There does seem to be an aggressive, emotionally manipulative campaign by Red Hat to get it into every major distribution and that seems to unfortunately have succeeded.
It seems like there are quite a few *within* Red Hat that aren't all that pleased with the way things have been progressing, hence the "hey, let's give a voice to sysadmins in the direction of Fedora as well!" initiative.
Systemd has the ability to do pretty neat things, but so do lots of other init systems and process controllers. The only thing that feels really head-and-shoulders above whatever else was available was cgroup integration for services. Is that worth all of the other breakage, the DJB-level asinine-ness of the developers, and the lack of flexibility caused by removing shell scripts from the boot process? Doesn't feel like it.
If the load you are moving to the cloud doesn't keep a system busy then renting may be a better option -- empty machines are expensive.
Well, maybe. Physical space is obviously a fixed cost unless you feel like building a Japanese Car Park-style for moving Dell systems around, but you'd be surprised how well modern systems can be power efficient when they're told to.
The basics of suspending HW, using c-states, reducing CPU speed, etc, can take out a significant chunk of your power (and cooling, if applicable) cost. If you're virtualizing (even just Xen/VMWare), there are even more savings to be had.
You'd be surprised how many people hard code power settings to "Max Performance" at initial boot time and never go back to evaluate whether that's always really needed.
Religious belief is one thing, forcing that belief upon other by supporting (or not) a policy change that would ostracize a non trivial part of the population is another.
... You mean that self-evidently hellacious period known as 2007? (a/k/a the "status quo" at the time the proposition was written and submitted)
The difference is that "AllahIsFalse" is political/opinion speech, while "MegaUpload" is engaging in commerce and/or barely free speech.
Yes, Free Speech is Free Speech.... but political speech -- ie, "meta speech" -- is more deserving and in more need of free speech protections than your torrents are.
What is the chance of Microsoft, Google, and Apple getting together and agreeing on anything?
Well, they agreed that Obama needed an attempted ear-full from them about the NSA spying...
Senior executives from AT&T, Yahoo, Apple, Netflix, Twitter, Google, Microsoft and Facebook were among those in attendance.
“We appreciated the opportunity to share directly with the President our principles on government surveillance that we released last week and we urged him to move aggressively on reform,” the technology firms said in a joint statement after the meeting.
Circle-Vision 360 is a film technique, refined by The Walt Disney Company, that uses nine cameras for nine huge screens arranged in a circle. The cameras are usually mounted on top of an automobile for scenes through cities and highways, while films such as The Timekeeper use a static camera and many CGI effects. The first film was America the Beautiful (1955 version) in the Circarama theater, which would eventually become Circle-Vision theater in 1967.
Google needs to put in a hard-wired LED that's on when recording. Yes, you'll look like a Borg when you're recording, but that's a small price to pay for others' comfort.
Can people still obscure it? Yes... but if I see someone walking around with a Google Glass *and* a bit of black electrical tape over the front, I know I'm dealing with a complete d-bag and can treat them accordingly.
Doesn't CentOS get patches 10 years after release?
Don't be a tool. CentOS "gets" patches by recompiling and redistributing a product whose said patches are delivered via PAID subscription -- exactly the model that would probably need to be used by Microsoft if they continue support. CentOS is a free lunch riding on RedHat. That's part and parcel for the open source movement, but you can't expect a closed source, enterprise company to do the same thing.
Furthermore, even RHEL didn't decide on a 10-year cycle until relatively recently... and for EL3 and EL4, the final 3 years (Extended Life Cycle Support) are an additional charge, and only supported hardware-wise in Virtualized environments.
Good luck with that on anything approaching modern transmission speeds. Can a consumer grade LED actually switch fast enough to leak 56kbps, much less 50mbps?
For the exact same mail volume on the exact same hardware Postfix runs about a third the load average of qmail.
Then you were probably doing it wrong.
NB: Qmail is a PITA to set up, and configure, and generally understand... but when tuned and customized properly it's incredibly efficient. Even more efficient if you're on underpowered hardware.
Schrager says that this strategy has already been proven to work in other parts of the world. China has been on one time zone since 1949, despite naturally spanning five time zones and in 1983, Alaska, which naturally spans four time zones, moved most of the state to a single time zone.
China is a Totalitarian Communist society where you can be shot if you complain too much... especially if you're a poor peasant who, working on the land, might be most affected by the inconvenience of a wide divergence between local time and "sun time" and isn't a great fan of Mao.
Alaska is composed of few cities and 100,000's of square miles of (mostly) uninhabited back country... the Unorganized Borough. Moose and caribou don't care about your lack of DST, man. They follow the sun anyway.
