- Proper GNU utilities instead of whatever *box flavour they've used in the past
Sure, right after the FSF re-license them as Apache 2.0, as in when hell freezes over. So I'll just skip to the conclusion.
These changes would ensure their continued dominance as a platform, as us powerusers/developers would have little desire to seek alternatives.
1. The premise doesn't support the conclusion, the mass market follows the shiny 2. Most heavy cell phone users != power users, just social media addicts 3. What alternatives? Seriously. There's Android, iPhone, AOSP and *crickets*...
These other companies in a response to SpaceX have promised reuseable rockets to bring their costs down, but at this point they're dreams on a whiteboard.
I think they're a little more worried about the near future than the present though. SpaceX has relaunched 3 of their 18 landed boosters, so like 1.16 missions/booster so far. The non-production costs are the same, the second stage costs are the same, none of the boosters have flown more than twice so 50% of the production cost + reduced payload capacity + landing/refurb costs means it's probably not a huge win yet. The most scary thing for them would be the most boring things for us, SpaceX launching the same booster a 3rd and 4th time and pushing the reuse factor up, up and away. Their worst nightmare is a booster flying >10 times like an airplane instead of a rocket.
What we want to see is the Falcon Heavy, BFR, Dragon 2, manned missions etc. but they're more like capabilities we don't have today. Even the SLS program is so full of pork it's unlikely it'll be shut down just because Musk can launch a FH - hopefully, it's been less than a year away since 2012 - but undercutting the competition on cost will be very noticeable. Then again Musk seems to want to put a lot of money into R&D, so how much prices will drop just because SpaceX's costs drop... we'll see.
I don't know, so I'm asking. Is there a javascript function that could appear on a web page served via Tor from NYT or FB that would cause the browser to reach out to another website directly (not via Tor) and disclose the user's actual source IP address? Something like the one pixel images used to track users reading an email. Does the system of the Tor user force all IP traffic through Tor no matter what destination, or can stuff slip out the side, so to speak?
No, in theory Javascript can't do anything really nasty as all traffic is routed through TOR, whether it's onion sites or via exit nodes to the normal web. They can fingerprint your browser much better to recognize return visits and possibly track you across sites, which may be a risk if you're doing identifying activities some of the time. But you have exploits such as these, they all involve breaking the security model but most of them involve Javascript. While in theory there can be bugs in any part of the code the HTML rendering, image decoding etc. are much more static, heavily tested, fuzzed and sometimes formally proven so they extremely rarely lead to remote exploits on their own. Usually they need some form of scripting engine to orchestrate the triggering so it'll point to a malicious payload, otherwise it's usually just a crash/hang bug.
If you want to get more paranoid than that, you run the browser from its own VM that doesn't have any other firewall access than through TOR. That way even if you have an exploit for the browser all you have is the data the VM holds, obviously then you should not do anything personally identifying inside that VM. If you're even more worried than that and think they might try to break out of the VM too you do the same thing physically using a two NIC computer as your TOR gateway with all other ports closed. There are specialized Linux distros like Tails, Whonix etc. that do most of the heavy lifting for you. From what I understand most people fail at much more basic things though, they use the same nicks and passwords, reveal personal info etc. linking them to real world identities, they download media files, PDFs and open them in non-TOR applications that call out to the normal web and so on.
Encouraging people to do "normal" browsing like NYT and Facebook through TOR might be a good thing if they're not going all-out on security, as it's free and probably even better than a VPN for browsing. At least as long as you don't type anything important into non-https sites, since TOR gives exit nodes a free man-in-the-middle attack by design. But if you're Snowden or have some other truly deep secrets then this "casual" TOR use will likely get in the way of proper OPSEC and compartmentalization. Then again, you could always compartmentalize the compartments and have a casual TorBrowser and a paranoid TorBrowser inside a VM. The most important part though is that it's not a magic bullet, TOR will protect one angle of attack. There are many others and a double-bolted reinforce steel door is no good next to an open window...
Ahh, Minnesota. If I drove a thousand miles south (and crossed the Atlantic) I'd be there. This is like a UID pissing match, I wonder if we have any users from Siberia...
It does not matter, the important thing is the words and their meaning.
