This is one reason that men should also get exactly as much paternity leave as women get maternity leave. It's counter-intuitive, but otherwise employers will always have that motivation to prefer men over women for positions.
Apparently the US has about 250 tons of nuclear waste. That should indeed fit in a not very large room - you could fit in barrels in a 20x20 meter room.
I do suspect that putting that much nuclear material in one room is a bad idea..;)
The apathy is because we vote for their candidates and they turn around and screw us over. Obamacare was really well appreciated, but he didn't really get much else done,
It's also been a punch in the nuts to the middle class, which has seen health care costs skyrocket, as usual. Meanwhile, the rich get to opt out in one way or another, and the poor get some shitty, substandard health care and feel grateful for it. Since the middle class is at its smallest size since... what was that depressing thing called again? I guess that won't affect voting much. Meanwhile, it should galvanize the poor, who think they're getting a great deal when they get the equivalent of table scraps of the rich, but taken from the middle class.
When Obama took office, there were two problems with medical care in the US:
1. Access 2. Cost
He decided to tackle access, and has basically succeeded at that. He decided to ignore cost, and things have not gotten better.
I think this was actually probably the correct move. Once people have had access to medical care for a while, taking it away will be difficult, so it was essential that this be done early.
The cost problem will need to be solved, and it will continue to get worse until no matter how conservative you are as a politician you will need to help fix it.
There are some hosting companies that promise they'll let you know when a warrant is executed, but those promises are empty when they are no longer allowed to tell you.
An automatic dishwasher is more for sanitizing than removing the mechanical aspects of hand washing.
There are two schools of thought about dishwashers. This is one.
The other schools is that a dishwasher is to replace hand washing.
I had a friend who was of the 2nd school, and his girlfriend was of the 1st school. He basically tied her down to a chair, loaded the dishwasher his way - without pre-washing, just shoving everything in. He started it.
They waited.
In the end, they opened it... AND THE DISHES WERE CLEAN.
I recommend you try the experiment. It might not work with your dishwasher (especially if you are an American and have a rental property, as landlords in the US put in the cheapest shit they can). But it might!!! Think of the hours of your life you'll get back....
If you look at deficit as a percentage of GDP it's not too bad:
Might want to look at total governmental debt instead of deficit. Deficit just marks the extent to which the debt is increasing year by year.
Or even look at current accounts deficit - the deficit ignoring interest on outstanding debt.
The comment I was replying to was discussing spending more money than taking in, which is the definition of deficit. My point is that compared to other industrialized countries, Greece is about middle of the pack regarding its deficit, so you need to look further than this simple explanation of Greece's woes.
At the end of the day, you just can't keep spending more than you take in. It's going to collapse at some point. Greece is one of the most notorious countries at doing this, and so they're the canary in the coal mine.
This is actually not true. If you look at deficit as a percentage of GDP it's not too bad:
What is unusual about Greece is that the GDP per capita has fallen for the past 6 years, under the fiscal policies imposed by the IMF. For comparison, the US had GDP per capita fall one year, Germany two, Holland three.
Fundamentally Greece had some corrupt government officials who lied. Sadly the financial wonks decided to use this opportunity to impose "reforms" to the Greek economy based on neoconservative economic pseudo-science, using latent racism and repressed notions of group punishment to motivate European societies with large lending institutions.:(
I checked briefly and I didn't see anything indicating that this increase was inflation-adjusted. (Perhaps I missed something in TFA or some other source?)
With 1.7% inflation throughout 2014, a 2% increase is basically keeping the funding the same.
Right now it just outputs a file with all of the meta-data (including SHA-224 hash of the file contents). If you think this seems interesting, I can whip up the part that uses that file to check the meta-data this weekend.
phillistines. ms-dos edit and then dos2unix when done
I remember learning the edlin command set pretty well. My roommate mocked me, but I defended this use of time by saying "every computer will always have edlin on it".