Even when it comes to something as basic, and apparently as simple and straightforward, as the question of who shut down the federal government, there are diametrically opposite answers, depending on whether you talk to Democrats or to Republicans.
Guess what? The House gets to make the budget. If the Senate doesn't like it, political negotiations aside, they can't even submit a bill of their own to start the process. And the President, of course, certainly can't.
I don't see this directly working for translation into non-lexographically swappable languages (eg, English -> Japanese) very well, because even if you have the idea space mapped out, you'd still have to build up the proper grammar, and you'll need rules for that.
That being said.... Holy cow, you have the idea space mapped out! That's a big chunk of Natural Language Processing and an important step in AI development.... Understanding a sentence emergently in terms of fuzzy concepts that are an internal and internally created symbol of what's "going on", not just using a dictionary and CYC-like rules to figure it out, seems like a useful building block, but maybe I'm wrong.
Very cool stuff. Makes me want to go back and finish that CS degree after all.
I think you misunderstand the premise. You can trust code you yourself write to not be concealing deliberately malicious intent. It still maybe INSECURE, but you can at least be sure of the INTENT of code you write yourself. This isn't the case with third party software.
3 - Get processors from your countries "enemy" Russians dont use Intel processors for their KGB and Government operations. If they did they would be the biggest morons on the planet. Find out what they use and try to source them through the black or grey market channels.
If your prescription for fixing the issues of low security is to trust the Russian (nee Soviet) Government, I'm pretty sure you're doing it wrong.
I was born in late 1979, I'm not part of generation Y so I don't need to follow such advice. I'm happy not having born a few months later.
I was born in mid-1979 and feel the same tug. Watching the c/o 1996 enter college and then watching the next 4++++ years of incoming freshmen, I saw the cultural shift first-hand. We truly were the last before the big change hit.
We may only be borderline Gen-X, but we're certainly not Gen-Y...
However I want this more to be the case for large company's who do shit on PURPOSE and with intent and not small start-ups...
This doesn't make sense. The larger a company is and the more persons in decision-making roles throughout the org, the *less* likely a company is acting with sufficient imperative to justify piercing the corporate veil.
In reality, you seem to just be saying that Big Companies are Evil. Sorry, that doesn't fly. Limited Liability, and Corporate Personhood generally, are both there for reasons.
It turns out NASA did a report way back in 1975 describing what it would take to build a Stanford torus space station like the one in the movie: rotation for artificial gravity, a separate shield for radiation and debris, the ability to mine materials from astroids or possibly the moon, and $190.8 billion in 1975 dollars (the equivalent of $828.11 billion today).
Only $828 Billion? Didn't we borrow that much from China this year? Seriously... let's do this.
It's not in the Public Consciousness, agreed.... however it's in the Military Consciousness a great deal, especially the USMC. It's almost literally the bible for current officer training methodologies... so much so that "he's an Ender" is a phrase you'll hear to describe someone here and there.
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There... FTFY.
There does seem to be an aggressive, emotionally manipulative campaign by Red Hat to get it into every major distribution and that seems to unfortunately have succeeded.
It seems like there are quite a few *within* Red Hat that aren't all that pleased with the way things have been progressing, hence the "hey, let's give a voice to sysadmins in the direction of Fedora as well!" initiative.
Systemd has the ability to do pretty neat things, but so do lots of other init systems and process controllers. The only thing that feels really head-and-shoulders above whatever else was available was cgroup integration for services. Is that worth all of the other breakage, the DJB-level asinine-ness of the developers, and the lack of flexibility caused by removing shell scripts from the boot process? Doesn't feel like it.
If the load you are moving to the cloud doesn't keep a system busy then renting may be a better option -- empty machines are expensive.
Well, maybe. Physical space is obviously a fixed cost unless you feel like building a Japanese Car Park-style for moving Dell systems around, but you'd be surprised how well modern systems can be power efficient when they're told to.
The basics of suspending HW, using c-states, reducing CPU speed, etc, can take out a significant chunk of your power (and cooling, if applicable) cost. If you're virtualizing (even just Xen/VMWare), there are even more savings to be had.
You'd be surprised how many people hard code power settings to "Max Performance" at initial boot time and never go back to evaluate whether that's always really needed.
The difference is that "AllahIsFalse" is political/opinion speech, while "MegaUpload" is engaging in commerce and/or barely free speech.
Yes, Free Speech is Free Speech.... but political speech -- ie, "meta speech" -- is more deserving and in more need of free speech protections than your torrents are.
