I don’t get one thing. Pottering is obviously is challenged when it comes to writing defensive code, listening to others, etc.
How on earth did he get so major Linux distro maintainers convinced of systemd? One subpar human shouldn’t have been able to dupe so many. Anyone got an explanation for that?
Well they needed to do something to prevent a holiday quarter disaster... I imagine the i7s have had their thread count halved because steep discounting will be Intel’s only play against AMD at this moment.
Pension funds manage large sums of money - decent chunks go into indexes but they also have strong reasons to buy stocks.
For example, many funds are based on (i.e. need in order to meet their obligations) ~7% annualised returns. They should and would be in bonds (super 'low risk') if the returns there weren't so pathetic due to prolonged super-low interest rates - the 2008 recovery was made possible by screwing over savers (and in turn pension funds). They have been having to chase equities and indexes can't reliably return the 7%+ they need. Of course, they could lower their returns expectations but that would mean contributions need to increase or benefits need to be cut - neither of which goes down well and becomes a political problem with voters.
In short, they are damned if they do and damned if they don't
Same story with 2 of my former clients - Oracle's tactics worked before because they had a pretty solid monopoly and customers were willing to pay. Now customers are looking at cutting costs and attracted towards cloud competitors that charge fractions of what Oracle charges and aren't anywhere near as aggressive with audits and sales.
Oracle can still succeed but it really needs to throw away its current playbook - otherwise it'll be repeating IBM's mistakes when the mainframe era was coming to an end.
India definitely needs to invest more in cleaner energy. Population densities mean that the masses owning a combustion powered vehicle like in Europe & the US will have a greater impact. China realised this (better late than never) and are at least taking steps to clean up their cities. India needs to follow.
I find it amusing that JLR (owned by an Indian company) are making their first electric car an SUV. If it were me, I'd also have been making an electric mini-car and electric motorcycle targeted at developing economies.
I remember this came up on Postgres mailing lists earlier this year: https://www.postgresql.org/mes...
Perhaps someone can code some machine learning code-converter to do it:-p
What about users in those countries who without a patch might get their computers compromised and become unwitting victims in the next botnet attack in the land of the free and its allies?
If they had to run a company they'd run it into the ground instead of towards success. That's why they're politicians.
Airbus, not the most efficient of global corporations, can remain a profitable concern only by making rational commercial decisions. If that means negotiating with a non-European supplier then the good French senator Alain Gournac ought to find out why Ariane 5 (or 6) were deficient and figure out how to make them competitive.
But that would require the Monsieur Gournac to pull his thumb outta his ass and do some real work. Non, pas acceptable!
Caveat: I speak as a developer, just recently I've been told I should be doing more project management / team leading / mentoring. Everytime I ask a developer how long a piece of code will take I get an answer that I know is ridiculously unrealistic. Most non-techie Project Managers would take a developers 'I can do that in an afternoon' at face value. Instead I've had to have long discussions with my guys so that they begin to think in a way that gives accurate estimates (i.e. accounting for a bit of 'I don't know why this isn't working' and accounting for the fact they may have to refactor a bits of code here and there to make it tidier, etc.).
So, now that I'm been on the 'other side' I do understand how estimates can go haywire.
"all evidence suggests people are increasingly unwilling to be cut off from constant communication"... wouldn't it make MORE sense then to promote technology that allows you to be in communication without having to take your eyes off the road... like the same way you can talk to a passenger in the vehicle whilst driving?
I dunno, Apple's 'Siri Eyes Free' and initiatives by others are one route to this whilst driverless cars are the other. Engineers seem to pick losing battles by creating technology with a 'computer says no' mindset instead of focussing on technology that tries to safely accommodate what people want to do.
I for one hope Scott Tibbitts fails in this endeavour and learns enough from it to focus on progressive and enhancing technology rather than restrictive technology.
