Actually as part of E911 they probably are pretty much required to track your location all the time. Even if at minimum it is coarse grained location based off triangulation of the cell signal. If the phone's GPS is turned off it could likely take several minutes for it to obtain an accurate GPS fix if it was turned on only during a 911 call.
Coarse triangulation is and always will be outside of your control. It's the very nature of the technology, like knowing which CO a call is being routed to or which phone number made the call. With any cell, you can't get much more anonymous than that without it being turned off with the battery disconnected.
That being said, there's no requirement to "track your location all the time" and, until the availability of cloud-level mass storage and processing, there would be no need to. With one button they can get the current decibel values and hit recent logs and *calculate your location*, but live tracking had no purpose. Now, it *is* possible and *is* feasible and that's why we've got problems in 2016 that we didn't have in 2004.
They still can't get their ethernet port to actually work on LANs.
Not sure what you're talking about, mate. Mine works fine on a Gig-E switch. Between my PS4, PSTV, and two PS3's, that's a whole lot of PlayStation... They're all on Ethernet and they're all doing fine.
Next week: "If only they'd stayed on HEAD, we wouldn't be having these problems. Also, your kernel is old and you're not running the latest version of systemd. Why don't you just hook into our Jenkins server at http://carautopilot.github.io/ so you can get the latest nightly before you head out on the road each morning?"
2) apple has given us the 3.5 inch floppy, then removed it.
Floppy disks always sucked.
5.25" floppy disks sucked more.
It gave us the first easy to use networking (Appletalk over LocalTalk, or more likely PhoneNet) then removed it
Your history is wrong but more importantly all of these things sucked ass compared with IP.
Actually, no. Aside from being "chatty" (which was mostly fixed with Phase 2) AppleTalk and the various layers on top of it (AFP, NBP, ADSP) were a godsend for automated network setup and service discovery. LocalTalk transfer speeds were par for the day, and EtherTalk was acceptable as long as you had a decent AppleTalk network setup. Farallon deserves the credit for PhoneNet over the original cables, but dirt-cheap network cabling, often using your existing wiring, was phenomenal for its time.
Frankly, if you want to talk networking, talk about Open Transport. STREAMS was too complicated, and foreign to the sockets that eventually won out (programmers coming over from various other *nixes), but it was powerful and deserved more exposure and support than beleagured, mid-90s Apple could give it.
It has essentially removed all CDs from it's devices, so it gave us iTunes to rip CDs, now no CD player to rip from.
The problem with removing CDs nothing better came along to replace them. If you want to give someone a hard copy they can physically keep optical media is still king even though flash memory is cheap.
Apple really screwed up their 2000's optical media strategy... I remember it being something like 4-5 years after CD-R/RW was everywhere before they finally added it as an option on the iMacs. And yes, stamped optical is still the way to go unless you need solid state access and transfer times.
It dropped the Motorola 68000, then dropped PowerPC.
Because they sucked/couldn't keep up with the rest of the industry (e.g. Intel/AMD)
The 68K was amazing for the CISC era, but RISC writing was on the wall. The PowerPC was complex... it didn't suck. The problem was that IBM/Moto had plenty of customers looking for different features in the PPC silicon, and Apple's needs (high performance desktop; power-frugal laptops) weren't going to get the attention they needed. The G5 was a beast of a machine, and my old beige G3 ran circles around PII's of the day.
The headphone jack is long, the headphone jack is thick, and the headphone jack makes it harder to waterproof. Why is everyone complaining?
Because of the "problems" you mention, only waterproofing is a valid one. No one would complain if there was a "sport" model intended to be water resistant as opposed to just thinner. (Good marketing decision for Apple, BTW. They must have focus-grouped the sh*t out of this.) Otherwise, it's a standard port being tossed aside for cosmetic purposes.
There was holy hell raised when Apple ditched the legacy ports on the Bondi Blue iMac. Imagine what would have been said if Apple was getting a license fee on every USB product sold.
We have a fundamental problem: our brains tend to confuse the availability and prevalence of information about something with the prevalence of the underlying event.
Here, the news is reporting on every serious Tesla crash, creating the false impression that these are dangerous cars -- we aren't seeing a report on every Corolla crash, say.
I think the same bias plays into current panic over child abductions, which is distorting evaluation of common parenting strategies like letting kids play by themselves: it's not that abductions today are more common in the past, but that today's media is much better equipped to discover and wildly and rapidly disseminate information about them.
This goes doubly for gun violence (generally), mass shootings (specifically), and police shootings (aka, #BLM).
Most of the stats haven't changed much, and several have actually decreased. Media availability makes everything seem fresh and dynamic, with (IMHO) serious societal effects manifesting as a result.