I can still feel the scorn of his laughter when MS-DOS 5.0 replaced my trusty edlin with that monstrous "edit" bloatware.:'(
This is somewhat disingenuous. Physics is physics and rocket technology hasn't improved much since the Centaur (hydrogen rocket) engine in the mid-1960s because they're already getting close to the theoretical maximum energy from chemical rockets. This is sort of like saying we shouldn't develop spoons and forks at the turn of the last millennium because by 1935 we'll have developed the spork. Cutlery has been a mature technology for about two thousand years now, and you can't really improve on it. Short of FTL travel we're looking at scramjets and multigenerational probes.
Cutlery has changed significantly, even in the 700 year period we were discussing:
I'm not sure how it affects your argument, but perhaps you should try to find an example of something that hasn't changed significantly in the past 700 years.
Actually, we did have a look at PowerDNS. I did a project with it at my last job. PowerDNS is not perfect, but it has a few good things that we want to also have in BIND 10. The generic back-ends is one, the fact that the code can be understood and fixed by a skilled programmer within a few hours instead of a few days is another. I also like a few "nice" things from the command line tools - although of course some choices are a bit broken.
While administrators will have to choose the best DNS software to fit their needs, I don't actually view it as a competition. In fact, a diverse code base is good for the Internet ecosystem. It limits the impact of bugs, exploits, and general design artifacts.
But be sure to use BIND 10 when it's ready for production.;)
One of the ideas of BIND 10 is to allow modules to be added to an already running system. Also, we want administrator tools to be able to ask the modules themselves what functionality is available. This allows relatively simple administrative tools to work with changing systems.
In order to do this, we need to have a mechanism for modules to report their capabilities. So, for example "I have a command called 'notify' which can be used to send a notify to my secondary servers, and it takes the parameter 'domain' which specifies the domain to send it from, and an optional parameter 'secondaries' which you can use to limit to a set of secondary servers".
The test code here exercises this generic capability.
The design for BIND 10 allows for generic back-ends. We implemented SQLite as the first one, simply because it was the easiest. One of our early goals for the second year of development is to support additional database back-ends (we call them "data sources"), including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and an in-memory 'database' (for performance-critical environments).
In the end we'll also support more exotic back-ends, like BDB, LDAP, directories, and possibly even the tinydns data format.
It's a release in the sense that we wanted to make it widely available for people to see what ideas we are playing with, and to get feedback and participation.
Joel has a lot of followers, but you shouldn't take what he says as holy writ. In fact, this very article is all about how we should still be using the old Netscape browser and not have started this crazy Mozilla project... you know, the one that resulted in Firefox?
I view the BIND 10 project in some ways as the DNS version of the Mozilla project - it is an ambitious rewrite, and will take a while to reach maturity. Luckily BIND 9 is still an excellent piece of software, so we have the luxury of enough time to get there.
BIND 9 is 10 years old, and was designed and implemented when the computing and Internet worlds were different than they are today. The architecture of BIND 9 - a monolithic, multithreaded program - does not lend itself well to today's DNS needs. So a new architecture is needed.
Originally we had planned on reusing a lot of the BIND 9 code. After all, like Joel says, it has been field-tested and is known to be high-quality in handling real-world DNS needs. However, the BIND 9 code has very, very high coupling. In order to make a small change or use an excerpt of code, you need to use the BIND 9 memory management system, and the BIND 9 task model, and the BIND 9 socket library, and so on. One of the reasons that BIND 9 needs to be rewritten is to make it possible to use the parts of the software you need to solve your problems without having to understand the entire system.
My theory is that the architectural problems would have been resolved over the decade of active use for BIND 9, as users submitted their patches and the developers periodically refactored the code. Unfortunately the BIND 9 project does not have an active community, either as developers or users. There are lots of people using BIND 9 (surveys put BIND 9 at about 80% of DNS servers on the Internet), but they have no group identity as BIND 9 users, and the direction and development of the software comes almost entirely from within ISC. This means it is an open source project that has resources limited in ways similar to proprietary software. If there was a BIND 9 community, then I think the software would have evolved with the times and a rewrite would not have been necessary.
