If a hacker can get ANY password for your system, then you are doing it wrong in the first place.
By "doing it wrong" I assume you meant "employing human beings" since it's been repeatedly proven that normal human employees will trade their passwords for sex, chocolate, or free theatre tickets.
Our main target for GNOME3 is laptop use, which I think is by far the overwhelming majority of computing use today - in the non-mobile space. The second target is existing high-performance workstations.
So, basically, they are targeting laptops (which are losing ground to tablets) and expensive machines, ignoring the truly vast numbers of cheap desktop PCs that exist in nearly every home at this point. For the inevitable automotive analogy, it's like they're making car paint that only looks good on Priuses and Teslas.
The only downside is both keyboards and mice are always active so it's a single person solution in two places.
That won't be a problem for me; the basement KB has an integrated trackball instead of a separate mouse, and I keep a cover over the whole thing since a certain calico cat believes it's her god-given right to dance and sleep on keyboards (including piano kbs, at 4AM). The upstairs KB/mouse is a wireless logitech dinovo edge, so it's turned off when not in use. No conflicts.
Hey, thanks for the tipoff! Last time I tried that (quite a few years ago) it was just as brittle as multiseat - every other update broke it - but I was using the NTSC TV-out on my hodgepodge card at the time, and now I'm all HDMI at the entertainment center. I'll try it again (although not with nVidia - I prefer to spend my money on companies that have a less contentious relationship with Open Source).
I've had a multi-seat linux system for many years and always found it difficult to set up and incredibly brittle to each new video card driver, Xorg release, and OS version (and likely not workable unless you disable the Gnome or KDE display manager). Once you get it working you do not touch it until you have at least a weekend to spend editing inittab, Xorg.conf, and so on.
My experience has been the same as yours. I want multi-seat so that I can have a dedicated console in the basement next to the actual server hardware, but also have the ability to use the mouse and keyboard in the living room where the entertainment center are. I don't want the server in the living room, I want it directly below, in the basement where I can dump its heat into the stone foundation.
As for "why try to do it?" - well, probably because liking Apple hardware and high-res displays does not automatically create a liking for XNU/Darwin. Some people prefer Open Source.
That's such a joke. I've got aging nuclear plants all around me here, and not a single damn one of them has ever been bothered in the slightest by "Greens". You're drinking somebody's kool-aid, my friend.
Read this and tell me how 40 years of continuous Green protests, which have achieved nothing, are going to shut down the poorly maintained, barely functional Yankee Vermont plant that every single sane human being in the state wants shut down. US greens are the definition of powerlessness; there's been more legislation influenced by looney anti-vaxxers for chrissakes.
I believe popular dissent, which admittedly was aroused by Green activists, preventing the building of one or two plants which were going to be built on fault lines or had other outrageous safety concerns. But are you going to pretend that this is a problem, and that we should knowingly build plants on major fault lines?
Environmentalists are the right-wing's favorite boogey man. Any time all the sane people in the whole country oppose some right-wing nutbaggery it's blamed on mythical environmentalist superpowers. It's totally laughable. US "greens" are close to powerless.
Nuclear power plants stopped being built when the Price-Anderson act expired, because they are not economically feasible without taxpayer sponsorship. Building resumed immediately when Dick Cheney re-authorized Price-Anderson, which now includes a per-watt subsidy from the taxpayer pocketbook.
Look it up. That is a complete and accurate answer to your first question, and your second statement is provably false - "greenies" did not shut down the building of nuke plants, banks and insurance companies did, as soon as taxpayers stopped funding construction.
In the fact-based world, nuclear power generation requires tax dollars to make a profit. It's a fundamentally socialist technology that cannot compete in the marketplace without government funding. Look it up, seriously - don't take my word for it. Price-Anderson act.
You've made a factually inaccurate statement and offered no evidence whatsoever to support your claim, so I'm just going to ignore it.
Look, Al Gore, the environmentalist darling, got more popular votes for President than any man in US history ever. Did he win the election? I rest my case. US environmentalists have less power than the Boy Scouts of America.
Yeah, it's all the fault of those damn greenies. There's no way the entrenched powers who actually control things could possibly have anything to do with it - secretly, you know, a bunch of dirty hippy flower children control all the world's investment banks, that explains everything!
Let's face it, in the USA "greens" have less power than dog fanciers. This Rush Limbaugh meme of blaming them for all US nuclear power issues is hilarious.
Either science and engineering is right or it isn't. If you think engineers can safely build a nuclear reactor and operate it for 40 years, why is 80 years different if they can demonstrate strong engineering judgement? And if 80 years isn't safe, then what arbitrary number is it that it becomes unsafe?
If we were depending on anything as rational as science, engineering or judgement we wouldn't run them past their designed lifespans.
There's these things called "safety margins" that engineers like, and these things called "new designs" that scientists like, but none of that will be as important as what the rich political donors want. Because the people making the decisions, at the end, will be the politicians.