The part that is more bothersome is they collected words from all her different parts. Her role as the ship computer vs. Lwaxana she is acting very differently. It would be a computer with some of the words expressed very emotionally with others very cut and dry. Also that doesn't say much for the show, because if they are going to have the computer say the same stuff, it sounds like a lot of recycled plots.
I'd have thought there'd have been more than enough vocal sampling for her just as the computer voice. Actually, I'm surprised the computer voice wasn't *already* in phonetic format just for all of the video games. Although she'd be able to give the most natural performance by recording the lines normally, I could see one of the (many, many, many) ST game developers realizing that they'd need TTS ability here and there (eg, player-generated names) and do the vocal data collection needed for it.
Anyway, Majel Roddenberry's voice is more or less holy ground for both the franchise and fans of the franchise.... I don't think they'd mess up something so sacrosanct.
I've been a fan of LG phones for quite a while... Started in the EnV days (and its predecessor w/ the same form factor), all through their higher-end feature phones, switched to an HTC ThunderBolt, hated it, and went back to LG for the G2, G3, and now G5.
It always surprises me when people talk about Samsung as if it's the only Android device manufacturer out there, the Intel to MS/Google's attack on Apple once again. LG phones are pretty great. They've always had good battery life (replaceable!), a quirky feature set, and absolutely excellent cameras. I do miss some of the manual long exposure times, but the equivalent generation LG G# phones simply blow the iPhone cameras out of the water. If you do low-light photography (San Diego's a dark city) or video (ie, DJ lighting inside of a nightclub), the LG's camera options are great.
Anyway... Guess I'll be upgrading again this fall. If you haven't tried an LG phone out, I recommend:)
I'm curious what OEMs you're aware of that even offer the *option* of an alternate or no OS coming preinstalled.
Given the Linux desktop penetration, I'm not surprised.
Most users are not interested in learning an entirely new OS that won't run the apps they're used to, so there is no reason for manufacturers to offer it.
It costs money to validate the software and provide support. An OEM can't just install the OS, boot it up, and call it good. If the expected sales of the Linux version don't cover the expected costs, then the product probably won't be offered with Linux.
Honestly, it often seems like Slashdot doesn't understand that most people don't care about their OS or about open software.
There's some very small companies that sell computers with Linux preinstalled such as System76, but their visibility among non-Linux enthusiasts is fairly negligible.
Why would anyone seek out a company that sells a product they don't want?
A typical user is not interested in Linux, so I expect him to be unfamiliar with OEMs who support Linux.
The awesome thing is that the GP would probably force a distro of Linux that uses systemd. Can I force Canonical or RedHat to give me a version of Linux (past EL6) that doesn't use systemd? 'Cause if so, I'd throw Sony under the bus for that:D
But which major non-Windows laptop brands other than Apple are sold in stores? It's not like you can walk into a Best Buy and walk out with a System76 laptop.
So when are the FEDs going to shut down the big Universities? $180,000 of student loans and NO JOB prospects... They aren't being honest either.
You do realize that you don't have to go to an expensive private university, right? Anyway if I go get a Harvard degree it will cost me a lot of money but I will in all likelihood have gotten an actual education along the way. You can argue that it isn't a good deal financially but you do get something at the end of the day. If you can't turn a Harvard degree into some sort of job you're doing it wrong. Comparing Harvard to or even a state university to ITT Tech is ridiculous.
Companies like ITT (I don't really think of them as schools) basically provide a near worthless degree which nobody respects and doesn't open doors. They do so knowing that a large percentage of their customers (students) will fail out. They exist to load credulous low income people with debt while failing to provide them a real education. They prey on people who probably really aren't the sort of people who are college material in the first place. College is great but it isn't the right path for everyone. Trade schools would serve many of them much better and there is a clear need for skilled trades.
What part of "ITT Technical Institute" makes you think that you're not going into a program that's functionally at the trade school level? In San Diego, it and Coleman College were both seen by anyone I've known as a way to learn functional skills in a given area. It's not a 4 year collegiate undergrad experience, and I can't see why anyone would think so.
People are ragging on "for-profit colleges" as some hideous evil, but whatever your experiences with Brightpoint, Ashford, or some other trendy places, ITT and Coleman have been around forever and shouldn't be lumped together with these.
But a degree in Liberal Arts won't get me me a high paying job
Basically nobody has a degree in Liberal Arts. Liberal arts is a group of subjects which includes many of the the STEM fields. If you have a degree in Physics you have a liberal arts degree. Same with Mathematics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Biology, plus of course Languages, Literature, Psychology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Arts, and more.
Some liberal arts degrees are more valuable to employers than others but saying that liberal arts as a whole = no jobs is to misunderstand the term.
