The fact is that Linus is still in charge of the 800-pound gorilla that Linux has become for one simple reason: he does a great job. He makes good decisions, manages the process well, and generally keeps things moving along well enough that no one is really even tempted to seriously try to fork the kernel in a way that pushes Linus out of the picture.
True, but chances are there is somebody better. Linus got the ball rolling, but how much of that was due to personal awesomeness vs. pure luck and being in the right place at the right time? Is your crush from when you were 14 in high school really the right choice for marriage? Yeah, she was cute, intelligent, and funny, but so are a hundred million other people -- you aren't even looking around.
Linus doesn't suck enough to have been ousted yet, that's all.
What they are doing is creating a "derivative work" by altering the content of the HTML stream you are receiving from the website in order to make the pop-up appear. If you're browing foobar.net when one of these pop-ups appears, perhaps you should contact foobar.net and inform them that Comcast is altering the content of their website to produce an unauthorized derivative work. Nail them with copyright law.
That'll get shot down because it'll violate HIPAA regulations. Collecting medical data without sufficient privacy safeguards.
The ignorance is astounding. HIPAA only applies to medical professionals (and even then, only those who conduct business electronically, which in practice means everyone, but in theory, some backwoods doctor with a paper-only record keeping system, accepting only cash for payment, and no land line could POSSIBLY skirt the law)
There is no law in the United States which generally prohibits storage and processing of medical information. It does not apply to you or to a company making security devices.
I have one child (almost 10 months old.)
When working from home, I work in the same general area of the house as where she and my wife are playing, watching TV, reading, and doing all that other stuff you do with a baby. I change most of her diapers while I'm there, and sometimes I take a meeting or do work with her sitting on my lap happily burbling away and grabbing at the keyboard.
Hehehe. Oh, the ignorance of a new parent. Your kid is more like a blob than a child at this point. You haven't even hit the tough shit yet (no, that chronic sleep deprivation in the early months wasn't the hard part).
It makes me sad that someone could run up a $12K monthly electric bill without assigning an environmental cost to where that power was coming from.
Making assumptions is bad.
Before the Bitcoin operation got started, my friend's business was making biodiesel out of local rendered chicken fat and other things. He single-handedly supplied most of the farmers in a 5 mile radius with fuel for their farm operations. Prior to the biodiesel years, he ran the largest privately owned solar grid in the county, providing something like 25 kilowatts back to the grid, for a couple of years solid. He is the most environmentally obsessed person I know, and has certainly contributed far more to the local green economy than he has taken out of it.
The ultimate plan, which did not come to fruition (because of the rising difficulty of mining bitcoin, as I stated earlier), was to completely cover the 40 acre property with an array of solar panels, each panel having a custom GPU mining module installed on the underside -- open air cooling of the machines, solar power for the bitcoins, and it would have qualified as the largest solar array in the United States.
To think that he's some kind of forest-destroying air-blackening capitalist is about the furthest from the truth as you can get. Check your assumptions.
Dude, it's a farm. A fucking farm. 40 acres of red wheat.
He designed the rack system himself, along with custom power supply headers that he had fabbed at a nearby plant. He even tried to reduce equipment costs by hiring a Taiwanese company to produce custom GPU cards for him for $70 a piece (they didn't work very well).
Nobody does that shit anymore. It was like watching Steve Wozniak.
I don't get it. Are you assuming that anybody who spends $80k on something must be using someone else's money? You're a moron. This was his private project, which he managed to live off of for almost two years.
I don't know where the break even point is, but once you pass it, you can be very profitable. One of my friends built a custom "supercomputer" out of cheap motherboards and graphics cards for about $80k -- along with completely custom software to automatically tune clock speeds and fan rates in real time (all of which was written in bash script). At peak performance, his machine generated about $20k worth of bitcoin every month, which easily paid for the $12k monthly electric bill.
After a couple of difficulty-doublings, and the imminent arrival of the ASIC miners, this lost its profitability, and he went back to being a DBA... The machine is still out at the farm, cranking away. I think he'll disassemble it and part it out for cash in a month or two.
If you go back 40-50 years, you will find people your age that think people around 20 are "completely narcissistic, entitled, helpless, infantilized little shits who don't take responsibility for anything, and who believe they can maintain a state of perpetual childhood even as they raise their own children." However, when they were 20, people your thought THEY were "completely narcissistic, entitled, helpless, infantilized little shits who don't take responsibility for anything, and who believe they can maintain a state of perpetual childhood even as they raise their own children."
So you're saying it's a trend. That's supposed to make me feel better?
He doesn't want to buy one. It's his house and his money, he can buy what he likes.
No, what the guy said was that "no Windows computers allowed." Not that he doesn't buy Windows computers. With that sort of wording, it sounds less like a personal preference and more like oppression of the other residents of the home. Will this guy seriously kick out family members/roommates who choose to use Windows?
It's easy for dipshits to sit around bitching about what a computer "ought to be able to do." Oddly enough, none of them seem to be out there actually developing software which lives up to these expectations. I wonder why that is.
