I remember starting disliking de Icaza back in my university days. Hm, that's a long time ago. Back when de Icaza was starting the Mono think. Ye gods.
However, let me react to one thing you're saying:
I understand that Android does not ship with much GNU or GNOME software, but GNU and GNOME are what built Linux. Without either, the foundations upon which Android runs would never have accreted enough functionality to even think about running a smartphone.
I'm sorry, but this is very wrong. Gnome is the fragmentation. Instead of joining forces with KDE, even after QT was free, they continued down the fragmented road.
de Icaza has done more damage to free software than good. Let me be the first to say 'good riddance'.
But at the same time, I love it. It has knit Europe together so that it has a shared destiny. This prevents wars.
It has knit Europe together, so that we don't have shitloads of border controls. We can travel between countries without passports (Well, at least between the schengen members).
Now - there are plenty bad things about the EU - but there are so many good things too.
KDE3 was extremely nice. Loved it. It only suffered from the devs punting some bugs until QT4 and KDE4 was available. I looked forward to KDE4 with great joy... but was left with the stinking pile of poo, which is KDE4.
So, gnome2 didn't seem half bad. Use it at work, and well, it works.
gnome3 on the other hand. *sigh*.
Unity can go hang itself.
So, I guess I'll try for xf[cd]e next. I'm rather disappointed, as I used to be a huge KDE fan.:-(
There is a slight uncertainty in the amount of time he can be convicted for. I've seen some law students suggest that he can be convicted with reference to 'Straffeloven' Â61 . There are plenty of charges that can be laid down, all with the maximum of 21 years in jail. Â61 seems to open up for the possibility of doubling the term to 42 years (consecutive sentences). However, this might contradict Â17, which defines the maximum sentence to be 21 years. Â17 might be the stronger paragraph.
IANAL, so I have no idea which one trumps which.
However, when it comes to when he'll be released.. we've got something called "forvaring", which might be translated into something along the lines of "preventive detention". If he's convicted to 21 years + "forvaring", the later part of the sentence opens up the possibility of renewing the sentence 5 or 10 years at a time (can't remember which) - until he's no longer considered a danger to society. This is not considered a/punishment/, but rather considered protecting society as he's too dangerous to be released.
Considering the facts that he has already perpetrated a bombing+massacre, and that he has the knowledge on how to make rather powerful bombs, in addition to living in a sort of alternate reality.. I doubt he'll ever get out of the 'forvaring'. He's quite simply too dangerous, and as long as he's mentally lucid - he could make new bombs.
Just re-image all servers running the thing, one by one, to ensure no backdoors remain, and bring it all back up
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a perfect example of how Sony/not/ should do it.
The gentleman known as "shutdown -p now", seems to suggest that Sony should use their energy to get the servers back into a state where they can be re-breached within minutes of going back online!
Of course, this is exactly what we should expect from armchair know-it-alls. One should not trust sysadmins / system engineers who knows the situation and how to take care of it. The armchair know-it-all will scream "No! They made it this bad in the first place" - without caring one moment to think about the layer known as "management". The layer that demands that "if it works, do not touch it at all! it works! Downtime is Verboten!"
It doesn't take two weeks!
They have to:
1. Remake installation routine
2. Reinstall servers
3. Reinstall software
4. Reload the user data.. this is probably done within a day or two.
Then they have to:
5. Harden the new systems.
6. Harden the firewalls.
7. Pentest the shit out of it
8. Get it audited.
9. Re-harden, according to audit-report
10. Get audited again.
11. Repeat the two steps above until audit report is clean.
And this didn't even touch onto the huge topic of making sure that there isn't any breach of workstations that can be used to gain administrative access to the systems and so forth. It doesn't touch upon the topic of verifying user data integrity. It doesn't touch upon the topic of checking for backdoors that gains the attacker elevated access to the network, without admin privileges (but with an easier attack vector from being completely outside).
Also, do read the german wikipedia article about it through Google Translate.
It's rather interesting that Pebble Bed is continously pushed as 'the future of nuclear power' on the internets, at the same time that AVR turned out to be rather.. interesting.
looking around my desktop right now, while posting to slashdot, I have chromium running, and 7 xterms. Two of'em are running irssi, the others are just nice little windows to do various bits of work in.
I live and breathe in a CLI environment. I can't really remember doing much useful in GUI's except lookup information (for which it's suited perfectly well).