The OP is probably confusing Liberal Arts with Liberal Studies. The former is a broad category of programs, the latter is exactly what it sounds like... Lots of courses in a lot of fields without digging much into any of them, and usually more in the humanities than the hard sciences.
Can't speak for your area, but in CA it seems like the most common profession for someone with a Liberal Studies degree is K-12 teacher (possibly with a specialization if they have additional study).
Look at all the sheep here, meekly accepting this as if OSS didn't exist.
You want to do something worthwhile? Demand that Apple demand of the App developers that if they stop updating their apps (in accordance to whatever the trendy Silicon Valley app-update timeframe is) Apple releases the source code for it that it will have required to be in escrow.
Presto... there you go. No more abandonware; OSS for custom user tweaking; healthier world; user/developer rights. RMS would be proud.
" If i drop a hammer on the ground, any other human can come along and use it, no matter how much time has passed."
No matter how much time has passed? I'm pretty sure that hammer will be practically useless after about 200 years of corrosion and UV exposure if it's made of iron.
Source: I do a lot of metal detecting and have dug up many things, usually tools from miners from the 1800s. Even in the desert, shit erodes and corrodes.
Well... then use better alloys. Some cultures built their shit to *last*, and I'm not even just talking about the D'ni.
Brave is trying to make a profitable business with certain things relating to security, but who in their right mind thinks that this is somehow an improvement upon or necessary for secure web browsing? 26,000 engineers? Grandma? Millennials? Who?
No one's thinking of security, or they'd have kiboshed this and a dozen other features, and put the enablement or access of them in a different binary that the OS mediates access to as needed.
Is there seriously not enough interest in a basic, capable web browser that doesn't implement this stuff that an OSS project can't be started up to focus on it?
Arguably "the same drug" will be the same everywhere, but if you're ordering online drugs from somewhere outside the FDA inspection regime, you don't know what your chances are that it's in fact actually "the same drug". Really, you don't know what you're getting.
That's still a possibility here, of course, but when a US producer commits fraud you'd better believe you'll have an army of lawyers beating down your door to help sue them into oblivion for it. Random Joe Bob's Discount Drug Shack operating in Singapore? Good luck.
Secondly, the FDA approval process itself. For better or for worse, having a complex medical trial and many layers of approval is probably better that not having it, in terms of protecting US consumers from unsafe foods and drugs. There's a fast-track process for promising drugs and devices to prevent dangerous conditions, and there registered experimental treatments, but all other things being equal, I'd prefer to know that some basic level of testing was done.
Drug IP process. People in other countries like to point out that they can purchase drugs for $20 that are charged higher processes here. You can thank us (the American Consumer) for that. Not everyone gets to be a marginal consumer.. and part of the reason we're paying full price for drugs is so that the market incentive allows those drugs to be developed in the first place. Without market incentive, you're only going to proceed in research as fast as centrally-planned authorities dictate you will. Or you're a charity, funded by donations.
The measure, sponsored by state Sen. Chapin Rose, R-Mahomet, and signed into law by Gov. Bruce Rauner late last week, comes as the maker of the EpiPen is facing increased scrutiny from the federal government over dramatic price increases for the lifesaving drug. The cost of a two-dose package of EpiPens, made by pharmaceutical company Mylan, jumped from less than $100 nine years ago to more than $600 in May, The Associated Press reported Wednesday.
While the timing is a coincidence, Rose said recent attention from Congress has attracted the public eye to an issue that was first brought to him by a rural fire protection district he represents.
If there's a justifiable reason for a price hike, it'll become public as well. Often there is. E.g., a critical component has restricted availability.
Unless they were retroactively classified for political reasons?
I'd say the chances are pretty slim on that, with all of the attention this is getting. There are dozens, if not hundreds of FBI and intelligence folks working on this, and surely any decision to classify (or re-classify) is getting multiple layers of review as a result of the fallout everyone knows it would be getting.
It does not count if Congress declares any one of these emails classified after the fact for political effect.
You're begging the question here. Information is classified based on the content, markings are irrelevant. There's explicitly statutory language that indicates that someone who Should Know that data involved Should Be classified should be treating it as classified, *regardless* of any markings or lack thereof.
Joe Blow on the street may not know that certain info is classified and might pass it along. The Secretary of State is expected to know that something is classified information and has a duty to take care of it responsible. That's something you're "read into" before you ever receive any clearance at all.
If the emails are considered classified retroactively, then someone in her position should have realized they contained sensitive data. Nothing is being classified "for political effect"... and if something is, then that's a scandal in and of itself.