Apart from doctors who will understandably not want to be rendered obsolete (and they won't be -- the computer can only prescribe a treatment, not administer it!), the main objection that would be raised to this is "What if the computer makes a mistake?" For some reason, people are really bad at understanding that even though the computer might make a mistake, it will make mistakes at a lower rate than a human. This is the same problem with computer-driven automobiles. Yes, the computer might screw something up and kill somebody, but this should happen at a much lower rate than caused by human drivers -- however, because the rate isn't EXACTLY ZERO it is seen as completely unacceptable, even though this is an irrational position to maintain.
california doesn't focus on math. to graduate high school you need 2 years of math and 3 1/2 years of p.e.
It's not like after learning 2 years worth of math you just forget it instantly. But with P.E., if you stop exercising, your body goes straight back to tubby-land. You are comparing apples and oranges in a most ridiculous way.
Awesome. One less day per week I have to park my car in a less-than-convenient spot in order to leave room for a dour-looking gentleman to bitterly deposit a six-inch thick stack of garbage in my mailbox. Maybe soon I won't need the freaking mailbox at all.
I keep getting ads for bail bonds and DUII attorneys. This started happening lately -- the only change in my behavior lately is that I've stopped buying and drinking beer (reasons to do with the circumference of my waistline). While it's extremely disturbing, I wouldn't be surprised if that information -- somehow -- is filtering back to Internet ad companies. Who the fuck knows how they know, but they do.
That's correct. The only two possibilities in the universe are sing-a-longs or badly fitting three piece suits. You see, the universe is actually quite simple.
Sometimes I buy them even if I don't want to play them (seriously). I think I bought a Humble Bundle last year that I still haven't even looked at yet. Hell, I'm not even a gamer. But I'll spend money on non-DRM software just to encourage more of it.
Drugs aren't a victimless crime if the family has to deal with it.
Poor you, the weight of your family obligations must be absolutely crushing. Seriously, what kind of family do you live in, where if a family member is struggling your response is to have them thrown in jail?
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The fact is that Linus is still in charge of the 800-pound gorilla that Linux has become for one simple reason: he does a great job. He makes good decisions, manages the process well, and generally keeps things moving along well enough that no one is really even tempted to seriously try to fork the kernel in a way that pushes Linus out of the picture.
True, but chances are there is somebody better. Linus got the ball rolling, but how much of that was due to personal awesomeness vs. pure luck and being in the right place at the right time? Is your crush from when you were 14 in high school really the right choice for marriage? Yeah, she was cute, intelligent, and funny, but so are a hundred million other people -- you aren't even looking around.
Linus doesn't suck enough to have been ousted yet, that's all.
What they are doing is creating a "derivative work" by altering the content of the HTML stream you are receiving from the website in order to make the pop-up appear. If you're browing foobar.net when one of these pop-ups appears, perhaps you should contact foobar.net and inform them that Comcast is altering the content of their website to produce an unauthorized derivative work. Nail them with copyright law.
His heart is pure, so his free money scheme has no externalities? All righty, then.
Is YOUR net carbon emission negative? Have you ever bothered to even measure it?
That'll get shot down because it'll violate HIPAA regulations. Collecting medical data without sufficient privacy safeguards.
The ignorance is astounding. HIPAA only applies to medical professionals (and even then, only those who conduct business electronically, which in practice means everyone, but in theory, some backwoods doctor with a paper-only record keeping system, accepting only cash for payment, and no land line could POSSIBLY skirt the law)
There is no law in the United States which generally prohibits storage and processing of medical information. It does not apply to you or to a company making security devices.
I have one child (almost 10 months old.) When working from home, I work in the same general area of the house as where she and my wife are playing, watching TV, reading, and doing all that other stuff you do with a baby. I change most of her diapers while I'm there, and sometimes I take a meeting or do work with her sitting on my lap happily burbling away and grabbing at the keyboard.
Hehehe. Oh, the ignorance of a new parent. Your kid is more like a blob than a child at this point. You haven't even hit the tough shit yet (no, that chronic sleep deprivation in the early months wasn't the hard part).
It makes me sad that someone could run up a $12K monthly electric bill without assigning an environmental cost to where that power was coming from.
Making assumptions is bad.
Before the Bitcoin operation got started, my friend's business was making biodiesel out of local rendered chicken fat and other things. He single-handedly supplied most of the farmers in a 5 mile radius with fuel for their farm operations. Prior to the biodiesel years, he ran the largest privately owned solar grid in the county, providing something like 25 kilowatts back to the grid, for a couple of years solid. He is the most environmentally obsessed person I know, and has certainly contributed far more to the local green economy than he has taken out of it.
The ultimate plan, which did not come to fruition (because of the rising difficulty of mining bitcoin, as I stated earlier), was to completely cover the 40 acre property with an array of solar panels, each panel having a custom GPU mining module installed on the underside -- open air cooling of the machines, solar power for the bitcoins, and it would have qualified as the largest solar array in the United States.