For BIND 10, we want it to be an actual open source project, not just open source software. We have tried hard to be open and transparent about how BIND 10 is developed, and are trying to make it easy to participate in BIND 10. Hopefully this will be the last time a major rewrite is necessary, and the code base can evolve in any direction it needs to in the future, by maintaining a good connection with the people who actually use it.
The existing BIND 9 mechanism are not hard for your small domains that change rarely, but they don't work if you have tens or hundreds of thousands of domains that you manage, which change on a frequent basis. While this may not be interesting for you, there are many organizations for who this is a daily reality, and BIND 9 doesn't work well for them.
There are also organizations that have existing provisioning systems for large deployments, and would like their DNS to be better integrated... something today that usually means running Windows Active Directory or similar proprietary solutions.
There are also people running clusters of DNS servers, for increased performance, reduced network latency, and hardware redundancy. Managing "a few simple test [sic] based config files" across tens of computers distributed around the globe is a non-trivial task.
BIND 10 will continue to support text files for people who are comfortable with that, but will also have better mechanisms for people who prefer more modern ways.
The problem is that this is a shorthand phrase. in the US people mean 'take it off the table', where presumably it is already being considered. In her majesty's islands people mean 'put it on the table for future consideration'. The real problem is that verbing weirds language.
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This is one reason that men should also get exactly as much paternity leave as women get maternity leave. It's counter-intuitive, but otherwise employers will always have that motivation to prefer men over women for positions.
I was skeptical so I checked.
Apparently the US has about 250 tons of nuclear waste. That should indeed fit in a not very large room - you could fit in barrels in a 20x20 meter room.
I do suspect that putting that much nuclear material in one room is a bad idea.. ;)
The apathy is because we vote for their candidates and they turn around and screw us over. Obamacare was really well appreciated, but he didn't really get much else done,
It's also been a punch in the nuts to the middle class, which has seen health care costs skyrocket, as usual. Meanwhile, the rich get to opt out in one way or another, and the poor get some shitty, substandard health care and feel grateful for it. Since the middle class is at its smallest size since... what was that depressing thing called again? I guess that won't affect voting much. Meanwhile, it should galvanize the poor, who think they're getting a great deal when they get the equivalent of table scraps of the rich, but taken from the middle class.
When Obama took office, there were two problems with medical care in the US:
1. Access
2. Cost
He decided to tackle access, and has basically succeeded at that. He decided to ignore cost, and things have not gotten better.
I think this was actually probably the correct move. Once people have had access to medical care for a while, taking it away will be difficult, so it was essential that this be done early.
The cost problem will need to be solved, and it will continue to get worse until no matter how conservative you are as a politician you will need to help fix it.
This is Poe's Law, right?
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/P...
There are some hosting companies that promise they'll let you know when a warrant is executed, but those promises are empty when they are no longer allowed to tell you.
There are some who provide a warrant canary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I guess you're suggesting the future is WALL-E, not Star Trek? ;)
An automatic dishwasher is more for sanitizing than removing the mechanical aspects of hand washing.
There are two schools of thought about dishwashers. This is one.
The other schools is that a dishwasher is to replace hand washing.
I had a friend who was of the 2nd school, and his girlfriend was of the 1st school. He basically tied her down to a chair, loaded the dishwasher his way - without pre-washing, just shoving everything in. He started it.
They waited.
In the end, they opened it... AND THE DISHES WERE CLEAN.
I recommend you try the experiment. It might not work with your dishwasher (especially if you are an American and have a rental property, as landlords in the US put in the cheapest shit they can). But it might!!! Think of the hours of your life you'll get back....
I 90% agree with this. I don't see the point of the BSD license, really.
However, BSD does have "brand recognition", so there is that small point in its favor.
Might want to look at total governmental debt instead of deficit. Deficit just marks the extent to which the debt is increasing year by year.
Or even look at current accounts deficit - the deficit ignoring interest on outstanding debt.