I'm fine with a smart home. I'm old enough to remember the DAK Catalog and more-or-less drooling over the advanced dreams that the 80s could sell me. But I'm not fine any of this data leaving my property line, or with intelligence or non-aggregated usage telemetry resulting in internal details going over the wire for evaluation. Even if Alphabet "Did No Evil" (which it probably does), transmission to control on the outside opens me up for spying and makes me vulnerable to hack.
If a company wants to provide a means for me to control and automate my life, that's great. Do it with local control.
Agreed. I've used various Bluetooth headsets and car adapters and *none* of them seem to hold a candle to a regular audio cable.
For in-home speakers, I have a set (actually, more than a set... almost 5) old XtremeMac TangoAir speakers that use Apple's AirPlay for transmission, and the encoding that's done there is oodles better than even the best Bluetooth speaker quality I've heard.
And yeah, anyone who cared about audio quality enough to care about this was probably ripping at 320kbps 15 years ago. I've been slowly going through my CD collection upgrading them to ALAC lossless simply because disk space is beyond not an issue any more. I can't say I can hear the difference on most tracks, but definitely can't on a Bluetooth device.
We've had that discussion at work, with the pro-RHEL arguing that since prod machines would be RHEL, dev and test machines should be too in order to avoid bad surprises down the road. We even considered having the full-blown hardening done already in dev to make sure our friends the developers didn't do something that wouldn't work in prod. Turns out this approach causes a huge dip in productivity, especially when chasing those mysterious selinux denials. Exciting the first few times because you feel like you're "doing the rigth thing" but soon enough you get a nosebleed just by typing semanage. Ansible helps a lot, but only once you've got the right recipe.
Have you considered SELinux permissive everywhere in dev, with sign-off on QA? Depending on your app, of course, SELinux really does get easier once you get more and more used to it. audit2allow really is your friend... A day of letting your app run in permissive mode, then pipe the audit log for it through the policy maker and factor its needs into a coherent (and meaningful) policy, then just bump that as needed.
semanage can be a pain for booleans, but again it's mostly up-front work and then catching what breaks going forward.
Going back to the topic though, is there a significant difference between RHEL and CentOS in this regard? The vast majority of boxes I run on have been CentOS, but I typically dev on a RHEL in full SELinux enforcing and I haven't really noticed an issue except when there's a delay in a policy making it to the CentOS repos.
and run systemd as Just Another Daemon, akin to xinetd, supervise, or your cluster management software
This is dangerous, as systemd expects to be PID 1. If it expects to be the root of userspace and isn't, there will probably be complications.
It's better to build a distro without systemd entirely than to try to hack it into pieces without careful planning.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but it will be damn hard if it can be done. Already, the first attempt (by uselessd) has been abandoned.
Among the many other issues with systemd, this sticks out.
Literally the only thing unique about PID 1 as such (besides obviously being the first process launched) is that it gets ownership of double-forked / parentless processes and related signaling. There should be no reason that systemd couldn't function as a standard sub-process, albeit with the reduced functionality of not being able to track processes that intentionally escape.
The general unwillingness to gracefully fall back to reduced functionality when not all the Kool-Aid has been drunken is a fine example of EEE principles in action.
I think you summarize the problem pretty well. Systemd is a desktop solution for people who essentially want a Macbook.
What would be great? Having systemd only in specialized desktop distributions. Not on servers and not on desktop for power users. Even better: systemd should be a distribution itself, not be a part of other distributions. And it would also have the exclusivity of pulseaudio.
That's exactly it. If this were a GNOME or *DE toolkit focused on providing low level services for desktop environments, it'd be totally fine; well -- more accurately -- I wouldn't care. The problem is that by taking over PID 1 and forcing a paradigm shift or replacement of any number of other utilities, it's in the "core" instead of the desktop. It didn't need to be that way, and shouldn't have been. And if it *had* to, then it should have been a component of a new, forked, modern desktop distribution.
Instead it sucked up Fedora under subterfuge ("It'll be just like the upstart switch except 5.6% awesomer!") and Debian thanks to the bandwagon effect breaking a tie.
CentOS and RHEL are functionally identical, except for the 12-36h delay in updates and the specifics of update channel management.
That was one of the points I (GP) was trying to make... Looking at just official RHEL subscription numbers doesn't take into account the broader "RedHat-led ecosystem" of releases which are broadly (if not ABI) compatible.
Many orgs pay for RHEL licenses on mission-critical boxes and a sample of their own servers, then run CentOS on fleet boxes. OTOH, people working in densely virtualized environments might consider the hypervisors the critical ones and be willing to pay for them, getting unlimited VM guest licenses for free with it.
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Actually, there are weapons on the ISS too, if inadvertently.