To think that he's some kind of forest-destroying air-blackening capitalist is about the furthest from the truth as you can get. Check your assumptions.
Dude, it's a farm. A fucking farm. 40 acres of red wheat.
He designed the rack system himself, along with custom power supply headers that he had fabbed at a nearby plant. He even tried to reduce equipment costs by hiring a Taiwanese company to produce custom GPU cards for him for $70 a piece (they didn't work very well).
Nobody does that shit anymore. It was like watching Steve Wozniak.
I don't get it. Are you assuming that anybody who spends $80k on something must be using someone else's money? You're a moron. This was his private project, which he managed to live off of for almost two years.
Out of curiosity, what's your break even point?
I don't know where the break even point is, but once you pass it, you can be very profitable. One of my friends built a custom "supercomputer" out of cheap motherboards and graphics cards for about $80k -- along with completely custom software to automatically tune clock speeds and fan rates in real time (all of which was written in bash script). At peak performance, his machine generated about $20k worth of bitcoin every month, which easily paid for the $12k monthly electric bill.
After a couple of difficulty-doublings, and the imminent arrival of the ASIC miners, this lost its profitability, and he went back to being a DBA... The machine is still out at the farm, cranking away. I think he'll disassemble it and part it out for cash in a month or two.
If you go back 40-50 years, you will find people your age that think people around 20 are "completely narcissistic, entitled, helpless, infantilized little shits who don't take responsibility for anything, and who believe they can maintain a state of perpetual childhood even as they raise their own children." However, when they were 20, people your thought THEY were "completely narcissistic, entitled, helpless, infantilized little shits who don't take responsibility for anything, and who believe they can maintain a state of perpetual childhood even as they raise their own children."
So you're saying it's a trend. That's supposed to make me feel better?
He doesn't want to buy one. It's his house and his money, he can buy what he likes.
No, what the guy said was that "no Windows computers allowed." Not that he doesn't buy Windows computers. With that sort of wording, it sounds less like a personal preference and more like oppression of the other residents of the home. Will this guy seriously kick out family members/roommates who choose to use Windows?
Well, it just follows the pattern. Burglars don't burgle, they burglarize. Murderers don't murder, they murderize. Etc.
It's easy for dipshits to sit around bitching about what a computer "ought to be able to do." Oddly enough, none of them seem to be out there actually developing software which lives up to these expectations. I wonder why that is.
Apart from doctors who will understandably not want to be rendered obsolete (and they won't be -- the computer can only prescribe a treatment, not administer it!), the main objection that would be raised to this is "What if the computer makes a mistake?" For some reason, people are really bad at understanding that even though the computer might make a mistake, it will make mistakes at a lower rate than a human. This is the same problem with computer-driven automobiles. Yes, the computer might screw something up and kill somebody, but this should happen at a much lower rate than caused by human drivers -- however, because the rate isn't EXACTLY ZERO it is seen as completely unacceptable, even though this is an irrational position to maintain.
california doesn't focus on math. to graduate high school you need 2 years of math and 3 1/2 years of p.e.
It's not like after learning 2 years worth of math you just forget it instantly. But with P.E., if you stop exercising, your body goes straight back to tubby-land. You are comparing apples and oranges in a most ridiculous way.
Awesome. One less day per week I have to park my car in a less-than-convenient spot in order to leave room for a dour-looking gentleman to bitterly deposit a six-inch thick stack of garbage in my mailbox. Maybe soon I won't need the freaking mailbox at all.
I see a LOT of folks complaining on /., but I never hear about anyone actually DO anything.
People actually doing something about it don't have time to rant on Slashdot. How exactly do you expect to hear about it? Telepathy?
I keep getting ads for bail bonds and DUII attorneys. This started happening lately -- the only change in my behavior lately is that I've stopped buying and drinking beer (reasons to do with the circumference of my waistline). While it's extremely disturbing, I wouldn't be surprised if that information -- somehow -- is filtering back to Internet ad companies. Who the fuck knows how they know, but they do.
That's correct. The only two possibilities in the universe are sing-a-longs or badly fitting three piece suits. You see, the universe is actually quite simple.
Nikon is Japanese, retard.
Whoosh.
Back in your place, consumers. You barely even own what you own, much less have any right to fix it or pay someone else to fix it.
The economy of America will collapse unless you keep buying brand new stuff constantly. You don't want that, do you? Are you some kind of terrorist?
Anonymity brings out both the best and worst of society.
People who want to get around intrusive and ineffective government restrictions on private behavior are "the worst of society?" Why?
Sometimes I buy them even if I don't want to play them (seriously). I think I bought a Humble Bundle last year that I still haven't even looked at yet. Hell, I'm not even a gamer. But I'll spend money on non-DRM software just to encourage more of it.
Agreed. I only buy games from companies that enable online play through supernatural means.
Drugs aren't a victimless crime if the family has to deal with it.
Poor you, the weight of your family obligations must be absolutely crushing. Seriously, what kind of family do you live in, where if a family member is struggling your response is to have them thrown in jail?