The Dvorak keyboard has not yet triumphed over QWERTY, so I think moving well-known buttons for efficiency is pretty close to a dead argument, at least outside the Apple fanbase.
In my case, the first thing I do when I close an app is close another one. And then, when all twenty or thirty SSH sessions are closed, I hit ctl-alt-delete, click shutdown and go get a beer. But that's obviously just one person's use case. Some people like cupcakes better - but I, for one, care less for them.
When they moved the window control buttons to the left they had already gone off the deep end.
Man, I have to agree; that does seem to have been the shark-jump moment, doesn't it? Up until then it seems like Canonical had good solid technical or ergonomic reasons for nearly everything they did.
Do you know if your friend had the radio on? I've often wondered what would have happened if my cow-orker had an active electrical path leading into the car when it was struck.
Another possible explanation for the difference is that he was crossing a railroad track (extremely good ground path) and I'm assuming (since you didn't mention it) that your friend in Lincoln was not, when he was struck.
when someone uninsured shows up at the hospital with a broken arm, then avoids the bill or declares bankrupcty, we bail out the hospital from bankrupcty and you pay the bill
Can you provide a list of hospitals where this has actually happened? Because when Dallas-Forth Worth Medical Center went bankrupt in 2000, the government sure didn't step in. I've never heard of the US government bailing out a hospital during peacetime, ever.
Your point about freeloaders is correct, you've just got the players wrong. In reality, the hospital has to raise fees to cover the uninsured, which raises the cost of your medical insurance. So the insured pay for the indigent and for freeloaders, the taxpayers don't. The federal government is not financially involved.
Keep in mind that we're talking about insurance corporations here. So I doubt that your insurance rates will come down when we get rid of the freeloaders, or even if we magically eliminate the costs of treating those who can't afford to pay.
What kind of car? An old one with a mechanical carburetor, or one with a modern computer-controlled fuel-injected engine?
Fuel-injected modern car. No data on old ones... although I wonder what would happen to the magneto on a Model T Ford? Seems like a pretty big coil in there.
Does NOT work. the car would not be affected enough by that.
One of my cow-orkers had his car struck by lightning while he was crossing the railroad tracks on US Rt 9 by Old New Castle. This happened in front of multiple witnesses in the middle of a slightly overcast day with light rain on and off, but the car was reasonably dry at the time. The entire car was enveloped by a blue corona and the driver said the light and noise inside the car was terrifying.
But nobody was harmed and the engine didn't even stop. The metal shell of the car completely protected it. It's unclear what would have happened if the radio had been on, but I'd expect a blown accessory fuse.
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By "doing it wrong" I assume you meant "employing human beings" since it's been repeatedly proven that normal human employees will trade their passwords for sex, chocolate, or free theatre tickets.
I envy you, then.
From the article:
So, basically, they are targeting laptops (which are losing ground to tablets) and expensive machines, ignoring the truly vast numbers of cheap desktop PCs that exist in nearly every home at this point. For the inevitable automotive analogy, it's like they're making car paint that only looks good on Priuses and Teslas.
If they are de-optimizing for over half the installed hardware base it's unsurprising that they aren't satisfying end users.
That won't be a problem for me; the basement KB has an integrated trackball instead of a separate mouse, and I keep a cover over the whole thing since a certain calico cat believes it's her god-given right to dance and sleep on keyboards (including piano kbs, at 4AM). The upstairs KB/mouse is a wireless logitech dinovo edge, so it's turned off when not in use. No conflicts.
Hey, thanks for the tipoff! Last time I tried that (quite a few years ago) it was just as brittle as multiseat - every other update broke it - but I was using the NTSC TV-out on my hodgepodge card at the time, and now I'm all HDMI at the entertainment center. I'll try it again (although not with nVidia - I prefer to spend my money on companies that have a less contentious relationship with Open Source).
My experience has been the same as yours. I want multi-seat so that I can have a dedicated console in the basement next to the actual server hardware, but also have the ability to use the mouse and keyboard in the living room where the entertainment center are. I don't want the server in the living room, I want it directly below, in the basement where I can dump its heat into the stone foundation.
Wrong. Now GTFO my lawn.
It's quite a bit more honest, anyway. Honesty should count for something.
See his blog post -
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/15948.html
As for "why try to do it?" - well, probably because liking Apple hardware and high-res displays does not automatically create a liking for XNU/Darwin. Some people prefer Open Source.
It's unlikely it was programmed at all, unless you call calibrating a sensor "programming".
This sounds like the standard neo-conservative line on teen pregnancy - "Well, you shouldn't have had sex, you harlot."
Seems like it would be simpler, and far more honest, to just say "fuck you, your problem doesn't matter to me".
Thanks for the marginally appropriate use of a manipulative political meme ("nanny state") in your post. I won a pint of beer by completing my card!
The other winning slots were "death tax", "skin in the game", "Kony 2012" and of course the free "terrorism" block in the center.
You shouldn't have set your PATH to /iran/fission/uranium/centrifuge, then.
