With open access to GPU's, nothing can stop the Linux Desktop from taking over Microsoft's dominance.
After all, it is the largest installed application base/use of Microsoft Windows.
When Microsoft goes the way of the DoDo, infrastructure will have NO CHOICE but to open up.
Open Standards, Security and Reliability I predict will go through a renaissance, as infrastructure guys like me are required to vette software all the way down to the source code level.
We can't do that today, and it is causing all sorts of problems trying to protect the security and reliability of the systems we design for delivery to customers.
You don't need the IRS to tell you if you are sick or not.
Furthermore, there is not enough doctors, by any measure of the term, to do anything but send the vast majority of you home with aspirin with a hopeful "We are reviewing your case, and will get back to you." If this was really a bill about Health Care, provisions would have been put into the bill to provide qualified medical school people incentives to become a Doctor instead of a Wall Street Broker.
If this so called Health Care Law has anything to do with your health, it would address the enourmous shortage of facilities and doctors to care for the gigantic intake of patients that are going to come streaming into the hospitals from not just in the USA, but in Canada and Mexico for certain procedures.
With the stroke of a Pen, it is now impossible not to be in debt. If you don't pay, rich or poor the IRS can seize your assets for the Wall Street Bankers and their cronies under the guise of Health Care.
This has nothing to do with Health Care, but a tax on everyone to insure assets are controlled and seized.
Like all things, this has nothing to do with Health and much more to do with money. Nobody on earth, including your representatives would want any sort of care from this law.
What they want is exemption from the confiscation of assets.
Which is the reason why none of them have it and are legally exempt from confiscation of assets for non-payment..
It simply isn't profitable to have great teachers and great text books.
Nor is it profitable for example for Universities to graduate everyone in 4 years.
Same thing with Health Care. It is not profitable for people to be healthy. It cuts into your profits to have healthy people, cures for disease or any sort of treatment plan that does anything but insure permenant subscriptions to health care like pills for example, is not acceptable.
Cures are really bad for business.
In the age of the internet, it is hilarious to think the outcomes are somehow different if you have a person sitting in a class room dictating information to people, versus somone at home studying on the internet.
Of course, the only difference is, the person at the University paid 120K over 4 years, vs the person who paid about 4K for a decent internet connection.
The person who studied on his own is not as profitable as the person who went to a University, so he is not qualified.
Normally people call these srts of things SCAMS and Pyramid Schemes, but we call them HealthCare and Universities.
Send Al'Queda into regions with resources we want, properly fund them to do terrorist attacks here and abroad to keep the money flowing for the bankers and industrialists. That way we can install regimes to get the natural resources of any country for the cheap.
You don't think for a minute for example that Afghanistan war for the past 10 years is about "People who hate our freedom and liberty.".
I mean seriously people. Wake up and smell the coffee. Your getting your balls felt up at the air port, your cities are laying in ruin all for a bunch of bankers, who are printing money for the government to obtain these things.
No way in hell can we afford 11 carrier groups from just taxes, the dollar is a reserve currency so they can print it to fund all of this stuff.
When the dollar loses its reserve status, which is in the making, there is going to be a massive correction.
In my opinion when this happens the government in charge at the time is going to probably set off a Nuke in New York or something dramatic so the event clouds the issue and nobody asks these sorts of questions.
Same thing with the crooked banks, when they have a Holiday now, and you can't get your money out, it is a "Hacker" or a "Terrorist" or some other garbage.
There is no way they will ever get approval with the cronyism walking around to ever have someone generate all of their own electricity.
People are already being targeted for growing their own food by "STORM TROOPERS" which barge in with machine guns and kill everyone and ask questions later.
That includes a bullet for the family dog, cat and canary.
People don't understand what is going on with power, and forget the whole ENRON thing (which is still going on by the way, it just changed hands to people who are unaccountable.)
There is no way the Oil/Electric Gas companies will permit such a device _ever_.
Which if you currently live in the USA right now, are finding that LAW applies to the average person, LAWLESSNES applies to the government and its crony bankers.
You go to jail, they do not.
Since 2007, the monied elite have stolen whole countries to continue their lifestyles unabated. The amounts of money are staggering to imagine, some 17 trillion by FOIA that was accidentally leaked, which probably is many times that amount was actually stolen from countries world wide entangled in the Western Banking System.