I think the causality is dubious though, if you're happy with what you have you don't need to chase the rainbow while if you're unhappy you'll pursue a different life. While it could be interpreted to mean you should appreciate what you have more there's only so much positive thinking can do and only so much you can change your personality and ambition. I doubt "give up and settle for less" is good advice even if it would have been a good thing if you could. And to be honest, writing that the year after you won the Nobel prize seems a bit sanctimonious. Yeah, I too could rest on my laurels a bit more with a Nobel prize under my belt.
So to be clear, you believe the Union was wrong in the civil war?
Did the US take a vote in the entire British empire before seceding? Fact of the matter is that the US couldn't be the nation it is without both being the rebellious region and quelling a rebellious region. Nation-building is also a wonderfully asymmetric process, if Catalonia was a sovereign state would you force it to merge with Spain, because a majority in the united territories wanted it? Hell no. But if you want to leave, you can't.
The "consent of the governed" is a funny concept that lead to extreme results whether you think power flows upwards or downwards. Do the people in Washington DC delegate power to the states and counties, or do the counties and states grant power upwards? If it's the latter, they should at every level be able to withdraw their support. In fact, in the extreme *you* should be able to withdraw your support to be one of the "governed" and be the literal king of your castle. I doubt the FBI or the army agrees.
In the other extreme where you say no, California can't just leave without the rest of the US having a say you're tumbling down the hill towards a world government where you can't just hog Earth's resources just because they're where you live, pollute the whole world and so on. I think it's natural to separate those two points, did the Confederacy have a right to secede? And if an independent nation wanted to re-introduce slavery, should other nations intercede on the population's behalf?
If you condition the former on the latter, you're basically saying "you can have your independence if I like what you plan to do with it" which is a bit like saying you can have free speech if I like what you say. Either you support people's right to unilaterally secede for better or for worse or you think it's a collective decision that should be made by the whole. It's not a particularly complicated principle, even though the results get pretty complicated in practice.
Which leads ultimately to outsourcing and service based view on the IT. If the business experts don't understand accounting, physical security, cleaning or legal services, they buy those from the providers as well. Then they can fulfill any compliance requirements to the monitoring authorities or courts, whatever they might be.
It doesn't solve the fundamental problem, which is that a lot of medical software is sold with some very specific system requirements and they're not certified to work on anything else. Part of it is that the liability is huge, part of it is that the vendors know they got the clients over a barrel. So you got a hodgepodge of outdated and obsolete configurations and it's not like a hospital will shut down a million dollar MRI machine or operating theater equipment simply because the OS is out of support or only supports SMBv1. You can red-flag it in a compliance report but unless there's actually money in the budget for a replacement system it's just CYA documentation. Worse yet if the product is EOL or the vendor has quit or if the new system is such a big change it's not really an upgrade anymore.
Microsoft actually used to be best in class here with their 5+5 support on client desktops. With their new "life of device" who knows, as vendors tend to not give a shit when the warranty has expired. But I think there will be a demand for like really long term support, I mean XP lived for well over 10 years and Win7 is still king of the hill, if only you got security patches I think many could run the same OS for decades. Particularly in a business context where you might only run a few vertically integrated applications and the OS is almost invisible.
The uber-rich really are selfish and shortsighted. Selfish I understand, but the shortsightedness is ridiculous. No matter how nice the masses have it (and at least where I live, you have to be pretty poor before you're not 'rich' in a global or historical context), when a relatively small number of people have so much wealth they can buy and sell the rest of us without a care in the world... the masses will eventually revolt.
Sorry, but I don't think history supports that claim. The peasants didn't revolt because their lords and kings were rich and powerful, almost every revolt came when there was a crisis that drove the lowest in society to desperation. The French revolution? Oppression + food shortage. The Russian revolution? Tired of war + food shortage. Even the fall of the Soviet Union was mostly because the stores were empty and the rubles almost worthless. That Roman that coined the term "bread and circus" was mostly spot on, as long as you got food stamps and TV most people are placated.
Take a look at all the people who quite willingly vote for a "strong leader" because they don't really care about freedom or civil rights, they want a strong economy and order. As long as they can make some money (bread) and spend that money (circus) without too much interference they're happy to be a cog in the machinery. Take a look at China, I know everybody here wants to remind about Tiananmen Square but it's 25+ years ago and in a booming economy the masses just aren't remotely unhappy enough to support a revolution. Venezuela, maybe. But it's increasingly rare.
