The problem is because people use the wrong tools for things. This is not a definitive list:
Perl is ONLY useful today as a server-sided processing script. If you are using Perl on your front end, you will get dependency hell as your server updates things arbitrarily. Perl breaks super-frequently due to the move from manual updates to automatic updates of third party libraries/ports.
I never use the PAM libraries, so this is not a problem. I could never understand why people take the time to fight with someone else's code that rarely does exactly what I need instead of writing their own little subroutine.
Thoughts and prayers out to the victims and their families. Speedy recovery for the injured.
I'll be quick here. This is Slashdot, not Sunday School. This is a site for rational people. Thoughts and prayers are an idiotic way to make yourself feel good about yourself, but do nothing for the victims. At the same time, fuck the victims. I hope this is the beginning of the violent revolution we've been hoping for. Considering you have have an FBI record for your prayer, it matters not that I get an entry for my statement. We are all screwed unless someone can reset Franklin's great experiment. This may be a start.
A studio is afraid to try something new because a movie costs millions, often hundreds of millions, to make.
No it doesn't. There's no reason for any movie to cost that. It is assumed that any movie will pull in that kind of profit, so the producers are given that kind of money to compete against all the other high prices movies. Most of that money goes to bidding for top name actors, just like a sports team will bid for top athletes. Some of the best movies were made on a shoe string.
Exactly. If we want more Flashes and more Silverlights, by all means, fight against DRM in the browser. I, for one, do not. I will choose the lesser evil. We're going to need it until we "fix" copyright law, which could take literally forever.
One political revolution will end it pretty quickly. For some reason the US thinks they are immune to such a change, even when they see it happening all around them.
Correct if I am wrong, but as I understand it the patent office just rubber stamps any patent application as long as all the eyes are crossed and tees are dotted. It's up to any other party to prove that the patent should not have been granted. Which is where all the expensive lawyers come in, which is why patents have no purpose except for huge companies to fuck with each other.
The rational and intelligent states of Illinois, California, and New York are doing what they can to limit the federal insanity. Please give them whatever support you can.
As a security expert (since anyone can make that claim), I have discovered that since code is written by people, and no one could possibly take the time and spend the money to absolutely secure any application written for any operating system (moving targets), that X (name your application) could possibly (if any number of random factors are taken into consideration) be compromised! Not that anyone has actually proven that any such hack has been accomplished.
How about give us some news when the exploits actually exist.
"SoftBank is growing frustrated with Sprint's lack of major growth in the U.S. market"
What is wrong is a stable successful profitable company? It seems that everyone thinks that a company that isn't growing every year is not a good company. There's plenty of wealth and resources on this planet for everyone. The end goal is not to have one winner who owns everything.
"Social media" is more like mass advertising than social interaction. It is a form of instant gratification, that takes advantage of people's inherent insecurities. My best friends are ones that I know will hide me from the cops if I arrive at their door covered in blood, not the ones that spend the most time making superficial replies to my random posts. Build strong relationships with a small number of important people. You will be much happier.
Damn, $50 million for filing some vague patent and not creating or innovating anything. How is this legal again? Oh yeah, the big companies use the patent system to keep out all small competition, so it's not going away any time soon.
Most of recipients are naturally freeloaders, and that's expected. When a merchant in medieval Genoa or a partician in ancient Rome sponsored a work of art, the plebs got to see it for free. In ancient Greece, there were even special funds so the poor can be exposed to culture. Some goods are scarce, and those are naturally limited -- during a famine, I wouldn't share my last bread no matter how loud the preachers speak -- but most artwork doesn't get used up just because some enjoy it for free.
I'm becoming more and more convinced of this. Two examples. There is a new season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 coming out in a couple of month, fully crowd funded. This is art that people WANTED, and we PAID for it. It wasn't forced down our throats. Another example is my favorite band Killing Joke. One member is an art restorer. One is an active music producer. One lives a no frills life style in Prague. And the last is composer in residence for the European Union. The band is what they do for the LOVE of art, not the PROFIT. They make some money touring, but almost nothing off their records.
Fuck the MPAA. We will have art and culture, and better art and culture, if they were to disappear tomorrow. They are no longer the distribution system of art to the masses. They are the road block.
CA will continue to have environmental protection, no matter what the federal government. We still have open borders, so if you need to escape US idiocy, we welcome you with open arms. The same goes for IL, NY, and a few other first world nation states. The rest of the country can go fuck yourselves.
