There is no such thing as "free speech with consequences."
Yes, there is. It is called libel, defamation, and harrassment.
But judging from your post, you've never heard of these words and their relationship to the 1st amendment. There is no absolute right to "truly free speech". It is to be balanced with other rights of other people.
I can't count the amount of Android apps that I didn't install because they want to have r/w access to my contacts, even though they obviously don't need it for their functionality.
There are also too many apps that demand an Internet connectivity where I ask myself why. Or I had to deinstall apps where the background process keeps downloading data all the time that I only need on a holiday, but not now; and I found no way of disabling the background process short of deinstallation (without rooting the phone, then means are available).
So I'd say, Android has it's similar share of problems.
The technical part of the/. crowd uses the term "the web" as a synonym for the set of Internet service that communicate via HTTP on publically reachable IP adresses, maybe encrypted via TLS. Very often, access via browsers is also considered an important attribute of "the web".
US' persons views on their soldiers is always "interesting".
In my country, a soldier would be expected to go beyond his command structure if he has information of the type that Manning had. In fact, theoretically he should be persecuted if he doesn't do so -- but sadly, that persecution doesn't succeed. (Witness Oberst Klein at the Kunduz bombing.)
I know that there are a few questions that no one on my team or my boss could definitively answer.
Then your boss doesn't know how to do his work. If you get run over by a bus and lie for a few month in coma in a hospital, what would he do then? Fire you?
If what you're writing is right, you're a SPOF in your company, and that must not happen. At least, in the company where I'm CEO of, I wouldn't let it happen...
(1) Maybe he's not able to select his working times himselves? (I don't.)
(2) Allocating time slots for various activities (movies, cinema, concerts, usual eating times) is not done by oneself, but by our social environment. As, in Real Life (tm). And they care for these old-fashioned digits on the clock.
(3) 8am? What's this? I've heard of it, but I doubt it exists.:-):-)
I myself like widescreen, after all our EYES are oriented on a "wide" manner.
This statement is against every research report that I ever read on that topic.
All typography research shows that readibility slows down after more than 70 columns. Your statement is false, IMNSHO. Human perception is not best supported by "wide" manner. Except if you think that looking at Hollywood movies is the equivalent to human perception. Me, I decline to go as low.
Well, at many customers I have a 2nd monitor. At my company, where I do real work, I have only one.
And I'm the CEO, so it's not about money. (A lot of my staff have two monitors, or more -- and they get all they want; it's ridiculous to discuss about the low prices that are involved here in our line of business.)
The real difference: At my work place, I have a *real* big one of the old 24" 4:3 monitors. When this one dies, with this crap of 16:9 monitors en vogue now, I'll have to get two. I don't look video at work; I don't need widescreen. Give me lots of vertical space, and I'm much more happy. But the hardware industry is driven by consumer market today, no hope to get better. (Don't make me start about that insane disk companies...;-)
I'm a CEO, in Germany, of a small/mid-sized company (10 persons + freelancers). If one of my tech staff needs an item below 1.000 EUR to work better, I tell them to buy it and please don't bother me with it. Just make sure that there's a proper invoice for the books.
If my company doesn't make enough money to support this mode of operations; I'd close it down -- it'll be dead in a few months/years anyhow. In the European countries and in the US, where I know the economic situation, this kind of costs are swamped away by cost of operations, and cost of staff. Especially, since it's a one-term cost, and not an ongoing cost on the budget. Any tech staff person costs me at least 100.000 EUR per year, to veto any monitor that makes him more productive doesn't come into consideration at all, that would be foolish.
Wow. In the early 90s, I was responsible to connect the first Rumanian universities (Bucharest, in particular) to the Internet. Since we couldn't get IP going for various technical reasons, we decided to get them email in the mean time, at least.
The first try was with uucp, but they couldn't handle its operations on the Bucharest side. Phone lines weren't stable enough, then. So, for the 1st 6 months, email was sent to Bucharest by Kermit file transfer, triggered by a hodge-podge of MDA scripts, invoked by sendmail. Kermit was way more robust than any other file transfer protocol at this time, we believed eventually it could handle bit transfers over wet clothes lines.