But why on earth would you do configuration in a GUI? Why would you ever program in a GUI, instead of vim or emacs?
This really depends on the country in question, but there are many way s to gain access to the Internet. If the country is connected to more free country by land, it should be possible to set up RONJA-devices for cross-border communication. (For more information about RONJA: http://ronja.twibright.com/ ). The devices might seem very conspicious but can be made to be less obvious. If using light outside the visible range, this might be a rather good alternative. Not easily blocked with radio-jamming neither.
One can further develop this with more links once inside the country - from location to location, without links that are easy to shut down without knowledge of their location available for the government.
Directional antennas for wireless devices is another alternative - but those are easier to jam with interference.
Now, it's a completely different ballpark if you don't have any friendly regimes close by. If you're an island nation (say cuba, australia, or others) - you might have to piggyback on existing communication links, and if the links themselves are completely severed - like they were in Egypt - it automatically gets more difficult. You'll need to piggyback on radio or satelite. I don't know the current state of packet radio, nor do I know how easy it is to trace or jam - but my suspicion is that it would be relatively easy to both track down and to jam.
Satelite, as pointed out in the article, is expensive. I do seem to remember some satelites having support for relaying messages for free for people using amateur radio - however - I suspect this is for voice communication and not for packet radio. It should, however, be possible to get tweets out if you can find someone to type them in outside of the country. Not easy to upload stuff to youtube using this, though.
I recently invested in a couple of 'Das Keybard's. One for home and one for work. They're expensive as heck, but I haven't regretted it for a second. The only person who doesn't like it is my wife, who complains that she cannot use my computer since she can't read the keys (it's one of those all-black unlabeled ones).
The tactile feedback of a proper keyboard is important. Extremely important. I hate using laptops, quite simply because their keyboards suck.
Leap seconds the way they're handled in Unix (and probably a lot of other platforms) is straight out stupid.
The definition of how time is accounted for in Unix needs to change from being bound to UTC, to being bound to TAI. This, in addition to an/etc/leapseconds or somesuch which keeps track of when to insert leapseconds (can probably be distributed via ntp - if not yet, it should be simple enough to make it so).
Now, with the system clock running TAI, and an/etc/leapseconds file, the system libraries should return the correct time according to the configured LOCALE, as long as it takes the skew from/etc/leapseconds into account. At the same time, seconds from epoch, if you want them, would be monotonically increasing and not fucked around with just because of some leapseconds.
Indeed. I've been arguing for using TAI as the basis for unix time for a while, then have various time-functions return UTC.
One could have an/etc/leapseconds that is kept up to date by ntp, which gets its leapseconds from it's upstream ntp-servers. It could simply list the seconds-from-epoch where a leap should be inserted. In other words, it would slowly be appended to whenver a new leapsecond is announced.
Libraries read/etc/leapseconds to figure out how to convert TAI to whatever timezone the user wants.
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Look at the European Union and the Euro.
Then look at Greece.
That is how Argentina would look if they started using the dollar.
Bollocks on the "rich or the poor".
You immediately know whether they're a saver or a spender.
I remember starting disliking de Icaza back in my university days. Hm, that's a long time ago. Back when de Icaza was starting the Mono think. Ye gods.
However, let me react to one thing you're saying:
I understand that Android does not ship with much GNU or GNOME software, but GNU and GNOME are what built Linux. Without either, the foundations upon which Android runs would never have accreted enough functionality to even think about running a smartphone.
I'm sorry, but this is very wrong. Gnome is the fragmentation. Instead of joining forces with KDE, even after QT was free, they continued down the fragmented road.
de Icaza has done more damage to free software than good. Let me be the first to say 'good riddance'.
No, we expect prosecutors not to be utter shitbags. This one Carmen M Ortiz is obviously a psychopath that should never ever serve in a public office.
She needs to hear that she's nothing but a mean, horrible subhuman.
Yes. I dislike lots of stuff about the EU.
But at the same time, I love it. It has knit Europe together so that it has a shared destiny. This prevents wars.
It has knit Europe together, so that we don't have shitloads of border controls. We can travel between countries without passports (Well, at least between the schengen members).
Now - there are plenty bad things about the EU - but there are so many good things too.
And the US has obscenity and defamation .. so .. not really free speech there neither.