And it's the biggest cluster fuck you can imagine. Only registered travellers over the age of 18 get to use it. Every one else gets to join an EVEN LONGER QUEUE because they can't be bothered to lay on sufficient staff to process people coming through. Entire families stuck in a fucking queue for over an hour thanks to electronic borders. Progress.
Only an hour? That would be a dream come true in the US.
It's actually not all that difficult to spot vpn traffic. Run some DPI and just simply look at the size of the packets being exchanged.
You are talking simple in THEORY, but not in practice. We're talking about sniffing the traffic of a COUNTRY, not a small office. That takes serious hardware and serious money if they don't want to crawl. Sounds like they are ready to turn on some system. But like all things internet, it will only take a short time for people to learn how to get around it.
Of all the possible uses of Siri, "Siri Stop Navigating" when you are trying to pull into a parking lot at your destination and she won't shut up about making a U-turn is about the only use that we've found yet. Voice is great for a minuscule number of real life situations.
According to TFS, nothing was lost. They just can't access their stuff until it's moved over to the new database. No disaster. No lesson. No dog. Just off line for a few days.
So Oracle decides to name their next version of Solaris 11.next instead of 12. How does a random version numbering change spell demise for Solaris? Not that I think it has much of a future, but this is as silly as security ratings based on number of bugs. This tells us nothing about what features will ship with the next version.
You must be a sadomasochist. How can you have a soft spot for anything who's default shell is still ksh? It felt like I was stuck in the 80s every time I had to administer Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX.
Default shell for SunOS was csh. Default shell for Solaris was sh. I don't know what silly sysadmins you've had in the past, but ksh has never been the default shell.
It's a shame that the same thing happens every day in the good old USA, except it's legal campaign contributions and lobbying. So there's no longer any chance of a scandal or prosecution. Just business as usual.
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The problem is because people use the wrong tools for things. This is not a definitive list:
Perl is ONLY useful today as a server-sided processing script. If you are using Perl on your front end, you will get dependency hell as your server updates things arbitrarily. Perl breaks super-frequently due to the move from manual updates to automatic updates of third party libraries/ports.
I never use the PAM libraries, so this is not a problem. I could never understand why people take the time to fight with someone else's code that rarely does exactly what I need instead of writing their own little subroutine.
We have 3 cats, and 1 is overweight. Study confirmed.
Thoughts and prayers out to the victims and their families. Speedy recovery for the injured.
I'll be quick here. This is Slashdot, not Sunday School. This is a site for rational people. Thoughts and prayers are an idiotic way to make yourself feel good about yourself, but do nothing for the victims. At the same time, fuck the victims. I hope this is the beginning of the violent revolution we've been hoping for. Considering you have have an FBI record for your prayer, it matters not that I get an entry for my statement. We are all screwed unless someone can reset Franklin's great experiment. This may be a start.
A studio is afraid to try something new because a movie costs millions, often hundreds of millions, to make.
No it doesn't. There's no reason for any movie to cost that. It is assumed that any movie will pull in that kind of profit, so the producers are given that kind of money to compete against all the other high prices movies. Most of that money goes to bidding for top name actors, just like a sports team will bid for top athletes. Some of the best movies were made on a shoe string.
Exactly. If we want more Flashes and more Silverlights, by all means, fight against DRM in the browser. I, for one, do not. I will choose the lesser evil. We're going to need it until we "fix" copyright law, which could take literally forever.
One political revolution will end it pretty quickly. For some reason the US thinks they are immune to such a change, even when they see it happening all around them.
Correct if I am wrong, but as I understand it the patent office just rubber stamps any patent application as long as all the eyes are crossed and tees are dotted. It's up to any other party to prove that the patent should not have been granted. Which is where all the expensive lawyers come in, which is why patents have no purpose except for huge companies to fuck with each other.
No, no they're not. Simple as that. The delay announcements should start around September.
The rational and intelligent states of Illinois, California, and New York are doing what they can to limit the federal insanity. Please give them whatever support you can.
Someone charges by the numbers for those take down notices. Someone at the media conglomerates got fleeced.
As a security expert (since anyone can make that claim), I have discovered that since code is written by people, and no one could possibly take the time and spend the money to absolutely secure any application written for any operating system (moving targets), that X (name your application) could possibly (if any number of random factors are taken into consideration) be compromised! Not that anyone has actually proven that any such hack has been accomplished.