If this discussion is going to descend in to 'Hamas as terrorists' then we should recognise the use of the word 'terrorism' as an adjective used to vilify one side and make an opposing side seem legitimate. The American revolutionaries were also considered terrorists as was Ghandi and Nelson Mandela. However, I don’t support Hamas’ use of violence to further their desire for a sovereign state. In fact, the state of Israel itself was founded a ‘terrorist organisation’ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
"The moment Hamas stops shooting, IDF stops shooting, period." - well that's great. But you realise Hamas are firing because they live in an occupation and under siege? They'll stop fighting when Israel pursues a 2-state strategy with sincerity. Israel has ignored its commitment to a 2-state solution in 2009. In 2012 it made agreements for a ceasefire but began laying siege to Gaza and throughout 2013 largely ignored any attempts of establishing peace (note: during this period Hamas had not killed or kidnapped a single Israeli civilian).
In April this year, the talks collapsed as Abbas sought Palestinian membership in 15 UN conventions and reconciled with Hamas, and Israel made a surprise announcement of plans for 700 new settlements and refused to free a last batch of Palestinian prisoners which included Israeli-Arab citizens. That was April this year, before any of this conflict. Israel made clear it doesn't want Palestinians to pursue a non-violent route to statehood either.
There you have it, if Israel wants peace it must offer the Palestinians what they have a right to - a fully functioning state with control over its own future. Don't call them Hamas terrorists for pursuing what they're entitled to and have been brutally denied even when seeking it peacefully.
Just another article that makes big claims yet shockingly thin on any details. How are we on/. meant to have any discussion on this when there's nothing tech-worthy - just some questionable allegations.
He could (and probably would) be arrested for providing material useful to terrorists. Anyone who visits the site is likely to be placed under a veil of suspicion too.
The most dangerous act of terrorism is about to be defined as.... 'thinking'.
Was he reported to throw it across the room when he heard it too did not come with Solitaire? I mean, how else was it gonna help him get through inane board meetings!?
I too had felt the same way, Java &.NET both seem like more modern development tools that free the developer from having to think about memory management and instead focus on what they want to create.
Having recently been using Objective-C my perspective has changed quite a bit. I have some background in C & assembly so the concept of managing memory is not entirely foreign. I am finding the Cocoa APIs to be very clean and nice to use. Managing memory is also not as painful an experience as I recall from my C days.
Objective-C apps should be more efficient (which really matters on battery-powered devices where processor usage is still important) and indeed it is. I believe it is one of the reasons Android and its apps still lag even when compared to older, less powerful Nokia phones.
before the Snowden revelations I would have believed that. Now it just seems like they're not able to maintain the same statement so they haven't updated it. Call me paranoid if you like but context has changed.
One of the big selling points of OSS is that software can be scrutinised for things like back doors. OpenSSL is indeed extremely popular as is OpenVPN - surprises me that the NSA and others have outwit the smart techies that should be able to spot weaknesses. Or perhaps we take OSS for granted so everyone assumes it has been scrutinised but no one actually bothers to analyse the code.
When it comes to international standards I should remind everyone that the NSA doesn't need to do much to make those complicated and unwieldily. Look at SOAP or UML. For some reason when you gather an international consortium together to make a standard it is natural for it to be a huge WTF by the time it eventually becomes finalised. People feel the need to cater for every conceivable use case even if they're unlikely to be practical or real-world and often those pushing for things have very little grasp of the implications.
Crypto related standards are different though, because you actually need people who know what they're doing. So apply the same approach to security and the resulting standard is bound to contain weaknesses. I would bet money that the NSA probably saved the IPSEC standards committee from making it overly weak (much like they enhanced DES when it was first created).
Is there an open source alternative to IPSEC that has been scrutinised by cryptographers?
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I don’t get one thing. Pottering is obviously is challenged when it comes to writing defensive code, listening to others, etc. How on earth did he get so major Linux distro maintainers convinced of systemd? One subpar human shouldn’t have been able to dupe so many. Anyone got an explanation for that?