The biggest question for me when deciding on any hardware purchase is how well the manufacturer supports the development of Free, open-source drivers for their hardware, either through the availability of specifications or actually contributing to driver development. (...) I used to be a big fan of AMD, but it feels like they have not kept up, particularly since they purchased ATI.
Huh? ATI was totally closed source, as bad as nVidia or worse. AMD is releasing tons of open documentation, here for example is a 239 page guide describing the Vega ISA and as for the drivers Phoronix said:
It's phenomenal seeing the open-source driver support one day-one and that for Linux OpenGL games the performance even surpasses AMDGPU-PRO. This Vega launch is easily the most successful discrete GPU launch ever where it's backed by fully-open drivers.
That said, the problem for open source graphics on Linux is that the gaming market share is falling despite/. posting about how many indie games there are. The latest Steam survey says 0.60% and a whooping 96.6% for Windows, it used to be about 1%. It's hard to get AMD to spend more of their very limited cash on a near non-existent market.
Well fortunately for the creators of self-driving cars you don't exactly get in-depth interviews with other drivers so very often human drivers go "WTF is he doing?" too. If something happens regularly by informal convention they'll presumably add it to the repertoire, otherwise they'll just be confused and stop. I have no doubt that they've already had to solve thousands of situations that weren't in the rule book.
Yeah, that's definitely how it goes in the real world. Did you have a source but forgot to cite it?
In modern times it's obvious bullshit. In historic time... the men in the tribe hunt, the women gather. The men fight off other tribes, the women raise children. If some males didn't contribute to kids but contributed to the survival of the tribe why not? They'd hardly be exempt to live their own individual lives as we know them today. It's very common in pack animals for the alpha male to be the one mating, both women and in particular men have far greater reproductive ability than what is sustainable.
Likewise, does not the maintainer of, say, the TTY subsystem (just a random pick...) make active changes *between* release cycles, submitting their LAG to the various RCs?
Not to RCs. As I understand it the kernel is on a three month cycle, one month merge window and roughly two months of weekly RCs that are only supposed to be bug fixes. Otherwise you might get an undiplomatic response from Mr. Torvalds. Worse yet, many distros ship kernels much older than that and despite having "proper channels" bugs often go directly upstream with a resolution of "we fixed that two years ago, update... sigh, waste of time". So if you're not really ready for production use, being in the kernel might just be a bother. Plus if you make a kernel API then Linus will make you support it forever. From what I understand you can mark your code "experimental" though, which basically means all bets are off.
The employee has no right to access to their file; they don't know if HR has something recorded about them, or not. It isn't "their" file, it is their employer's file that merely talks about them.
If you're going to say "in the world" then I'll add "your jurisdiction may vary". At least here in Norway there's no "at will" work relationship, every termination needs a legitimate cause. Employers have been severely punished for terminating employees that are sick, pregnant, unionized or simply "bothersome" or disliked in some way. In broad terms the valid reasons either involves company performance requiring downsizing or relocation or employee performance regarding the performance of your job duties or violations of work policies.
There are a few grave incidents that can lead to immediate termination which usually involve some form of criminal act, refusal to work, showing up drunk or high, grossly disloyal conduct etc. but they're extremely rare. The burden is usually on the employer to prove that the employee has been given work relevant to their qualifications and position, that they've received adequate training and that they've been made aware that their work performance is inadequate and still failed to improve. Basically that they've not just set you up to fail.
Pretty much every part of this is up for dispute and obviously you can't dispute that until you're aware of the "accusation" made against you, basically if HR have a secret file on you it's basically considered gossip and is legally almost worthless. If you get written up for any kind of formal complaint or dereliction of duty you will almost certainly be asked to acknowledge it, whether you agree with it or not. Which is not to say that your boss or HR keeps their own unofficial lists of who they'd like to downsize first if they got a legitimate excuse, but that's not formally in your file.
Sadly, there is a correlation to radiation exposure, though there are many other factors that increase risk. Still, it's plausible he died doing his job many years hence.
When he became 85 years old and 22% of Americans (595k/2712k in 2015) die from cancer I'd say the primary cause was old age. Looking at age charts here in Norway 70% of the population (80% -> 10%) die between ages 75 and 95, it just seems to be the end of our natural lifespan. We're constantly reducing the number of "premature" deaths but the curve seems to take a sharper and sharper dive the higher we manage to push it and research on centennials hasn't given us any obvious insights on how to extend the life span of the general population.