I have no doubt, that if we took that money back and instead of allowing the wars and the fancy mansions these bankers continue to create and build today with it we could have easily cured cancer, develop far more creative solutions to Nuclear power. (i.e. Fukishima is rapidly turning from a catastrophe to an Apocalypse.)
With that money we could hace solved very interesting issues in material sciences for example to make a space station work.
We can do anything we can imagine. The problem is there seems to be something wrong with the human spirit.
We have had so many opportunities in our history to achieve these things, but war and psychopaths which amount to a very few people, end up destroying the entire civilization others have built.
Then we go back to mud huts.
We are on that same path AGAIN, which isn't surprising. What is surprising is the almost lack of interest anyone has in stopping it.
I would ignore most of what they publish and instead pay attention to where the money is coming from for most of this carbon tax crap.
Besides methane isn't the problem, we need to evaporate the oceans and destroy all fresh water/water vapor in the atmosphere a very potent green house gas before it kills us all!
We wouldn't have this problem if there was not a dying empire known as the Anglo Banking system, and men could have sex at home in loving and might I add healthy relationships.
We would have to get rid of this war thing though.
Besides, these wars to lock up the markets so to speak by western bankers and prevent the rest of the world from using anything but dollars is going to come to an end anyway.
Why not stop now so men can have sex with women and still have their limbs intact.
The enemy is everywhere, and it is YOU.
on
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Looking at the submissions lately for AOSP and finding out just how pissed off I am about recent events including this one, which just made my day.
Something to consider while you dine this evening:
1) Increasingly Handsets and anything that shows video is being locked out. 2) This post is just one example, but I can cite others if you can't google about the whole sickening GPU/DSP issues in the industry which just keep getting worse with everything that is LINUX. 3) The convergence in my mind, that it just so happens that governments are ape shit over knowing everything you do. Further, if I may point out, the huge contracts cellular providers are getting behind the scenes to make this happen from DARPA.
Which to me, makes me wonder if the idea of knowing exactly how the video and camera hardware work is something by design, is not something your local friendly cellular provider wants you to know.
Think of the hardware GPU/DSP on your phone as partitioned as sorta "that room" you never go into while working at your local friendly Time Warner NOC for example.
I mean, wouldn't it just be dandy if the DSP/GPU hardware is BLOB'ed and secret so that the NSA/CIA can turn it on any time, preferable in a manner other software on the phone knows nothing about.
Think about that next time you AOSP a compile and include those nice little BLOB's.
Seriously, are these people stupid at Intel or haven't they learned anything in the past 20 some years the Net has been around about software and why it is incredibly bad to centralize that sort of control and power in a single entity in infrastructure.
Let alone on a computer network?
There is no possible use for something like this unless you want to centralize power and control over the entire network mesh from one location.
Bad for business, bad for citizens in every country who deploy it, just plain bad idea. I might be inclined to give it a serious thought if I was Alice in Wonderland and could rely on the Chesire Cat to keep things on the up and up.
But you have to be kidding me? We have governments that would destroy the entire internet with this crap as it is right now if they had that sort of control.
Seriously, don't buy that crap and do not contribute to such a open source project.
With the current "education" system, you would have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars if you want to be degree'ed credentialed to get a position like that.
No way you would ever recover the costs of those degrees.
You would be a serf for the rest of your life.
But at least you would be an employed serf!
LOL!!!!
I personally can't wait for this whole institutionalized industrial college complex to crash and burn. Most of the rot with college degrees and other crap is all based around the current push for globalization which that too, will crash and burn.
Besides, let me get this straight, a gov polling agency says Snowden, whos real only crime is DOCUMENTING what everyone already knew for the last 10 years anyway...
Yet, with the governments dirty laundry now wide out in the open, a yougov site now says you should be mad that you know for sure.
I guess I am not surprised. Most of the American government went totally NAZI ga ga after World War 2, and built todays NAZI based Military Industrial Complex.
Point that out to people too, and they go meh.
We need a nice World War 3 to get rid of the meh and don't worry, they at yougov and other institutions are working hard at it with crappy polls and printing money like crazy to make it happen.
Way before the NSA was doing its whole spy grid: You have to consider at what point security ends on assumptions and begins on certainy.
Source Code provides another level of that certainty, and in the past couple of years due to all sorts of crazy things I have seen happen, increasingly that certainty is source code for myself personally.
So I insure most of my edge routers and security devices are built with source code and I do not use proprietary devices.