Well they needed to do something to prevent a holiday quarter disaster... I imagine the i7s have had their thread count halved because steep discounting will be Intel’s only play against AMD at this moment.
Pension funds manage large sums of money - decent chunks go into indexes but they also have strong reasons to buy stocks.
For example, many funds are based on (i.e. need in order to meet their obligations) ~7% annualised returns. They should and would be in bonds (super 'low risk') if the returns there weren't so pathetic due to prolonged super-low interest rates - the 2008 recovery was made possible by screwing over savers (and in turn pension funds). They have been having to chase equities and indexes can't reliably return the 7%+ they need. Of course, they could lower their returns expectations but that would mean contributions need to increase or benefits need to be cut - neither of which goes down well and becomes a political problem with voters.
In short, they are damned if they do and damned if they don't
Same story with 2 of my former clients - Oracle's tactics worked before because they had a pretty solid monopoly and customers were willing to pay. Now customers are looking at cutting costs and attracted towards cloud competitors that charge fractions of what Oracle charges and aren't anywhere near as aggressive with audits and sales. Oracle can still succeed but it really needs to throw away its current playbook - otherwise it'll be repeating IBM's mistakes when the mainframe era was coming to an end.
They dropped the motto for this type of reason... Now it’s free to pursue money and power unemcumbered.
India definitely needs to invest more in cleaner energy. Population densities mean that the masses owning a combustion powered vehicle like in Europe & the US will have a greater impact. China realised this (better late than never) and are at least taking steps to clean up their cities. India needs to follow. I find it amusing that JLR (owned by an Indian company) are making their first electric car an SUV. If it were me, I'd also have been making an electric mini-car and electric motorcycle targeted at developing economies.
I remember this came up on Postgres mailing lists earlier this year: https://www.postgresql.org/mes... Perhaps someone can code some machine learning code-converter to do it :-p
What about users in those countries who without a patch might get their computers compromised and become unwitting victims in the next botnet attack in the land of the free and its allies?
If they had to run a company they'd run it into the ground instead of towards success. That's why they're politicians. Airbus, not the most efficient of global corporations, can remain a profitable concern only by making rational commercial decisions. If that means negotiating with a non-European supplier then the good French senator Alain Gournac ought to find out why Ariane 5 (or 6) were deficient and figure out how to make them competitive. But that would require the Monsieur Gournac to pull his thumb outta his ass and do some real work. Non, pas acceptable!
Caveat: I speak as a developer, just recently I've been told I should be doing more project management / team leading / mentoring. Everytime I ask a developer how long a piece of code will take I get an answer that I know is ridiculously unrealistic. Most non-techie Project Managers would take a developers 'I can do that in an afternoon' at face value. Instead I've had to have long discussions with my guys so that they begin to think in a way that gives accurate estimates (i.e. accounting for a bit of 'I don't know why this isn't working' and accounting for the fact they may have to refactor a bits of code here and there to make it tidier, etc.). So, now that I'm been on the 'other side' I do understand how estimates can go haywire.
"all evidence suggests people are increasingly unwilling to be cut off from constant communication"... wouldn't it make MORE sense then to promote technology that allows you to be in communication without having to take your eyes off the road... like the same way you can talk to a passenger in the vehicle whilst driving?
I dunno, Apple's 'Siri Eyes Free' and initiatives by others are one route to this whilst driverless cars are the other. Engineers seem to pick losing battles by creating technology with a 'computer says no' mindset instead of focussing on technology that tries to safely accommodate what people want to do.
I for one hope Scott Tibbitts fails in this endeavour and learns enough from it to focus on progressive and enhancing technology rather than restrictive technology.