Even ancient Roman emperors like Augustus and Tiberius lived to be 75+ years old, what killed people were the shitty conditions most of them lived under. Of course now with modern hygiene and medicine we're now all more pampered than Roman emperors and have gone from 0.3% to 80% of the population making it that far. So the average is massively improved but the maximum haven't moved much, even in ancient Rome there existed centennials. Probably as rare as 110+ year olds today, but still.
Ubuntu as a supported desktop OS is just not a prospect anyone is about to pay for. (...) So they can trumpet their share of cloud instances. That's a nice looking metric for them sure enough, but the whole reason is because they are the no-fuss no-cost option. It has not translated to people paying Canonical for much as of yet.
So... good for the desktop? I mean Red Hat found their thing and unceremoniously dropped Red Hat Linux (their non-enterprise desktop offering) for a community testbed. As long as Canonical hasn't found its thing they need Ubuntu as marketing, almost every Linux user knows it even if it's not their daily driver. If they become "the cloud distro" and all their paying customers will use it for that anyway they don't need the desktop. Then they could just let Mint, Elementary or openSUSE take over or do a Fedora-style spin-off while they focus on making money.
You get it all the time with the PB&J project, people think "then spread jelly" is an instruction, but a computer has no idea what the fuck "spread" means, or what a "knife" is. Computers don't suffer from the trolley problem, they have an "abnormal road condition" or "obstacle condition" (ie human ahead) and a routine to attempt.
But they know what a "normal road condition" is so they can tell it's an abnormal road condition? How is "make a new dialog" a computer instruction, though I instruct it to do that? Does a non-English person understand that "then spread jelly" is an instruction? Do you actually have a formal definition of what "spread" means yourself? How do you think Watson beat people in Jeopardy or assistants like Siri works? Nobody cares if the computer "understands" what jelly is, as long as it recognizes the facets that make us call it jelly. We will teach it to distinguish between human and non-human obstacles because that matters to us.
To put it a bit cruelly, think of it as a negative game where you're trying to avoid minus points. The computer won't assign value to things, but we will unless we think hitting a lamp post and running over a human are equally acceptable solutions to an impact it can't prevent. We have to make the rules that will determine how the computer will optimize the trolley problem. You can extend the trolley problem to say that we have to look through a spyglass to know which is which and so refusing to look is the third option. It's no less of a choice or ethical dilemma than the other solutions, in fact it's an answer. Half the time the trolley will be on the two person track and you'll do nothing, you're just refusing to acknowledge the implied decision of not looking.
It's clear that Trump is running out of escalations, I don't know what he thinks he can accomplish. The US could nuke NK out of existence, but we all knew that from the beginning. No matter how loose a cannon Trump is he won't get justification to launch a first strike, which means he's all talk. Even if he could get the political backing and he really wants a Cuban missile crisis-class line in the sand it has to extremely clear. The shouting matches just escalate the situation without making any progress towards a resolution, one way or the other.
I love how this keeps coming up as if crypto-mining is going to happen INSTEAD OF advertising. Kind of like how cable came about and you would pay for the service instead of having commercials. Sure, maybe some advertising goes away at first. But it will come back as bad as ever.
Some sites will undoubtedly want/need more revenue, but then we could vote with our eyeballs and use the sites that don't. Right now a lot of people - including me - use ad blockers because we hate ads, but we're not really giving them any alternatives because we're not going to pay subscriptions for anything other than big services like Netflix, there's no functioning micro-transactions and we aren't white-listing sites because again, we hate ads. While that's certainly a good deal for me I can see how that's not a very sustainable business model and they don't really have much to lose when I'm contributing nothing in the first place. If they're getting a bit of positive cash flow from me via crypto-mining they have something to lose and it's business that hopefully somebody else will pick up.
So what's the alternative to Javascript for the Web? Java, Flash and Silverlight are not valid options.
The future seems to be WebAssembly. Essentially it'll make the web more desktop-like, write in the language you want and compile. You'll still need some Javascript to interact with the assembly, but much less.
According to various calculators and charts online, that only gives you about 0.0000146083 XMR / 0.00000021 BTC / 0.0012472178 $USD per hour of mining. That's an almost non-existant 0.00000034644939 $USD per second.