After 6 months, we got uucp going, after getting more help with the network connection from government and EU. Some more months later, we got IP going. Those of you who take always-online for granted don't know at all what effort it takes to make that work.
Ah, I think I'm getting old. Get off my lawn...:-):-):-)
You mean, the great American ingenuity shown during Katarina aftermath and New Orleans rebuild? Or the other one, shown while building atom reactors directly in high-risk Californian earthquake areas?
I've got a question for all those folks who brag about $n$-years uptime and no need to reboot:
What system are you running that doesn't need a kernel security update?
I'd really like to know, I'd love to run such a system myself. All the systems that I run, need kernel updates a few times a year; and thus needs to be rebooted.
Well, since I'm running my servers in HA environments anyhow, reboot confirms that no non-kernel updates messed with boot configuration w/o any loss for availability. So, it's not so bad after all.
Of course Google filters searches, and they did it right from the start. It's called ranking search results, using negative cost functions. And here they even don't filter search results, but autocomplete proposals. These proposals are not equivalent to popular search stats and never should be. They shall present choices that are relevant for the search, for whatever metrics Google uses for relevance. Now they changed their relevance metrics for autocomplete proposals. Do you also get a fit when they change their page ranking metrics every few weeks and most popular stats are not first on search results any more?
Most popular is a damned bad as a sole metrics for search results and if they really used it, they would deserve to be taken over by Bing. But that's still not the case.
I don't think you understand the value of Gartner Group reports. They don't tell about probable developments and trends, they tell what the majority of business and technical managers think about trends and where they will make their investments. And that's a very valuable service if you know how to take it.
Debian favours as much as possible having configurations for complex services in its own directory, '/etc/complexservice.d/' where you drop "config snippets" instead of a big/etc/complexservice.conf file. If Suse did the same, YaST could be able to tweak the config snippets you allow it and you could manage by hand the ones you wanted/needed.
YaST does this for its Apache configuration. It has even files/directories that are meant to be edited by hand. That's why the OP wrote about "lots of files lying around", instead of one big beavy httpd.conf. I assume that he would be even more disturbed by Debian's available/enabled scheme.
The point is: If one wants to use both the automated tools of a distribution and edit files manually, be it with YaST or a2{en,dis}{mod,site}, one needs to understand the structure. And then one should RTFM and skim the configuration files. Both Debian's scheme and SUSE's scheme (as employed by YaST) are documented there.
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That's not quite right.
He uses email; his secretary prints them out (after some selection) and forwards them.
And he reacts to them. Well, at least, to some, if he knows you. Don is the most humble genius that I know, and I have always found him approachable in a way that is rare for other famous people.
He also uses email (typically via his secretary, again) to organize trips. I also have direct emails from him when some new TeX developments irks him.
Changing the MHz setting doesn't help always; sometimes the clock source (hpet vs. pit) is an issue as well. Sometimes none of the methods listed in VMware's tech note about timekeeping issues helps.
The broken time sync is a VMware problem that's independent of the respective distribution. A lot of my customers have it with RHEL as well.
Interestingly, newer VMware workstation products don't have it any more, while the server products still have that issue. Lately, I'm sincerely waiting for other virtualization products to catch up, to be able to evaluate a switch.
Great, but then they just should pass on comments like "this sounds like an audiophile talking about magic cables". Since they have no clue what they are talking about and stuff...
Why? He hit it on the mark: As an audiophile, I can tell you that proper selection of cables is very important for high-end equipment, but that's surely "digging deep" for most people.
The GGP (don't know if that was you) wrote about "slick GUI vs. XUL". That's surely on a level where anybody who's not interested in Firefox's or Opera's implementation details gets to know the difference between them for a user-level point of view. It's also "digging deep". So the GP asked for end-user oriented information about the differences -- why should he need to "have a clue" to ask such a question? Are only those who know XUL and native GUI programming by heart are allowed to ask about differences on the end-user level?