No, something else is up and I think it is the gradual decline of Microsoft as we are seeing defensive moves all across the board to make any sort of profit.
I am not sure how people on Slashdot feel about the cloud, but the idea of allowing a third party company store all of your private and critical data for your organization is like out of some sort of 1984 B movie knock off from Hollywood.
So a cloud substitute won't work for trying out Microsoft software.
I do know, there are lots of LINUX alternatives now and it might be a good idea for some of you proprietary guys to buy the religion of transparent software in the open source world for networking, operating systems and application stacks.
Besides, you never can tell who is in that binary DLL on your server.
Could be no one, or it could be somebody you don't want looking at your stuff.
Seriously, given the environment we are heading into it is worth a thought to start building infrastructure with more source code and less binaries you can't make or produce yourself.
Slashdot Mirror
and now the French go Penguin.
Am I living a dream?
If I am I do not want to wake up.
Is that .... is that the YEAR of the LINUX desktop I see over the horizon?!!!! ;-)
-Hack
Just made my Day.
With open access to GPU's, nothing can stop the Linux Desktop from taking over Microsoft's dominance.
After all, it is the largest installed application base/use of Microsoft Windows.
When Microsoft goes the way of the DoDo, infrastructure will have NO CHOICE but to open up.
Open Standards, Security and Reliability I predict will go through a renaissance, as infrastructure guys like me are required to vette software all the way down to the source code level.
We can't do that today, and it is causing all sorts of problems trying to protect the security and reliability of the systems we design for delivery to customers.
-Hack
from what..and from whom?
-Hackus
You don't need the IRS to tell you if you are sick or not.
Furthermore, there is not enough doctors, by any measure of the term, to do anything but send the vast majority of you home with aspirin with a hopeful "We are reviewing your case, and will get back to you." If this was really a bill about Health Care, provisions would have been put into the bill to provide qualified medical school people incentives to become a Doctor instead of a Wall Street Broker.
If this so called Health Care Law has anything to do with your health, it would address the enourmous shortage of facilities and doctors to care for the gigantic intake of patients that are going to come streaming into the hospitals from not just in the USA, but in Canada and Mexico for certain procedures.
With the stroke of a Pen, it is now impossible not to be in debt. If you don't pay, rich or poor the IRS can seize your assets for the Wall Street Bankers and their cronies under the guise of Health Care.
This has nothing to do with Health Care, but a tax on everyone to insure assets are controlled and seized.
Like all things, this has nothing to do with Health and much more to do with money. Nobody on earth, including your representatives would want any sort of care from this law.
What they want is exemption from the confiscation of assets.
Which is the reason why none of them have it and are legally exempt from confiscation of assets for non-payment..
-Hackus
it is not an issue because there is a choice to vette infrastructure.
If you want a secure system, use open source.
If you do not want a secure infrastructure use commercial security products which are specifically closed source.
You have a choice, which I think is being misconstrued as not caring.
-Hack
Btrfs has not finalized its disk format yet.
Until the designers are sure of the final disk layout, I do not think it is wise to adopt it for production use.
-Hack
In my opinion this is already known.
It simply isn't profitable to have great teachers and great text books.
Nor is it profitable for example for Universities to graduate everyone in 4 years.
Same thing with Health Care. It is not profitable for people to be healthy. It cuts into your profits to have healthy people, cures for disease or any sort of treatment plan that does anything but insure permenant subscriptions to health care like pills for example, is not acceptable.
Cures are really bad for business.
In the age of the internet, it is hilarious to think the outcomes are somehow different if you have a person sitting in a class room dictating information to people, versus somone at home studying on the internet.
Of course, the only difference is, the person at the University paid 120K over 4 years, vs the person who paid about 4K for a decent internet connection.
The person who studied on his own is not as profitable as the person who went to a University, so he is not qualified.
Normally people call these srts of things SCAMS and Pyramid Schemes, but we call them HealthCare and Universities.
-Hack
All we need to do is continue what we are doing.
Send Al'Queda into regions with resources we want, properly fund them to do terrorist attacks here and abroad to keep the money flowing for the bankers and industrialists. That way we can install regimes to get the natural resources of any country for the cheap.
You don't think for a minute for example that Afghanistan war for the past 10 years is about "People who hate our freedom and liberty.".