So is the payment for one ad, the numbers I found that CPM = cost per 1000 ad impressions is like $0.10 to $6 depending on market. Taking the low estimate that's 0.00001 / 0.00000034644939 = 29 seconds to match one ad. Granted you can put a lot of ads on one page or break it up over many pages to get many impressions but I'd say there's generally more than half a minute's worth of content per ad. And that's what people don't seem to get when we're talking about micro-transactions, it's not cents. It's so tiny fractions of a cent that the overhead is ridiculous. Even if it costs you $0.0001 or $0.001 to "send" that $0.00001 it's still far better than pretty much any other conceivable alternative.
If you are effectively forced to buy insurance anyway, Tesla is partnering with Liberty Mutual to offer discounted (supposedly) insurance that takes the cars self-driving and other safety features into account to hopefully give you a better insurance rate.
Unlike all other insurances, that blissfully ignore any vehicle's track record and safety features. This is just a PR stunt where Liberty Mutual offers a volume discount for Tesla to send customers their way.
Arguably much better. Walmart pays bottom rung wages, while Amazon jobs tech pay really well. In my own field of videogame development, they've sucked up a huge amount of local talent with their new game studio
More importantly, Wal-Mart comes to take over existing local jobs in other retailers while a new game studio would expand the market.
largely by paying better wages. This ends up driving UP wages elsewhere as well, if companies want to keep their best talent. Boosted wages means local families have more to spend
Now that's a gross oversimplification. If you rise with the tide, everything is great. But a lot of people are stuck in jobs that pay minimum wage, are set by public authorities or don't see any increased competition for the jobs they offer. Or they have some other form of income or fixed amount of money like social security or retirement savings. There are a whole lot of people who will not see any additional income or new busniess/employment opportunities.
Redmond has a lot of really nice local shops, boutiques, and public places in the area. Yes, housing prices tend to rise, but that's a single negative amongst a huge number of positive effects.
Many low-income families rent because they either can't afford to buy or they have too unstable jobs to commit. Their rent goes up, which is a much bigger deal than if you own and taxes go up. And shop space becomes more expensive so prices go up, nice but costly hipster establishments replace cheaper ones. Out with Costco, in with Whole Foods. That corner pub where you could get a coffee, a beer and an meal for a few bucks is replaced with Starbucks, hipster clubs and fine dining. Nice places are nice if you can afford them.
For sure, it's great for the city's economy and you might argue that through trickle-down economics that'll fund improvements to all. But very often there's a displacement effect, in comes the rich people so the poor people are pushed out to new communities. Not everybody is going to be happy about that and they got legitimate reasons not to be. Your post comes away as a little condescending, there's lots of positives and one tiny negative so if you're complaining you're a whiner. But some people only get the short end of the stick.
Except that a dongle is equally unreliable at telling you what you're agreeing to, which is pretty essential to signing otherwise it's purely an authorization token.
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- Proper GNU utilities instead of whatever *box flavour they've used in the past
Sure, right after the FSF re-license them as Apache 2.0, as in when hell freezes over. So I'll just skip to the conclusion.
These changes would ensure their continued dominance as a platform, as us powerusers/developers would have little desire to seek alternatives.
1. The premise doesn't support the conclusion, the mass market follows the shiny
2. Most heavy cell phone users != power users, just social media addicts
3. What alternatives? Seriously. There's Android, iPhone, AOSP and *crickets*...
These other companies in a response to SpaceX have promised reuseable rockets to bring their costs down, but at this point they're dreams on a whiteboard.
I think they're a little more worried about the near future than the present though. SpaceX has relaunched 3 of their 18 landed boosters, so like 1.16 missions/booster so far. The non-production costs are the same, the second stage costs are the same, none of the boosters have flown more than twice so 50% of the production cost + reduced payload capacity + landing/refurb costs means it's probably not a huge win yet. The most scary thing for them would be the most boring things for us, SpaceX launching the same booster a 3rd and 4th time and pushing the reuse factor up, up and away. Their worst nightmare is a booster flying >10 times like an airplane instead of a rocket.
What we want to see is the Falcon Heavy, BFR, Dragon 2, manned missions etc. but they're more like capabilities we don't have today. Even the SLS program is so full of pork it's unlikely it'll be shut down just because Musk can launch a FH - hopefully, it's been less than a year away since 2012 - but undercutting the competition on cost will be very noticeable. Then again Musk seems to want to put a lot of money into R&D, so how much prices will drop just because SpaceX's costs drop... we'll see.