Zimmerman? Is that some US guy?
Can someone please fire the moronic US-centered slashdot-editors that has no geeky credentials whatsoever? Like samzenpus? Please?
The entire zimmerman-case has NOTHING to do with geeky news.
*Sigh*.
So, that's how it's gonna be no that CmdrTaco is gone.
From my heart - to whomever the moron who made this decision was: FUCK YOU.
Ye of little history.
This is not the first time a hardware manufacturer has been hit by a natural calamity. Prices go up for a while, then they come down.
Earthquakes, fires, floods. They've all happened before in Asia. Prices always come down again after a relatively short while.
KDE left the ring with KDE4.
KDE3 was extremely nice. Loved it. It only suffered from the devs punting some bugs until QT4 and KDE4 was available. I looked forward to KDE4 with great joy. .. but was left with the stinking pile of poo, which is KDE4.
So, gnome2 didn't seem half bad. Use it at work, and well, it works.
gnome3 on the other hand. *sigh*.
Unity can go hang itself.
So, I guess I'll try for xf[cd]e next. I'm rather disappointed, as I used to be a huge KDE fan. :-(
I'm Norwegian.
There is a slight uncertainty in the amount of time he can be convicted for. I've seen some law students suggest that he can be convicted with reference to 'Straffeloven' Â61 . There are plenty of charges that can be laid down, all with the maximum of 21 years in jail. Â61 seems to open up for the possibility of doubling the term to 42 years (consecutive sentences). However, this might contradict Â17, which defines the maximum sentence to be 21 years. Â17 might be the stronger paragraph.
IANAL, so I have no idea which one trumps which.
However, when it comes to when he'll be released.. we've got something called "forvaring", which might be translated into something along the lines of "preventive detention". If he's convicted to 21 years + "forvaring", the later part of the sentence opens up the possibility of renewing the sentence 5 or 10 years at a time (can't remember which) - until he's no longer considered a danger to society. This is not considered a /punishment/, but rather considered protecting society as he's too dangerous to be released.
Considering the facts that he has already perpetrated a bombing+massacre, and that he has the knowledge on how to make rather powerful bombs, in addition to living in a sort of alternate reality .. I doubt he'll ever get out of the 'forvaring'. He's quite simply too dangerous, and as long as he's mentally lucid - he could make new bombs.
Bombing seems to just have been a diversion tactic. It killed at least 7.
The real target seems to have been AUF at UtÃya, where he has killed at least 84.
Unfortunately, he was extremely competent at terror. :-(
I can't for the life of me understand why anything in the picture you've linked as "fscked up beyond hope" is difficult to navigate.
But I'm used to roundabouts.
Time for you americans to get used to them too. They are _way_ more efficient.
No. The age of consent in Norway is 16, not 18.
And it's down to 14, not 16.
Just re-image all servers running the thing, one by one, to ensure no backdoors remain, and bring it all back up
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a perfect example of how Sony /not/ should do it.
The gentleman known as "shutdown -p now", seems to suggest that Sony should use their energy to get the servers back into a state where they can be re-breached within minutes of going back online!
Of course, this is exactly what we should expect from armchair know-it-alls. One should not trust sysadmins / system engineers who knows the situation and how to take care of it. The armchair know-it-all will scream "No! They made it this bad in the first place" - without caring one moment to think about the layer known as "management". The layer that demands that "if it works, do not touch it at all! it works! Downtime is Verboten!"
It doesn't take two weeks!
They have to: .. this is probably done within a day or two.
1. Remake installation routine
2. Reinstall servers
3. Reinstall software
4. Reload the user data
Then they have to:
5. Harden the new systems.
6. Harden the firewalls.
7. Pentest the shit out of it
8. Get it audited.
9. Re-harden, according to audit-report
10. Get audited again.
11. Repeat the two steps above until audit report is clean.
And this didn't even touch onto the huge topic of making sure that there isn't any breach of workstations that can be used to gain administrative access to the systems and so forth. It doesn't touch upon the topic of verifying user data integrity. It doesn't touch upon the topic of checking for backdoors that gains the attacker elevated access to the network, without admin privileges (but with an easier attack vector from being completely outside).
Meh!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor
Also, do read the german wikipedia article about it through Google Translate.
It's rather interesting that Pebble Bed is continously pushed as 'the future of nuclear power' on the internets, at the same time that AVR turned out to be rather .. interesting.