I tend to think it is about this:
http://news.discovery.com/earth/afghanistan-minerals-lithium.htm
I mean seriously people. Wake up and smell the coffee. Your getting your balls felt up at the air port, your cities are laying in ruin all for a bunch of bankers, who are printing money for the government to obtain these things.
No way in hell can we afford 11 carrier groups from just taxes, the dollar is a reserve currency so they can print it to fund all of this stuff.
When the dollar loses its reserve status, which is in the making, there is going to be a massive correction.
In my opinion when this happens the government in charge at the time is going to probably set off a Nuke in New York or something dramatic so the event clouds the issue and nobody asks these sorts of questions.
-Hack
a.k.a Market Crash
Same thing with the crooked banks, when they have a Holiday now, and you can't get your money out, it is a "Hacker" or a "Terrorist" or some other garbage.
-Hack
There is no way they will ever get approval with the cronyism walking around to ever have someone generate all of their own electricity.
People are already being targeted for growing their own food by "STORM TROOPERS" which barge in with machine guns and kill everyone and ask questions later.
That includes a bullet for the family dog, cat and canary.
People don't understand what is going on with power, and forget the whole ENRON thing (which is still going on by the way, it just changed hands to people who are unaccountable.)
There is no way the Oil/Electric Gas companies will permit such a device _ever_.
-Hack
Which if you currently live in the USA right now, are finding that LAW applies to the average person, LAWLESSNES applies to the government and its crony bankers.
You go to jail, they do not.
Since 2007, the monied elite have stolen whole countries to continue their lifestyles unabated. The amounts of money are staggering to imagine, some 17 trillion by FOIA that was accidentally leaked, which probably is many times that amount was actually stolen from countries world wide entangled in the Western Banking System.
I have no doubt, that if we took that money back and instead of allowing the wars and the fancy mansions these bankers continue to create and build today with it we could have easily cured cancer, develop far more creative solutions to Nuclear power. (i.e. Fukishima is rapidly turning from a catastrophe to an Apocalypse.)
With that money we could hace solved very interesting issues in material sciences for example to make a space station work.
We can do anything we can imagine. The problem is there seems to be something wrong with the human spirit.
We have had so many opportunities in our history to achieve these things, but war and psychopaths which amount to a very few people, end up destroying the entire civilization others have built.
Then we go back to mud huts.
We are on that same path AGAIN, which isn't surprising. What is surprising is the almost lack of interest anyone has in stopping it.
-Hack
No, they really do stuff like that?
I am soooooo surprised.
I just pointed this sort of thing out on a previous post and got modded to like 0 for it.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4072427&cid=44522737
Now it is front page news.
I am SO surprised that happened too.
-Hack
Nature is a pay for only RAG of a publication.
I would ignore most of what they publish and instead pay attention to where the money is coming from for most of this carbon tax crap.
Besides methane isn't the problem, we need to evaporate the oceans and destroy all fresh water/water vapor in the atmosphere a very potent green house gas before it kills us all!
So how about a H20 Tax Exchange?
-Hack
Um, if I may point out something.
We wouldn't have this problem if there was not a dying empire known as the Anglo Banking system, and men could have sex at home in loving and might I add healthy relationships.
We would have to get rid of this war thing though.
Besides, these wars to lock up the markets so to speak by western bankers and prevent the rest of the world from using anything but dollars is going to come to an end anyway.
Why not stop now so men can have sex with women and still have their limbs intact.
-Hackus
No Replaceable Battery
No ROM possible.
Just plain NO.
-Hack
Looking at the submissions lately for AOSP and finding out just how pissed off I am about recent events including this one, which just made my day.
Something to consider while you dine this evening:
1) Increasingly Handsets and anything that shows video is being locked out.
2) This post is just one example, but I can cite others if you can't google about the whole sickening GPU/DSP issues in the industry which just keep getting worse with everything that is LINUX.
3) The convergence in my mind, that it just so happens that governments are ape shit over knowing everything you do. Further, if I may point out, the huge contracts cellular providers are getting behind the scenes to make this happen from DARPA.
Which to me, makes me wonder if the idea of knowing exactly how the video and camera hardware work is something by design, is not something your local friendly cellular provider wants you to know.
Think of the hardware GPU/DSP on your phone as partitioned as sorta "that room" you never go into while working at your local friendly Time Warner NOC for example.
I mean, wouldn't it just be dandy if the DSP/GPU hardware is BLOB'ed and secret so that the NSA/CIA can turn it on any time, preferable in a manner other software on the phone knows nothing about.