Dunno, but I found the question interesting and I would have liked to get more informed responses, as I use neither Firefox nor Opera. (I'm a Seamonkey user, FWIW.)
even on a good dedicated Usenet server (I've used several - most recently Astraweb, but I've also used Teranews and Giganews in the past), any group that is not moderated is FLOODED with spam
If they are FLOODED with spam, they may be dedicated, but they are not good. In the newsgroups of my Usenet provider appears virtually no spam.
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Since when are hispanic folks not "white"? Did I miss a shift into a parallel universe?
Yes, there is. It is called libel, defamation, and harrassment.
But judging from your post, you've never heard of these words and their relationship to the 1st amendment. There is no absolute right to "truly free speech". It is to be balanced with other rights of other people.
There are also too many apps that demand an Internet connectivity where I ask myself why. Or I had to deinstall apps where the background process keeps downloading data all the time that I only need on a holiday, but not now; and I found no way of disabling the background process short of deinstallation (without rooting the phone, then means are available).
So I'd say, Android has it's similar share of problems.
Just FYI:
The technical part of the /. crowd uses the term "the web" as a synonym for the set of Internet service that communicate via HTTP on publically reachable IP adresses, maybe encrypted via TLS. Very often, access via browsers is also considered an important attribute of "the web".
NTP has none of these attributes.
In my country, a soldier would be expected to go beyond his command structure if he has information of the type that Manning had. In fact, theoretically he should be persecuted if he doesn't do so -- but sadly, that persecution doesn't succeed. (Witness Oberst Klein at the Kunduz bombing.)
I applaud your comment, and would have liked to still have them.
Then your boss doesn't know how to do his work. If you get run over by a bus and lie for a few month in coma in a hospital, what would he do then? Fire you?
If what you're writing is right, you're a SPOF in your company, and that must not happen. At least, in the company where I'm CEO of, I wouldn't let it happen...
(2) Allocating time slots for various activities (movies, cinema, concerts, usual eating times) is not done by oneself, but by our social environment. As, in Real Life (tm). And they care for these old-fashioned digits on the clock.
(3) 8am? What's this? I've heard of it, but I doubt it exists. :-) :-)
This statement is against every research report that I ever read on that topic.
All typography research shows that readibility slows down after more than 70 columns. Your statement is false, IMNSHO. Human perception is not best supported by "wide" manner. Except if you think that looking at Hollywood movies is the equivalent to human perception. Me, I decline to go as low.
And I'm the CEO, so it's not about money. (A lot of my staff have two monitors, or more -- and they get all they want; it's ridiculous to discuss about the low prices that are involved here in our line of business.)
The real difference: At my work place, I have a *real* big one of the old 24" 4:3 monitors. When this one dies, with this crap of 16:9 monitors en vogue now, I'll have to get two. I don't look video at work; I don't need widescreen. Give me lots of vertical space, and I'm much more happy. But the hardware industry is driven by consumer market today, no hope to get better. (Don't make me start about that insane disk companies... ;-)
I'm a CEO, in Germany, of a small/mid-sized company (10 persons + freelancers). If one of my tech staff needs an item below 1.000 EUR to work better, I tell them to buy it and please don't bother me with it. Just make sure that there's a proper invoice for the books.
If my company doesn't make enough money to support this mode of operations; I'd close it down -- it'll be dead in a few months/years anyhow. In the European countries and in the US, where I know the economic situation, this kind of costs are swamped away by cost of operations, and cost of staff. Especially, since it's a one-term cost, and not an ongoing cost on the budget. Any tech staff person costs me at least 100.000 EUR per year, to veto any monitor that makes him more productive doesn't come into consideration at all, that would be foolish.