I haven't used windows since '99.
looking around my desktop right now, while posting to slashdot, I have chromium running, and 7 xterms. Two of'em are running irssi, the others are just nice little windows to do various bits of work in.
I live and breathe in a CLI environment. I can't really remember doing much useful in GUI's except lookup information (for which it's suited perfectly well).
But why on earth would you do configuration in a GUI? Why would you ever program in a GUI, instead of vim or emacs?
I just don't get it.
This really depends on the country in question, but there are many way s to gain access to the Internet. If the country is connected to more free country by land, it should be possible to set up RONJA-devices for cross-border communication. (For more information about RONJA: http://ronja.twibright.com/ ). The devices might seem very conspicious but can be made to be less obvious. If using light outside the visible range, this might be a rather good alternative. Not easily blocked with radio-jamming neither.
One can further develop this with more links once inside the country - from location to location, without links that are easy to shut down without knowledge of their location available for the government.
Directional antennas for wireless devices is another alternative - but those are easier to jam with interference.
Now, it's a completely different ballpark if you don't have any friendly regimes close by. If you're an island nation (say cuba, australia, or others) - you might have to piggyback on existing communication links, and if the links themselves are completely severed - like they were in Egypt - it automatically gets more difficult. You'll need to piggyback on radio or satelite. I don't know the current state of packet radio, nor do I know how easy it is to trace or jam - but my suspicion is that it would be relatively easy to both track down and to jam.
Satelite, as pointed out in the article, is expensive. I do seem to remember some satelites having support for relaying messages for free for people using amateur radio - however - I suspect this is for voice communication and not for packet radio. It should, however, be possible to get tweets out if you can find someone to type them in outside of the country. Not easy to upload stuff to youtube using this, though.
Other ideas?
You're a slashdot reader.
And you start talking about.. what? "penta"bytes?
It's called _PETA_bytes, dumbass. Go see the fucking SI-prefixes. Then think at least 20 times before ever posting again. This is just too stupid.
Yes, I know the fucking article you're talking is just as dumb, but that doesn't excuse you for being a dimwit.
Sheeez.
I agree with you 100%.
I recently invested in a couple of 'Das Keybard's. One for home and one for work. They're expensive as heck, but I haven't regretted it for a second. The only person who doesn't like it is my wife, who complains that she cannot use my computer since she can't read the keys (it's one of those all-black unlabeled ones).
The tactile feedback of a proper keyboard is important. Extremely important. I hate using laptops, quite simply because their keyboards suck.
Typed on my 'Das Keyboard'.
Bullshit.
Those of us who bothered sit through the trial knows exactly what he did, and how.
Of course there are a lot of morons, such as you, who tries to change history. Now go fuck yourself.
I'll stay away from your Flame-bait
I seldomly respond to trolls like you. But let me just say it clear and simple: Go sunbathing.
(Trolls, as we all know, turn into stone in the sun).
This is another way of telling you to go fornicate yourself.
Norwegian gasoline prices: Aproximately 12NOK per liter. That means 7.34USD per gallon of fuel.
Complain all you want about the gas-prices increasing to 8-10USD/gallon, but seriously, other countries can cope. So can you.
Not only Oracle.
Leap seconds the way they're handled in Unix (and probably a lot of other platforms) is straight out stupid.
The definition of how time is accounted for in Unix needs to change from being bound to UTC, to being bound to TAI. This, in addition to an /etc/leapseconds or somesuch which keeps track of when to insert leapseconds (can probably be distributed via ntp - if not yet, it should be simple enough to make it so).
Now, with the system clock running TAI, and an /etc/leapseconds file, the system libraries should return the correct time according to the configured LOCALE, as long as it takes the skew from /etc/leapseconds into account. At the same time, seconds from epoch, if you want them, would be monotonically increasing and not fucked around with just because of some leapseconds.
Indeed. I've been arguing for using TAI as the basis for unix time for a while, then have various time-functions return UTC.
One could have an /etc/leapseconds that is kept up to date by ntp, which gets its leapseconds from it's upstream ntp-servers. It could simply list the seconds-from-epoch where a leap should be inserted. In other words, it would slowly be appended to whenver a new leapsecond is announced.
Libraries read /etc/leapseconds to figure out how to convert TAI to whatever timezone the user wants.