I don't know, so I'm asking. Is there a javascript function that could appear on a web page served via Tor from NYT or FB that would cause the browser to reach out to another website directly (not via Tor) and disclose the user's actual source IP address? Something like the one pixel images used to track users reading an email. Does the system of the Tor user force all IP traffic through Tor no matter what destination, or can stuff slip out the side, so to speak?
No, in theory Javascript can't do anything really nasty as all traffic is routed through TOR, whether it's onion sites or via exit nodes to the normal web. They can fingerprint your browser much better to recognize return visits and possibly track you across sites, which may be a risk if you're doing identifying activities some of the time. But you have exploits such as these, they all involve breaking the security model but most of them involve Javascript. While in theory there can be bugs in any part of the code the HTML rendering, image decoding etc. are much more static, heavily tested, fuzzed and sometimes formally proven so they extremely rarely lead to remote exploits on their own. Usually they need some form of scripting engine to orchestrate the triggering so it'll point to a malicious payload, otherwise it's usually just a crash/hang bug.
If you want to get more paranoid than that, you run the browser from its own VM that doesn't have any other firewall access than through TOR. That way even if you have an exploit for the browser all you have is the data the VM holds, obviously then you should not do anything personally identifying inside that VM. If you're even more worried than that and think they might try to break out of the VM too you do the same thing physically using a two NIC computer as your TOR gateway with all other ports closed. There are specialized Linux distros like Tails, Whonix etc. that do most of the heavy lifting for you. From what I understand most people fail at much more basic things though, they use the same nicks and passwords, reveal personal info etc. linking them to real world identities, they download media files, PDFs and open them in non-TOR applications that call out to the normal web and so on.
Encouraging people to do "normal" browsing like NYT and Facebook through TOR might be a good thing if they're not going all-out on security, as it's free and probably even better than a VPN for browsing. At least as long as you don't type anything important into non-https sites, since TOR gives exit nodes a free man-in-the-middle attack by design. But if you're Snowden or have some other truly deep secrets then this "casual" TOR use will likely get in the way of proper OPSEC and compartmentalization. Then again, you could always compartmentalize the compartments and have a casual TorBrowser and a paranoid TorBrowser inside a VM. The most important part though is that it's not a magic bullet, TOR will protect one angle of attack. There are many others and a double-bolted reinforce steel door is no good next to an open window...
Ahh, Minnesota. If I drove a thousand miles south (and crossed the Atlantic) I'd be there. This is like a UID pissing match, I wonder if we have any users from Siberia...
It does not matter, the important thing is the words and their meaning.
I think the causality is dubious though, if you're happy with what you have you don't need to chase the rainbow while if you're unhappy you'll pursue a different life. While it could be interpreted to mean you should appreciate what you have more there's only so much positive thinking can do and only so much you can change your personality and ambition. I doubt "give up and settle for less" is good advice even if it would have been a good thing if you could. And to be honest, writing that the year after you won the Nobel prize seems a bit sanctimonious. Yeah, I too could rest on my laurels a bit more with a Nobel prize under my belt.
So to be clear, you believe the Union was wrong in the civil war?
Did the US take a vote in the entire British empire before seceding? Fact of the matter is that the US couldn't be the nation it is without both being the rebellious region and quelling a rebellious region. Nation-building is also a wonderfully asymmetric process, if Catalonia was a sovereign state would you force it to merge with Spain, because a majority in the united territories wanted it? Hell no. But if you want to leave, you can't.
The "consent of the governed" is a funny concept that lead to extreme results whether you think power flows upwards or downwards. Do the people in Washington DC delegate power to the states and counties, or do the counties and states grant power upwards? If it's the latter, they should at every level be able to withdraw their support. In fact, in the extreme *you* should be able to withdraw your support to be one of the "governed" and be the literal king of your castle. I doubt the FBI or the army agrees.
In the other extreme where you say no, California can't just leave without the rest of the US having a say you're tumbling down the hill towards a world government where you can't just hog Earth's resources just because they're where you live, pollute the whole world and so on. I think it's natural to separate those two points, did the Confederacy have a right to secede? And if an independent nation wanted to re-introduce slavery, should other nations intercede on the population's behalf?