If this discussion is going to descend in to 'Hamas as terrorists' then we should recognise the use of the word 'terrorism' as an adjective used to vilify one side and make an opposing side seem legitimate. The American revolutionaries were also considered terrorists as was Ghandi and Nelson Mandela. However, I don’t support Hamas’ use of violence to further their desire for a sovereign state. In fact, the state of Israel itself was founded a ‘terrorist organisation’ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J... "The moment Hamas stops shooting, IDF stops shooting, period." - well that's great. But you realise Hamas are firing because they live in an occupation and under siege? They'll stop fighting when Israel pursues a 2-state strategy with sincerity. Israel has ignored its commitment to a 2-state solution in 2009. In 2012 it made agreements for a ceasefire but began laying siege to Gaza and throughout 2013 largely ignored any attempts of establishing peace (note: during this period Hamas had not killed or kidnapped a single Israeli civilian). In April this year, the talks collapsed as Abbas sought Palestinian membership in 15 UN conventions and reconciled with Hamas, and Israel made a surprise announcement of plans for 700 new settlements and refused to free a last batch of Palestinian prisoners which included Israeli-Arab citizens. That was April this year, before any of this conflict. Israel made clear it doesn't want Palestinians to pursue a non-violent route to statehood either. There you have it, if Israel wants peace it must offer the Palestinians what they have a right to - a fully functioning state with control over its own future. Don't call them Hamas terrorists for pursuing what they're entitled to and have been brutally denied even when seeking it peacefully.
Just another article that makes big claims yet shockingly thin on any details. How are we on /. meant to have any discussion on this when there's nothing tech-worthy - just some questionable allegations.
you can't have surprised customers unless you have customers.
He could (and probably would) be arrested for providing material useful to terrorists. Anyone who visits the site is likely to be placed under a veil of suspicion too. The most dangerous act of terrorism is about to be defined as.... 'thinking'.
Was he reported to throw it across the room when he heard it too did not come with Solitaire? I mean, how else was it gonna help him get through inane board meetings!?
I too had felt the same way, Java & .NET both seem like more modern development tools that free the developer from having to think about memory management and instead focus on what they want to create.
Having recently been using Objective-C my perspective has changed quite a bit. I have some background in C & assembly so the concept of managing memory is not entirely foreign. I am finding the Cocoa APIs to be very clean and nice to use. Managing memory is also not as painful an experience as I recall from my C days.
Objective-C apps should be more efficient (which really matters on battery-powered devices where processor usage is still important) and indeed it is. I believe it is one of the reasons Android and its apps still lag even when compared to older, less powerful Nokia phones.
before the Snowden revelations I would have believed that. Now it just seems like they're not able to maintain the same statement so they haven't updated it. Call me paranoid if you like but context has changed.
One of the big selling points of OSS is that software can be scrutinised for things like back doors. OpenSSL is indeed extremely popular as is OpenVPN - surprises me that the NSA and others have outwit the smart techies that should be able to spot weaknesses. Or perhaps we take OSS for granted so everyone assumes it has been scrutinised but no one actually bothers to analyse the code.
Hmm, so a quick browse over to http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/faq/community-software-general/295-are-there-any-known-security-vulnerabilities-with-openvpn.html and we see: "Are there any known security vulnerabilities with OpenVPN? Not to our knowledge (as of 2004.12.08)" Not to be paranoid, but is it too much to ask for them to update their knowledge by about a decade? Am a bit surprised that there doesn't seem to be much published analysis of the protocol.
When it comes to international standards I should remind everyone that the NSA doesn't need to do much to make those complicated and unwieldily. Look at SOAP or UML. For some reason when you gather an international consortium together to make a standard it is natural for it to be a huge WTF by the time it eventually becomes finalised. People feel the need to cater for every conceivable use case even if they're unlikely to be practical or real-world and often those pushing for things have very little grasp of the implications. Crypto related standards are different though, because you actually need people who know what they're doing. So apply the same approach to security and the resulting standard is bound to contain weaknesses. I would bet money that the NSA probably saved the IPSEC standards committee from making it overly weak (much like they enhanced DES when it was first created). Is there an open source alternative to IPSEC that has been scrutinised by cryptographers?