The Soyuz capsule has a 9mm on-board for use in self defense if it lands in the middle of, say, a lake surrounded by somewhere with wild animals.
But the human minds kept rejecting it. Entire crops were lost.
So B-of-A was formed instead.
Actually as part of E911 they probably are pretty much required to track your location all the time. Even if at minimum it is coarse grained location based off triangulation of the cell signal. If the phone's GPS is turned off it could likely take several minutes for it to obtain an accurate GPS fix if it was turned on only during a 911 call.
Coarse triangulation is and always will be outside of your control. It's the very nature of the technology, like knowing which CO a call is being routed to or which phone number made the call. With any cell, you can't get much more anonymous than that without it being turned off with the battery disconnected.
That being said, there's no requirement to "track your location all the time" and, until the availability of cloud-level mass storage and processing, there would be no need to. With one button they can get the current decibel values and hit recent logs and *calculate your location*, but live tracking had no purpose. Now, it *is* possible and *is* feasible and that's why we've got problems in 2016 that we didn't have in 2004.
They still can't get their ethernet port to actually work on LANs.
Not sure what you're talking about, mate. Mine works fine on a Gig-E switch. Between my PS4, PSTV, and two PS3's, that's a whole lot of PlayStation... They're all on Ethernet and they're all doing fine.
Next week: "If only they'd stayed on HEAD, we wouldn't be having these problems. Also, your kernel is old and you're not running the latest version of systemd. Why don't you just hook into our Jenkins server at http://carautopilot.github.io/ so you can get the latest nightly before you head out on the road each morning?"
2) apple has given us the 3.5 inch floppy, then removed it.
Floppy disks always sucked.
5.25" floppy disks sucked more.
It gave us the first easy to use networking (Appletalk over LocalTalk, or more likely PhoneNet) then removed it
Your history is wrong but more importantly all of these things sucked ass compared with IP.
Actually, no. Aside from being "chatty" (which was mostly fixed with Phase 2) AppleTalk and the various layers on top of it (AFP, NBP, ADSP) were a godsend for automated network setup and service discovery. LocalTalk transfer speeds were par for the day, and EtherTalk was acceptable as long as you had a decent AppleTalk network setup. Farallon deserves the credit for PhoneNet over the original cables, but dirt-cheap network cabling, often using your existing wiring, was phenomenal for its time.
Frankly, if you want to talk networking, talk about Open Transport. STREAMS was too complicated, and foreign to the sockets that eventually won out (programmers coming over from various other *nixes), but it was powerful and deserved more exposure and support than beleagured, mid-90s Apple could give it.
It has essentially removed all CDs from it's devices, so it gave us iTunes to rip CDs, now no CD player to rip from.
The problem with removing CDs nothing better came along to replace them. If you want to give someone a hard copy they can physically keep optical media is still king even though flash memory is cheap.
Apple really screwed up their 2000's optical media strategy... I remember it being something like 4-5 years after CD-R/RW was everywhere before they finally added it as an option on the iMacs. And yes, stamped optical is still the way to go unless you need solid state access and transfer times.
It dropped the Motorola 68000, then dropped PowerPC.
Because they sucked/couldn't keep up with the rest of the industry (e.g. Intel/AMD)
The 68K was amazing for the CISC era, but RISC writing was on the wall. The PowerPC was complex... it didn't suck. The problem was that IBM/Moto had plenty of customers looking for different features in the PPC silicon, and Apple's needs (high performance desktop; power-frugal laptops) weren't going to get the attention they needed. The G5 was a beast of a machine, and my old beige G3 ran circles around PII's of the day.
The headphone jack is long, the headphone jack is thick, and the headphone jack makes it harder to waterproof. Why is everyone complaining?
Because of the "problems" you mention, only waterproofing is a valid one. No one would complain if there was a "sport" model intended to be water resistant as opposed to just thinner. (Good marketing decision for Apple, BTW. They must have focus-grouped the sh*t out of this.) Otherwise, it's a standard port being tossed aside for cosmetic purposes.
There was holy hell raised when Apple ditched the legacy ports on the Bondi Blue iMac. Imagine what would have been said if Apple was getting a license fee on every USB product sold.
We have a fundamental problem: our brains tend to confuse the availability and prevalence of information about something with the prevalence of the underlying event.
Here, the news is reporting on every serious Tesla crash, creating the false impression that these are dangerous cars -- we aren't seeing a report on every Corolla crash, say.
I think the same bias plays into current panic over child abductions, which is distorting evaluation of common parenting strategies like letting kids play by themselves: it's not that abductions today are more common in the past, but that today's media is much better equipped to discover and wildly and rapidly disseminate information about them.
This goes doubly for gun violence (generally), mass shootings (specifically), and police shootings (aka, #BLM).