The comment I was replying to was discussing spending more money than taking in, which is the definition of deficit. My point is that compared to other industrialized countries, Greece is about middle of the pack regarding its deficit, so you need to look further than this simple explanation of Greece's woes.
At the end of the day, you just can't keep spending more than you take in. It's going to collapse at some point. Greece is one of the most notorious countries at doing this, and so they're the canary in the coal mine.
This is actually not true. If you look at deficit as a percentage of GDP it's not too bad:
USA: 5.8%
UK: 5.7%
France: 4.0%
Greece: 3.5%
Netherlands: 2.3%
Canada: 1.8%
Switzerland: 0.0%
Germany: -0.7% (surplus!)
What is unusual about Greece is that the GDP per capita has fallen for the past 6 years, under the fiscal policies imposed by the IMF. For comparison, the US had GDP per capita fall one year, Germany two, Holland three.
Fundamentally Greece had some corrupt government officials who lied. Sadly the financial wonks decided to use this opportunity to impose "reforms" to the Greek economy based on neoconservative economic pseudo-science, using latent racism and repressed notions of group punishment to motivate European societies with large lending institutions. :(
I checked briefly and I didn't see anything indicating that this increase was inflation-adjusted. (Perhaps I missed something in TFA or some other source?)
With 1.7% inflation throughout 2014, a 2% increase is basically keeping the funding the same.
I know it's not really an answer to your question since it's not done, but I started a tool to save and check metadata of files:
https://github.com/shane-kerr/fileinfo
Right now it just outputs a file with all of the meta-data (including SHA-224 hash of the file contents). If you think this seems interesting, I can whip up the part that uses that file to check the meta-data this weekend.
phillistines. ms-dos edit and then dos2unix when done
I remember learning the edlin command set pretty well. My roommate mocked me, but I defended this use of time by saying "every computer will always have edlin on it".
I can still feel the scorn of his laughter when MS-DOS 5.0 replaced my trusty edlin with that monstrous "edit" bloatware. :'(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin
I'm happy to see that the FreeDOS project includes a GPL-licensed version of my beloved edlin...
"edit" indeed!
This is somewhat disingenuous. Physics is physics and rocket technology hasn't improved much since the Centaur (hydrogen rocket) engine in the mid-1960s because they're already getting close to the theoretical maximum energy from chemical rockets. This is sort of like saying we shouldn't develop spoons and forks at the turn of the last millennium because by 1935 we'll have developed the spork. Cutlery has been a mature technology for about two thousand years now, and you can't really improve on it. Short of FTL travel we're looking at scramjets and multigenerational probes.
Cutlery has changed significantly, even in the 700 year period we were discussing:
Slate article
I'm not sure how it affects your argument, but perhaps you should try to find an example of something that hasn't changed significantly in the past 700 years.
Much less, I'd say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJWmdnxEFc
Actually, we did have a look at PowerDNS. I did a project with it at my last job. PowerDNS is not perfect, but it has a few good things that we want to also have in BIND 10. The generic back-ends is one, the fact that the code can be understood and fixed by a skilled programmer within a few hours instead of a few days is another. I also like a few "nice" things from the command line tools - although of course some choices are a bit broken.
While administrators will have to choose the best DNS software to fit their needs, I don't actually view it as a competition. In fact, a diverse code base is good for the Internet ecosystem. It limits the impact of bugs, exploits, and general design artifacts.
But be sure to use BIND 10 when it's ready for production. ;)
[ disclaimer - I am the BIND 10 project manager ]
One of the ideas of BIND 10 is to allow modules to be added to an already running system. Also, we want administrator tools to be able to ask the modules themselves what functionality is available. This allows relatively simple administrative tools to work with changing systems.
In order to do this, we need to have a mechanism for modules to report their capabilities. So, for example "I have a command called 'notify' which can be used to send a notify to my secondary servers, and it takes the parameter 'domain' which specifies the domain to send it from, and an optional parameter 'secondaries' which you can use to limit to a set of secondary servers".
The test code here exercises this generic capability.