Greens shut down nuclear plants with lawsuits
That's such a joke. I've got aging nuclear plants all around me here, and not a single damn one of them has ever been bothered in the slightest by "Greens". You're drinking somebody's kool-aid, my friend.
Read this and tell me how 40 years of continuous Green protests, which have achieved nothing, are going to shut down the poorly maintained, barely functional Yankee Vermont plant that every single sane human being in the state wants shut down. US greens are the definition of powerlessness; there's been more legislation influenced by looney anti-vaxxers for chrissakes.
I believe popular dissent, which admittedly was aroused by Green activists, preventing the building of one or two plants which were going to be built on fault lines or had other outrageous safety concerns. But are you going to pretend that this is a problem, and that we should knowingly build plants on major fault lines?
Environmentalists are the right-wing's favorite boogey man. Any time all the sane people in the whole country oppose some right-wing nutbaggery it's blamed on mythical environmentalist superpowers. It's totally laughable. US "greens" are close to powerless.
Nuclear power plants stopped being built when the Price-Anderson act expired, because they are not economically feasible without taxpayer sponsorship. Building resumed immediately when Dick Cheney re-authorized Price-Anderson, which now includes a per-watt subsidy from the taxpayer pocketbook.
Look it up. That is a complete and accurate answer to your first question, and your second statement is provably false - "greenies" did not shut down the building of nuke plants, banks and insurance companies did, as soon as taxpayers stopped funding construction.
In the fact-based world, nuclear power generation requires tax dollars to make a profit. It's a fundamentally socialist technology that cannot compete in the marketplace without government funding. Look it up, seriously - don't take my word for it. Price-Anderson act.
You've made a factually inaccurate statement and offered no evidence whatsoever to support your claim, so I'm just going to ignore it.
Look, Al Gore, the environmentalist darling, got more popular votes for President than any man in US history ever. Did he win the election? I rest my case. US environmentalists have less power than the Boy Scouts of America.
Yeah, it's all the fault of those damn greenies. There's no way the entrenched powers who actually control things could possibly have anything to do with it - secretly, you know, a bunch of dirty hippy flower children control all the world's investment banks, that explains everything!
Let's face it, in the USA "greens" have less power than dog fanciers. This Rush Limbaugh meme of blaming them for all US nuclear power issues is hilarious.
If we were depending on anything as rational as science, engineering or judgement we wouldn't run them past their designed lifespans.
There's these things called "safety margins" that engineers like, and these things called "new designs" that scientists like, but none of that will be as important as what the rich political donors want. Because the people making the decisions, at the end, will be the politicians.
I heard there's this thing called myspace that everybody's going to use, from now on.
Oh, wait, too late? I meant to say G+, yeah, that's it.
The Dvorak keyboard has not yet triumphed over QWERTY, so I think moving well-known buttons for efficiency is pretty close to a dead argument, at least outside the Apple fanbase.
In my case, the first thing I do when I close an app is close another one. And then, when all twenty or thirty SSH sessions are closed, I hit ctl-alt-delete, click shutdown and go get a beer. But that's obviously just one person's use case. Some people like cupcakes better - but I, for one, care less for them.
Man, I have to agree; that does seem to have been the shark-jump moment, doesn't it? Up until then it seems like Canonical had good solid technical or ergonomic reasons for nearly everything they did.
Do you know if your friend had the radio on? I've often wondered what would have happened if my cow-orker had an active electrical path leading into the car when it was struck.
Another possible explanation for the difference is that he was crossing a railroad track (extremely good ground path) and I'm assuming (since you didn't mention it) that your friend in Lincoln was not, when he was struck.
Can you provide a list of hospitals where this has actually happened? Because when Dallas-Forth Worth Medical Center went bankrupt in 2000, the government sure didn't step in. I've never heard of the US government bailing out a hospital during peacetime, ever.
Your point about freeloaders is correct, you've just got the players wrong. In reality, the hospital has to raise fees to cover the uninsured, which raises the cost of your medical insurance. So the insured pay for the indigent and for freeloaders, the taxpayers don't. The federal government is not financially involved.
Keep in mind that we're talking about insurance corporations here. So I doubt that your insurance rates will come down when we get rid of the freeloaders, or even if we magically eliminate the costs of treating those who can't afford to pay.
Fuel-injected modern car. No data on old ones... although I wonder what would happen to the magneto on a Model T Ford? Seems like a pretty big coil in there.
One of my cow-orkers had his car struck by lightning while he was crossing the railroad tracks on US Rt 9 by Old New Castle. This happened in front of multiple witnesses in the middle of a slightly overcast day with light rain on and off, but the car was reasonably dry at the time. The entire car was enveloped by a blue corona and the driver said the light and noise inside the car was terrifying.
But nobody was harmed and the engine didn't even stop. The metal shell of the car completely protected it. It's unclear what would have happened if the radio had been on, but I'd expect a blown accessory fuse.