Most of the stats haven't changed much, and several have actually decreased. Media availability makes everything seem fresh and dynamic, with (IMHO) serious societal effects manifesting as a result.
The part that is more bothersome is they collected words from all her different parts.
Her role as the ship computer vs. Lwaxana she is acting very differently. It would be a computer with some of the words expressed very emotionally with others very cut and dry. Also that doesn't say much for the show, because if they are going to have the computer say the same stuff, it sounds like a lot of recycled plots.
I'd have thought there'd have been more than enough vocal sampling for her just as the computer voice. Actually, I'm surprised the computer voice wasn't *already* in phonetic format just for all of the video games. Although she'd be able to give the most natural performance by recording the lines normally, I could see one of the (many, many, many) ST game developers realizing that they'd need TTS ability here and there (eg, player-generated names) and do the vocal data collection needed for it.
Anyway, Majel Roddenberry's voice is more or less holy ground for both the franchise and fans of the franchise.... I don't think they'd mess up something so sacrosanct.
I've been a fan of LG phones for quite a while... Started in the EnV days (and its predecessor w/ the same form factor), all through their higher-end feature phones, switched to an HTC ThunderBolt, hated it, and went back to LG for the G2, G3, and now G5.
It always surprises me when people talk about Samsung as if it's the only Android device manufacturer out there, the Intel to MS/Google's attack on Apple once again. LG phones are pretty great. They've always had good battery life (replaceable!), a quirky feature set, and absolutely excellent cameras. I do miss some of the manual long exposure times, but the equivalent generation LG G# phones simply blow the iPhone cameras out of the water. If you do low-light photography (San Diego's a dark city) or video (ie, DJ lighting inside of a nightclub), the LG's camera options are great.
Anyway... Guess I'll be upgrading again this fall. If you haven't tried an LG phone out, I recommend :)
I'm curious what OEMs you're aware of that even offer the *option* of an alternate or no OS coming preinstalled.
Given the Linux desktop penetration, I'm not surprised.
Most users are not interested in learning an entirely new OS that won't run the apps they're used to, so there is no reason for manufacturers to offer it.
It costs money to validate the software and provide support. An OEM can't just install the OS, boot it up, and call it good. If the expected sales of the Linux version don't cover the expected costs, then the product probably won't be offered with Linux.
Honestly, it often seems like Slashdot doesn't understand that most people don't care about their OS or about open software.
There's some very small companies that sell computers with Linux preinstalled such as System76, but their visibility among non-Linux enthusiasts is fairly negligible.
Why would anyone seek out a company that sells a product they don't want?
A typical user is not interested in Linux, so I expect him to be unfamiliar with OEMs who support Linux.
The awesome thing is that the GP would probably force a distro of Linux that uses systemd. Can I force Canonical or RedHat to give me a version of Linux (past EL6) that doesn't use systemd? 'Cause if so, I'd throw Sony under the bus for that :D
But which major non-Windows laptop brands other than Apple are sold in stores? It's not like you can walk into a Best Buy and walk out with a System76 laptop.
Steve Kahng, is that you?
So when are the FEDs going to shut down the big Universities? $180,000 of student loans and NO JOB prospects ... They aren't being honest either.
You do realize that you don't have to go to an expensive private university, right? Anyway if I go get a Harvard degree it will cost me a lot of money but I will in all likelihood have gotten an actual education along the way. You can argue that it isn't a good deal financially but you do get something at the end of the day. If you can't turn a Harvard degree into some sort of job you're doing it wrong. Comparing Harvard to or even a state university to ITT Tech is ridiculous.
Companies like ITT (I don't really think of them as schools) basically provide a near worthless degree which nobody respects and doesn't open doors. They do so knowing that a large percentage of their customers (students) will fail out. They exist to load credulous low income people with debt while failing to provide them a real education. They prey on people who probably really aren't the sort of people who are college material in the first place. College is great but it isn't the right path for everyone. Trade schools would serve many of them much better and there is a clear need for skilled trades.
What part of "ITT Technical Institute" makes you think that you're not going into a program that's functionally at the trade school level? In San Diego, it and Coleman College were both seen by anyone I've known as a way to learn functional skills in a given area. It's not a 4 year collegiate undergrad experience, and I can't see why anyone would think so.
People are ragging on "for-profit colleges" as some hideous evil, but whatever your experiences with Brightpoint, Ashford, or some other trendy places, ITT and Coleman have been around forever and shouldn't be lumped together with these.
But a degree in Liberal Arts won't get me me a high paying job
Basically nobody has a degree in Liberal Arts. Liberal arts is a group of subjects which includes many of the the STEM fields. If you have a degree in Physics you have a liberal arts degree. Same with Mathematics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Biology, plus of course Languages, Literature, Psychology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Arts, and more.