The first try was with uucp, but they couldn't handle its operations on the Bucharest side. Phone lines weren't stable enough, then. So, for the 1st 6 months, email was sent to Bucharest by Kermit file transfer, triggered by a hodge-podge of MDA scripts, invoked by sendmail. Kermit was way more robust than any other file transfer protocol at this time, we believed eventually it could handle bit transfers over wet clothes lines.
After 6 months, we got uucp going, after getting more help with the network connection from government and EU. Some more months later, we got IP going. Those of you who take always-online for granted don't know at all what effort it takes to make that work.
Ah, I think I'm getting old. Get off my lawn... :-) :-) :-)
You mean, the great American ingenuity shown during Katarina aftermath and New Orleans rebuild? Or the other one, shown while building atom reactors directly in high-risk Californian earthquake areas?
Sorry, that I spent my mod points earlier this morning.
For the others, you're right, of course.
What system are you running that doesn't need a kernel security update?
I'd really like to know, I'd love to run such a system myself. All the systems that I run, need kernel updates a few times a year; and thus needs to be rebooted.
Well, since I'm running my servers in HA environments anyhow, reboot confirms that no non-kernel updates messed with boot configuration w/o any loss for availability. So, it's not so bad after all.
Of course Google filters searches, and they did it right from the start. It's called ranking search results, using negative cost functions. And here they even don't filter search results, but autocomplete proposals. These proposals are not equivalent to popular search stats and never should be. They shall present choices that are relevant for the search, for whatever metrics Google uses for relevance. Now they changed their relevance metrics for autocomplete proposals. Do you also get a fit when they change their page ranking metrics every few weeks and most popular stats are not first on search results any more?
Most popular is a damned bad as a sole metrics for search results and if they really used it, they would deserve to be taken over by Bing. But that's still not the case.
Get a life, and get off my lawn.
I don't think you understand the value of Gartner Group reports. They don't tell about probable developments and trends, they tell what the majority of business and technical managers think about trends and where they will make their investments. And that's a very valuable service if you know how to take it.
YaST does this for its Apache configuration. It has even files/directories that are meant to be edited by hand. That's why the OP wrote about "lots of files lying around", instead of one big beavy httpd.conf. I assume that he would be even more disturbed by Debian's available/enabled scheme.
The point is: If one wants to use both the automated tools of a distribution and edit files manually, be it with YaST or a2{en,dis}{mod,site}, one needs to understand the structure. And then one should RTFM and skim the configuration files. Both Debian's scheme and SUSE's scheme (as employed by YaST) are documented there.
He uses email; his secretary prints them out (after some selection) and forwards them. And he reacts to them. Well, at least, to some, if he knows you. Don is the most humble genius that I know, and I have always found him approachable in a way that is rare for other famous people.
He also uses email (typically via his secretary, again) to organize trips. I also have direct emails from him when some new TeX developments irks him.
Changing the MHz setting doesn't help always; sometimes the clock source (hpet vs. pit) is an issue as well. Sometimes none of the methods listed in VMware's tech note about timekeeping issues helps.
Interestingly, newer VMware workstation products don't have it any more, while the server products still have that issue. Lately, I'm sincerely waiting for other virtualization products to catch up, to be able to evaluate a switch.
Oops. s/gets to know/doesn't get to know/
Why? He hit it on the mark: As an audiophile, I can tell you that proper selection of cables is very important for high-end equipment, but that's surely "digging deep" for most people.
The GGP (don't know if that was you) wrote about "slick GUI vs. XUL". That's surely on a level where anybody who's not interested in Firefox's or Opera's implementation details gets to know the difference between them for a user-level point of view. It's also "digging deep". So the GP asked for end-user oriented information about the differences -- why should he need to "have a clue" to ask such a question? Are only those who know XUL and native GUI programming by heart are allowed to ask about differences on the end-user level?
Dunno, but I found the question interesting and I would have liked to get more informed responses, as I use neither Firefox nor Opera. (I'm a Seamonkey user, FWIW.)
If they are FLOODED with spam, they may be dedicated, but they are not good. In the newsgroups of my Usenet provider appears virtually no spam.