[ disclaimer - I am the BIND 10 project manager ]
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1589160&cid=31548122
The design for BIND 10 allows for generic back-ends. We implemented SQLite as the first one, simply because it was the easiest. One of our early goals for the second year of development is to support additional database back-ends (we call them "data sources"), including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and an in-memory 'database' (for performance-critical environments).
In the end we'll also support more exotic back-ends, like BDB, LDAP, directories, and possibly even the tinydns data format.
[ disclaimer - I am the BIND 10 project manager ]
Basically, someone once wrote a convincing text which says: Release Early, Release Often.
It's a release in the sense that we wanted to make it widely available for people to see what ideas we are playing with, and to get feedback and participation.
[ disclaimer - I am the BIND 10 project manager ]
Joel has a lot of followers, but you shouldn't take what he says as holy writ. In fact, this very article is all about how we should still be using the old Netscape browser and not have started this crazy Mozilla project... you know, the one that resulted in Firefox?
I view the BIND 10 project in some ways as the DNS version of the Mozilla project - it is an ambitious rewrite, and will take a while to reach maturity. Luckily BIND 9 is still an excellent piece of software, so we have the luxury of enough time to get there.
BIND 9 is 10 years old, and was designed and implemented when the computing and Internet worlds were different than they are today. The architecture of BIND 9 - a monolithic, multithreaded program - does not lend itself well to today's DNS needs. So a new architecture is needed.
Originally we had planned on reusing a lot of the BIND 9 code. After all, like Joel says, it has been field-tested and is known to be high-quality in handling real-world DNS needs. However, the BIND 9 code has very, very high coupling. In order to make a small change or use an excerpt of code, you need to use the BIND 9 memory management system, and the BIND 9 task model, and the BIND 9 socket library, and so on. One of the reasons that BIND 9 needs to be rewritten is to make it possible to use the parts of the software you need to solve your problems without having to understand the entire system.
My theory is that the architectural problems would have been resolved over the decade of active use for BIND 9, as users submitted their patches and the developers periodically refactored the code. Unfortunately the BIND 9 project does not have an active community, either as developers or users. There are lots of people using BIND 9 (surveys put BIND 9 at about 80% of DNS servers on the Internet), but they have no group identity as BIND 9 users, and the direction and development of the software comes almost entirely from within ISC. This means it is an open source project that has resources limited in ways similar to proprietary software. If there was a BIND 9 community, then I think the software would have evolved with the times and a rewrite would not have been necessary.
For BIND 10, we want it to be an actual open source project, not just open source software. We have tried hard to be open and transparent about how BIND 10 is developed, and are trying to make it easy to participate in BIND 10. Hopefully this will be the last time a major rewrite is necessary, and the code base can evolve in any direction it needs to in the future, by maintaining a good connection with the people who actually use it.
[ disclaimer - I am the BIND 10 project manager ]
There is no "BIND 10 committee", but we do have weekly conference calls. Minutes from these are published on our Trac site:
https://bind10.isc.org/wiki/WeeklyConferenceCalls
[ disclaimer: I am the BIND 10 project manager ]
The existing BIND 9 mechanism are not hard for your small domains that change rarely, but they don't work if you have tens or hundreds of thousands of domains that you manage, which change on a frequent basis. While this may not be interesting for you, there are many organizations for who this is a daily reality, and BIND 9 doesn't work well for them.
There are also organizations that have existing provisioning systems for large deployments, and would like their DNS to be better integrated... something today that usually means running Windows Active Directory or similar proprietary solutions.
There are also people running clusters of DNS servers, for increased performance, reduced network latency, and hardware redundancy. Managing "a few simple test [sic] based config files" across tens of computers distributed around the globe is a non-trivial task.
BIND 10 will continue to support text files for people who are comfortable with that, but will also have better mechanisms for people who prefer more modern ways.
[ disclaimer - I'm the BIND 10 project manager ]
The problem is that this is a shorthand phrase. in the US people mean 'take it off the table', where presumably it is already being considered. In her majesty's islands people mean 'put it on the table for future consideration'. The real problem is that verbing weirds language.