Some liberal arts degrees are more valuable to employers than others but saying that liberal arts as a whole = no jobs is to misunderstand the term.
The OP is probably confusing Liberal Arts with Liberal Studies. The former is a broad category of programs, the latter is exactly what it sounds like... Lots of courses in a lot of fields without digging much into any of them, and usually more in the humanities than the hard sciences.
Can't speak for your area, but in CA it seems like the most common profession for someone with a Liberal Studies degree is K-12 teacher (possibly with a specialization if they have additional study).
Look at all the sheep here, meekly accepting this as if OSS didn't exist.
You want to do something worthwhile? Demand that Apple demand of the App developers that if they stop updating their apps (in accordance to whatever the trendy Silicon Valley app-update timeframe is) Apple releases the source code for it that it will have required to be in escrow.
Presto... there you go. No more abandonware; OSS for custom user tweaking; healthier world; user/developer rights. RMS would be proud.
" If i drop a hammer on the ground, any other human can come along and use it, no matter how much time has passed."
No matter how much time has passed? I'm pretty sure that hammer will be practically useless after about 200 years of corrosion and UV exposure if it's made of iron.
Source: I do a lot of metal detecting and have dug up many things, usually tools from miners from the 1800s. Even in the desert, shit erodes and corrodes.
Well... then use better alloys. Some cultures built their shit to *last*, and I'm not even just talking about the D'ni.
(And "What does God need with a starship?")
Brave is trying to make a profitable business with certain things relating to security, but who in their right mind thinks that this is somehow an improvement upon or necessary for secure web browsing? 26,000 engineers? Grandma? Millennials? Who?
No one's thinking of security, or they'd have kiboshed this and a dozen other features, and put the enablement or access of them in a different binary that the OS mediates access to as needed.
Is there seriously not enough interest in a basic, capable web browser that doesn't implement this stuff that an OSS project can't be started up to focus on it?
Arguably "the same drug" will be the same everywhere, but if you're ordering online drugs from somewhere outside the FDA inspection regime, you don't know what your chances are that it's in fact actually "the same drug". Really, you don't know what you're getting.
That's still a possibility here, of course, but when a US producer commits fraud you'd better believe you'll have an army of lawyers beating down your door to help sue them into oblivion for it. Random Joe Bob's Discount Drug Shack operating in Singapore? Good luck.
Secondly, the FDA approval process itself. For better or for worse, having a complex medical trial and many layers of approval is probably better that not having it, in terms of protecting US consumers from unsafe foods and drugs. There's a fast-track process for promising drugs and devices to prevent dangerous conditions, and there registered experimental treatments, but all other things being equal, I'd prefer to know that some basic level of testing was done.
Drug IP process. People in other countries like to point out that they can purchase drugs for $20 that are charged higher processes here. You can thank us (the American Consumer) for that. Not everyone gets to be a marginal consumer.. and part of the reason we're paying full price for drugs is so that the market incentive allows those drugs to be developed in the first place. Without market incentive, you're only going to proceed in research as fast as centrally-planned authorities dictate you will. Or you're a charity, funded by donations.
None of those things directly deal with device IP, but to be honest cases like this (where someone is being an abject douchebag) are rare, and tend to get discovered, highlighted, and corrected through social pressure. (EMT's have been talking about the cost of EpiPens for years, and there were already initiatives under way to allow EMT's to inject Epi directly: http://thesouthern.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/new-state-law-will-allow-emts-to-inject-epinephrine/article_42dbddd9-a035-509b-b99a-7f720c7411b0.html
If there's a justifiable reason for a price hike, it'll become public as well. Often there is. E.g., a critical component has restricted availability.
Unless they were retroactively classified for political reasons?
I'd say the chances are pretty slim on that, with all of the attention this is getting. There are dozens, if not hundreds of FBI and intelligence folks working on this, and surely any decision to classify (or re-classify) is getting multiple layers of review as a result of the fallout everyone knows it would be getting.
It does not count if Congress declares any one of these emails classified after the fact for political effect.
You're begging the question here. Information is classified based on the content, markings are irrelevant. There's explicitly statutory language that indicates that someone who Should Know that data involved Should Be classified should be treating it as classified, *regardless* of any markings or lack thereof.
Joe Blow on the street may not know that certain info is classified and might pass it along. The Secretary of State is expected to know that something is classified information and has a duty to take care of it responsible. That's something you're "read into" before you ever receive any clearance at all.
If the emails are considered classified retroactively, then someone in her position should have realized they contained sensitive data. Nothing is being classified "for political effect"... and if something is, then that's a scandal in and of itself.