If you condition the former on the latter, you're basically saying "you can have your independence if I like what you plan to do with it" which is a bit like saying you can have free speech if I like what you say. Either you support people's right to unilaterally secede for better or for worse or you think it's a collective decision that should be made by the whole. It's not a particularly complicated principle, even though the results get pretty complicated in practice.
Which leads ultimately to outsourcing and service based view on the IT. If the business experts don't understand accounting, physical security, cleaning or legal services, they buy those from the providers as well. Then they can fulfill any compliance requirements to the monitoring authorities or courts, whatever they might be.
It doesn't solve the fundamental problem, which is that a lot of medical software is sold with some very specific system requirements and they're not certified to work on anything else. Part of it is that the liability is huge, part of it is that the vendors know they got the clients over a barrel. So you got a hodgepodge of outdated and obsolete configurations and it's not like a hospital will shut down a million dollar MRI machine or operating theater equipment simply because the OS is out of support or only supports SMBv1. You can red-flag it in a compliance report but unless there's actually money in the budget for a replacement system it's just CYA documentation. Worse yet if the product is EOL or the vendor has quit or if the new system is such a big change it's not really an upgrade anymore.
Microsoft actually used to be best in class here with their 5+5 support on client desktops. With their new "life of device" who knows, as vendors tend to not give a shit when the warranty has expired. But I think there will be a demand for like really long term support, I mean XP lived for well over 10 years and Win7 is still king of the hill, if only you got security patches I think many could run the same OS for decades. Particularly in a business context where you might only run a few vertically integrated applications and the OS is almost invisible.
The uber-rich really are selfish and shortsighted. Selfish I understand, but the shortsightedness is ridiculous. No matter how nice the masses have it (and at least where I live, you have to be pretty poor before you're not 'rich' in a global or historical context), when a relatively small number of people have so much wealth they can buy and sell the rest of us without a care in the world... the masses will eventually revolt.
Sorry, but I don't think history supports that claim. The peasants didn't revolt because their lords and kings were rich and powerful, almost every revolt came when there was a crisis that drove the lowest in society to desperation. The French revolution? Oppression + food shortage. The Russian revolution? Tired of war + food shortage. Even the fall of the Soviet Union was mostly because the stores were empty and the rubles almost worthless. That Roman that coined the term "bread and circus" was mostly spot on, as long as you got food stamps and TV most people are placated.
Take a look at all the people who quite willingly vote for a "strong leader" because they don't really care about freedom or civil rights, they want a strong economy and order. As long as they can make some money (bread) and spend that money (circus) without too much interference they're happy to be a cog in the machinery. Take a look at China, I know everybody here wants to remind about Tiananmen Square but it's 25+ years ago and in a booming economy the masses just aren't remotely unhappy enough to support a revolution. Venezuela, maybe. But it's increasingly rare.
The biggest question for me when deciding on any hardware purchase is how well the manufacturer supports the development of Free, open-source drivers for their hardware, either through the availability of specifications or actually contributing to driver development. (...) I used to be a big fan of AMD, but it feels like they have not kept up, particularly since they purchased ATI.
Huh? ATI was totally closed source, as bad as nVidia or worse. AMD is releasing tons of open documentation, here for example is a 239 page guide describing the Vega ISA and as for the drivers Phoronix said:
It's phenomenal seeing the open-source driver support one day-one and that for Linux OpenGL games the performance even surpasses AMDGPU-PRO. This Vega launch is easily the most successful discrete GPU launch ever where it's backed by fully-open drivers.
That said, the problem for open source graphics on Linux is that the gaming market share is falling despite /. posting about how many indie games there are. The latest Steam survey says 0.60% and a whooping 96.6% for Windows, it used to be about 1%. It's hard to get AMD to spend more of their very limited cash on a near non-existent market.
Well the do mention their 4K 60P decoding capability and other Vega-based cards have HDMI 2.0 so I think it'd be weird if they didn't.
Chromebooks have outsold Windows laptops on Amazon for years and years now.
Cherry picking data much? ChromeOS has 0.84% market share on StatCounter's OS statistics.
Well fortunately for the creators of self-driving cars you don't exactly get in-depth interviews with other drivers so very often human drivers go "WTF is he doing?" too. If something happens regularly by informal convention they'll presumably add it to the repertoire, otherwise they'll just be confused and stop. I have no doubt that they've already had to solve thousands of situations that weren't in the rule book.
Yeah, that's definitely how it goes in the real world. Did you have a source but forgot to cite it?