How about give us some news when the exploits actually exist.
"SoftBank is growing frustrated with Sprint's lack of major growth in the U.S. market"
What is wrong is a stable successful profitable company? It seems that everyone thinks that a company that isn't growing every year is not a good company. There's plenty of wealth and resources on this planet for everyone. The end goal is not to have one winner who owns everything.
A haiku is not a poem based on syllables. Karma is not what goes around comes around. And a koan is not a RANDOM FUCKING QUESTION.
"Social media" is more like mass advertising than social interaction. It is a form of instant gratification, that takes advantage of people's inherent insecurities. My best friends are ones that I know will hide me from the cops if I arrive at their door covered in blood, not the ones that spend the most time making superficial replies to my random posts. Build strong relationships with a small number of important people. You will be much happier.
Damn, $50 million for filing some vague patent and not creating or innovating anything. How is this legal again? Oh yeah, the big companies use the patent system to keep out all small competition, so it's not going away any time soon.
Most of recipients are naturally freeloaders, and that's expected. When a merchant in medieval Genoa or a partician in ancient Rome sponsored a work of art, the plebs got to see it for free. In ancient Greece, there were even special funds so the poor can be exposed to culture. Some goods are scarce, and those are naturally limited -- during a famine, I wouldn't share my last bread no matter how loud the preachers speak -- but most artwork doesn't get used up just because some enjoy it for free.
I'm becoming more and more convinced of this. Two examples. There is a new season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 coming out in a couple of month, fully crowd funded. This is art that people WANTED, and we PAID for it. It wasn't forced down our throats. Another example is my favorite band Killing Joke. One member is an art restorer. One is an active music producer. One lives a no frills life style in Prague. And the last is composer in residence for the European Union. The band is what they do for the LOVE of art, not the PROFIT. They make some money touring, but almost nothing off their records.
Fuck the MPAA. We will have art and culture, and better art and culture, if they were to disappear tomorrow. They are no longer the distribution system of art to the masses. They are the road block.
K2! K2! K2! We want measurements now!
CA will continue to have environmental protection, no matter what the federal government. We still have open borders, so if you need to escape US idiocy, we welcome you with open arms. The same goes for IL, NY, and a few other first world nation states. The rest of the country can go fuck yourselves.
And it's the biggest cluster fuck you can imagine. Only registered travellers over the age of 18 get to use it. Every one else gets to join an EVEN LONGER QUEUE because they can't be bothered to lay on sufficient staff to process people coming through. Entire families stuck in a fucking queue for over an hour thanks to electronic borders. Progress.
Only an hour? That would be a dream come true in the US.
It's actually not all that difficult to spot vpn traffic. Run some DPI and just simply look at the size of the packets being exchanged.
You are talking simple in THEORY, but not in practice. We're talking about sniffing the traffic of a COUNTRY, not a small office. That takes serious hardware and serious money if they don't want to crawl. Sounds like they are ready to turn on some system. But like all things internet, it will only take a short time for people to learn how to get around it.
Of all the possible uses of Siri, "Siri Stop Navigating" when you are trying to pull into a parking lot at your destination and she won't shut up about making a U-turn is about the only use that we've found yet. Voice is great for a minuscule number of real life situations.
According to TFS, nothing was lost. They just can't access their stuff until it's moved over to the new database. No disaster. No lesson. No dog. Just off line for a few days.
BFD
In almost every case, the employers bragging about jobs or potential jobs are lying and thinking about profits and potential profits for themselves.
Reality? Well, uh, look over there! A gay illegal Mexican trying to get a free abortion!
So Oracle decides to name their next version of Solaris 11.next instead of 12. How does a random version numbering change spell demise for Solaris? Not that I think it has much of a future, but this is as silly as security ratings based on number of bugs. This tells us nothing about what features will ship with the next version.
You must be a sadomasochist. How can you have a soft spot for anything who's default shell is still ksh? It felt like I was stuck in the 80s every time I had to administer Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX.
Default shell for SunOS was csh. Default shell for Solaris was sh. I don't know what silly sysadmins you've had in the past, but ksh has never been the default shell.
It's a shame that the same thing happens every day in the good old USA, except it's legal campaign contributions and lobbying. So there's no longer any chance of a scandal or prosecution. Just business as usual.