Well, they agreed that Obama needed an attempted ear-full from them about the NSA spying...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/tech-executives-to-obama-nsa-spying-revelations-are-threatening-business/2013/12/17/6569b226-6734-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html
A looooong time ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle-Vision_360%C2%B0
Google needs to put in a hard-wired LED that's on when recording. Yes, you'll look like a Borg when you're recording, but that's a small price to pay for others' comfort.
Can people still obscure it? Yes... but if I see someone walking around with a Google Glass *and* a bit of black electrical tape over the front, I know I'm dealing with a complete d-bag and can treat them accordingly.
If Obama really wanted to 'press for the need', he'd propose a $1 trillion fund.
Much less than the Iraq War's costs over 10 years.
FTFY.
Also... much less than we were borrowing from (mostly) China on an annual basis 2-4 years ago.
Because that's exactly what I want... to live on emailing people creepy messages from the Wired.
Been there, done that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
Not to get all Stars and Stripes, but I trust Communist, Totalitarian dictatorships to write secure OS's about as far as I can throw them.
" Look at that UID. You must be like, 35! Yuck, old people!"
I must be ancient.
Ehh... not ancient enough :)
Don't be a tool. CentOS "gets" patches by recompiling and redistributing a product whose said patches are delivered via PAID subscription -- exactly the model that would probably need to be used by Microsoft if they continue support. CentOS is a free lunch riding on RedHat. That's part and parcel for the open source movement, but you can't expect a closed source, enterprise company to do the same thing.
Furthermore, even RHEL didn't decide on a 10-year cycle until relatively recently... and for EL3 and EL4, the final 3 years (Extended Life Cycle Support) are an additional charge, and only supported hardware-wise in Virtualized environments.
https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/errata/
Yep!
As the saying goes.... "You must be new here" ;)
http://slashdot.org/story/02/03/06/1221224/led-lights-friend-or-foe
Then you were probably doing it wrong.
NB: Qmail is a PITA to set up, and configure, and generally understand... but when tuned and customized properly it's incredibly efficient. Even more efficient if you're on underpowered hardware.
China is a Totalitarian Communist society where you can be shot if you complain too much... especially if you're a poor peasant who, working on the land, might be most affected by the inconvenience of a wide divergence between local time and "sun time" and isn't a great fan of Mao.
Alaska is composed of few cities and 100,000's of square miles of (mostly) uninhabited back country... the Unorganized Borough. Moose and caribou don't care about your lack of DST, man. They follow the sun anyway.
Please try again.
Actually, they did. The (conservative) House passed a budget; the (liberal) Senate didn't. The (liberal) President stated he wouldn't sign it.
As Thomas Sowell put it:
Guess what? The House gets to make the budget. If the Senate doesn't like it, political negotiations aside, they can't even submit a bill of their own to start the process. And the President, of course, certainly can't.
Reminds me a lot of the Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies work that Hofstadter led back in the day.
I don't see this directly working for translation into non-lexographically swappable languages (eg, English -> Japanese) very well, because even if you have the idea space mapped out, you'd still have to build up the proper grammar, and you'll need rules for that.
That being said.... Holy cow, you have the idea space mapped out! That's a big chunk of Natural Language Processing and an important step in AI development. ... Understanding a sentence emergently in terms of fuzzy concepts that are an internal and internally created symbol of what's "going on", not just using a dictionary and CYC-like rules to figure it out, seems like a useful building block, but maybe I'm wrong.
Very cool stuff. Makes me want to go back and finish that CS degree after all.
Not if you're Tyler Durden, you insensitive clod!
If your prescription for fixing the issues of low security is to trust the Russian (nee Soviet) Government, I'm pretty sure you're doing it wrong.
I was born in mid-1979 and feel the same tug. Watching the c/o 1996 enter college and then watching the next 4++++ years of incoming freshmen, I saw the cultural shift first-hand. We truly were the last before the big change hit.
We may only be borderline Gen-X, but we're certainly not Gen-Y...
This doesn't make sense. The larger a company is and the more persons in decision-making roles throughout the org, the *less* likely a company is acting with sufficient imperative to justify piercing the corporate veil.
In reality, you seem to just be saying that Big Companies are Evil. Sorry, that doesn't fly. Limited Liability, and Corporate Personhood generally, are both there for reasons.
Only $828 Billion? Didn't we borrow that much from China this year? Seriously... let's do this.
It's not in the Public Consciousness, agreed.... however it's in the Military Consciousness a great deal, especially the USMC. It's almost literally the bible for current officer training methodologies... so much so that "he's an Ender" is a phrase you'll hear to describe someone here and there.
Discorporation talks about the related, but distinct notion of simply keeping a severed head /alive/, in a manner now wholly reminiscent of Futurama.
Anyway, if you're interested: If We Can Keep a Severed Head Alive...Discorporation and U.S. Patent 4,666,425