I'm fine with a smart home. I'm old enough to remember the DAK Catalog and more-or-less drooling over the advanced dreams that the 80s could sell me. But I'm not fine any of this data leaving my property line, or with intelligence or non-aggregated usage telemetry resulting in internal details going over the wire for evaluation. Even if Alphabet "Did No Evil" (which it probably does), transmission to control on the outside opens me up for spying and makes me vulnerable to hack.
If a company wants to provide a means for me to control and automate my life, that's great. Do it with local control.
Agreed. I've used various Bluetooth headsets and car adapters and *none* of them seem to hold a candle to a regular audio cable.
For in-home speakers, I have a set (actually, more than a set... almost 5) old XtremeMac TangoAir speakers that use Apple's AirPlay for transmission, and the encoding that's done there is oodles better than even the best Bluetooth speaker quality I've heard.
And yeah, anyone who cared about audio quality enough to care about this was probably ripping at 320kbps 15 years ago. I've been slowly going through my CD collection upgrading them to ALAC lossless simply because disk space is beyond not an issue any more. I can't say I can hear the difference on most tracks, but definitely can't on a Bluetooth device.
We've had that discussion at work, with the pro-RHEL arguing that since prod machines would be RHEL, dev and test machines should be too in order to avoid bad surprises down the road. We even considered having the full-blown hardening done already in dev to make sure our friends the developers didn't do something that wouldn't work in prod. Turns out this approach causes a huge dip in productivity, especially when chasing those mysterious selinux denials. Exciting the first few times because you feel like you're "doing the rigth thing" but soon enough you get a nosebleed just by typing semanage. Ansible helps a lot, but only once you've got the right recipe.
Have you considered SELinux permissive everywhere in dev, with sign-off on QA? Depending on your app, of course, SELinux really does get easier once you get more and more used to it. audit2allow really is your friend... A day of letting your app run in permissive mode, then pipe the audit log for it through the policy maker and factor its needs into a coherent (and meaningful) policy, then just bump that as needed.
semanage can be a pain for booleans, but again it's mostly up-front work and then catching what breaks going forward.
Going back to the topic though, is there a significant difference between RHEL and CentOS in this regard? The vast majority of boxes I run on have been CentOS, but I typically dev on a RHEL in full SELinux enforcing and I haven't really noticed an issue except when there's a delay in a policy making it to the CentOS repos.
and run systemd as Just Another Daemon, akin to xinetd, supervise, or your cluster management software
This is dangerous, as systemd expects to be PID 1. If it expects to be the root of userspace and isn't, there will probably be complications.
It's better to build a distro without systemd entirely than to try to hack it into pieces without careful planning.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but it will be damn hard if it can be done. Already, the first attempt (by uselessd) has been abandoned.
Among the many other issues with systemd, this sticks out.
Literally the only thing unique about PID 1 as such (besides obviously being the first process launched) is that it gets ownership of double-forked / parentless processes and related signaling. There should be no reason that systemd couldn't function as a standard sub-process, albeit with the reduced functionality of not being able to track processes that intentionally escape.
The general unwillingness to gracefully fall back to reduced functionality when not all the Kool-Aid has been drunken is a fine example of EEE principles in action.
I think you summarize the problem pretty well. Systemd is a desktop solution for people who essentially want a Macbook.
What would be great? Having systemd only in specialized desktop distributions. Not on servers and not on desktop for power users. Even better: systemd should be a distribution itself, not be a part of other distributions. And it would also have the exclusivity of pulseaudio.
That's exactly it. If this were a GNOME or *DE toolkit focused on providing low level services for desktop environments, it'd be totally fine; well -- more accurately -- I wouldn't care. The problem is that by taking over PID 1 and forcing a paradigm shift or replacement of any number of other utilities, it's in the "core" instead of the desktop. It didn't need to be that way, and shouldn't have been. And if it *had* to, then it should have been a component of a new, forked, modern desktop distribution.
Instead it sucked up Fedora under subterfuge ("It'll be just like the upstart switch except 5.6% awesomer!") and Debian thanks to the bandwagon effect breaking a tie.
CentOS and RHEL are functionally identical, except for the 12-36h delay in updates and the specifics of update channel management.
That was one of the points I (GP) was trying to make... Looking at just official RHEL subscription numbers doesn't take into account the broader "RedHat-led ecosystem" of releases which are broadly (if not ABI) compatible.
Many orgs pay for RHEL licenses on mission-critical boxes and a sample of their own servers, then run CentOS on fleet boxes. OTOH, people working in densely virtualized environments might consider the hypervisors the critical ones and be willing to pay for them, getting unlimited VM guest licenses for free with it.