Think about that next time you AOSP a compile and include those nice little BLOB's.
-Hack
Let me get this straight.
The same people who have destroyed the republic that once existed under the Constitution and Bill of Rights are going to defund drones?
If you believe that they actually do, I have some swamp land in Florida that is really beach front property you should buy.
No way in hell they are going to do that, even if the press says they do, they won't secretly.
The cache of industrial and financial information the NSA/CIA and its crony congressman get ALONE is far to valuable to just shut off.
-Hack
Seriously, are these people stupid at Intel or haven't they learned anything in the past 20 some years the Net has been around about software and why it is incredibly bad to centralize that sort of control and power in a single entity in infrastructure.
Let alone on a computer network?
There is no possible use for something like this unless you want to centralize power and control over the entire network mesh from one location.
Bad for business, bad for citizens in every country who deploy it, just plain bad idea. I might be inclined to give it a serious thought if I was Alice in Wonderland and could rely on the Chesire Cat to keep things on the up and up.
But you have to be kidding me? We have governments that would destroy the entire internet with this crap as it is right now if they had that sort of control.
Seriously, don't buy that crap and do not contribute to such a open source project.
-Hack
No, in fact double and triple my in with LINUS.
The only time I have seen him get angry is over stupid engineering. _I_ get angry over stupid engineering.
If you want nice engineering, tell that chix to go and work for Microsoft and their shitty operating system.
Have a NICE time.
I want hard core correct engineering by meritocracy, not some jackass MBA or CS type academic who has been in the classroom too long.
-Hack
LOL!!!
With the current "education" system, you would have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars if you want to be degree'ed credentialed to get a position like that.
No way you would ever recover the costs of those degrees.
You would be a serf for the rest of your life.
But at least you would be an employed serf!
LOL!!!!
I personally can't wait for this whole institutionalized industrial college complex to crash and burn. Most of the rot with college degrees and other crap is all based around the current push for globalization which that too, will crash and burn.
Absolutely hilarious.
-Hack
The type of breach Snowden performed was right and proper.
Why would you want to prevent such a breach?
??
Besides he didn't turn over weapon systems designs, like our government is doing on a daily basis to China.
Now THAT is treason.
-Hack
More like...THEYGOV.
Besides, let me get this straight, a gov polling agency says Snowden, whos real only crime is DOCUMENTING what everyone already knew for the last 10 years anyway...
Yet, with the governments dirty laundry now wide out in the open, a yougov site now says you should be mad that you know for sure.
I guess I am not surprised. Most of the American government went totally NAZI ga ga after World War 2, and built todays NAZI based Military Industrial Complex.
Point that out to people too, and they go meh.
We need a nice World War 3 to get rid of the meh and don't worry, they at yougov and other institutions are working hard at it with crappy polls and printing money like crazy to make it happen.
-Hack
I have been saying this for years.
Way before the NSA was doing its whole spy grid: You have to consider at what point security ends on assumptions and begins on certainy.
Source Code provides another level of that certainty, and in the past couple of years due to all sorts of crazy things I have seen happen, increasingly that certainty is source code for myself personally.
So I insure most of my edge routers and security devices are built with source code and I do not use proprietary devices.
-Hack
NOW piracy is a problem?
Bit late in the game tisn't it?
No, something else is up and I think it is the gradual decline of Microsoft as we are seeing defensive moves all across the board to make any sort of profit.
I am not sure how people on Slashdot feel about the cloud, but the idea of allowing a third party company store all of your private and critical data for your organization is like out of some sort of 1984 B movie knock off from Hollywood.
So a cloud substitute won't work for trying out Microsoft software.
I do know, there are lots of LINUX alternatives now and it might be a good idea for some of you proprietary guys to buy the religion of transparent software in the open source world for networking, operating systems and application stacks.
Besides, you never can tell who is in that binary DLL on your server.
Could be no one, or it could be somebody you don't want looking at your stuff.
Seriously, given the environment we are heading into it is worth a thought to start building infrastructure with more source code and less binaries you can't make or produce yourself.
-Hack
"Facebook and Microsoft Disclose Government Requests For User Data"
Oh yeah, I believe everything that Microsoft and Facebook says about it being the nice guy here and "disclosure" of information.
I have seen scams run on T.V. at 2AM in the morning more convincing than that statement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWyHiV3l3MA
-Hack