In modern times it's obvious bullshit. In historic time... the men in the tribe hunt, the women gather. The men fight off other tribes, the women raise children. If some males didn't contribute to kids but contributed to the survival of the tribe why not? They'd hardly be exempt to live their own individual lives as we know them today. It's very common in pack animals for the alpha male to be the one mating, both women and in particular men have far greater reproductive ability than what is sustainable.
Likewise, does not the maintainer of, say, the TTY subsystem (just a random pick...) make active changes *between* release cycles, submitting their LAG to the various RCs?
Not to RCs. As I understand it the kernel is on a three month cycle, one month merge window and roughly two months of weekly RCs that are only supposed to be bug fixes. Otherwise you might get an undiplomatic response from Mr. Torvalds. Worse yet, many distros ship kernels much older than that and despite having "proper channels" bugs often go directly upstream with a resolution of "we fixed that two years ago, update... sigh, waste of time". So if you're not really ready for production use, being in the kernel might just be a bother. Plus if you make a kernel API then Linus will make you support it forever. From what I understand you can mark your code "experimental" though, which basically means all bets are off.
The employee has no right to access to their file; they don't know if HR has something recorded about them, or not. It isn't "their" file, it is their employer's file that merely talks about them.
If you're going to say "in the world" then I'll add "your jurisdiction may vary". At least here in Norway there's no "at will" work relationship, every termination needs a legitimate cause. Employers have been severely punished for terminating employees that are sick, pregnant, unionized or simply "bothersome" or disliked in some way. In broad terms the valid reasons either involves company performance requiring downsizing or relocation or employee performance regarding the performance of your job duties or violations of work policies.
There are a few grave incidents that can lead to immediate termination which usually involve some form of criminal act, refusal to work, showing up drunk or high, grossly disloyal conduct etc. but they're extremely rare. The burden is usually on the employer to prove that the employee has been given work relevant to their qualifications and position, that they've received adequate training and that they've been made aware that their work performance is inadequate and still failed to improve. Basically that they've not just set you up to fail.
Pretty much every part of this is up for dispute and obviously you can't dispute that until you're aware of the "accusation" made against you, basically if HR have a secret file on you it's basically considered gossip and is legally almost worthless. If you get written up for any kind of formal complaint or dereliction of duty you will almost certainly be asked to acknowledge it, whether you agree with it or not. Which is not to say that your boss or HR keeps their own unofficial lists of who they'd like to downsize first if they got a legitimate excuse, but that's not formally in your file.
Sadly, there is a correlation to radiation exposure, though there are many other factors that increase risk. Still, it's plausible he died doing his job many years hence.
When he became 85 years old and 22% of Americans (595k/2712k in 2015) die from cancer I'd say the primary cause was old age. Looking at age charts here in Norway 70% of the population (80% -> 10%) die between ages 75 and 95, it just seems to be the end of our natural lifespan. We're constantly reducing the number of "premature" deaths but the curve seems to take a sharper and sharper dive the higher we manage to push it and research on centennials hasn't given us any obvious insights on how to extend the life span of the general population.
Even ancient Roman emperors like Augustus and Tiberius lived to be 75+ years old, what killed people were the shitty conditions most of them lived under. Of course now with modern hygiene and medicine we're now all more pampered than Roman emperors and have gone from 0.3% to 80% of the population making it that far. So the average is massively improved but the maximum haven't moved much, even in ancient Rome there existed centennials. Probably as rare as 110+ year olds today, but still.
Ubuntu as a supported desktop OS is just not a prospect anyone is about to pay for. (...) So they can trumpet their share of cloud instances. That's a nice looking metric for them sure enough, but the whole reason is because they are the no-fuss no-cost option. It has not translated to people paying Canonical for much as of yet.
So... good for the desktop? I mean Red Hat found their thing and unceremoniously dropped Red Hat Linux (their non-enterprise desktop offering) for a community testbed. As long as Canonical hasn't found its thing they need Ubuntu as marketing, almost every Linux user knows it even if it's not their daily driver. If they become "the cloud distro" and all their paying customers will use it for that anyway they don't need the desktop. Then they could just let Mint, Elementary or openSUSE take over or do a Fedora-style spin-off while they focus on making money.
You get it all the time with the PB&J project, people think "then spread jelly" is an instruction, but a computer has no idea what the fuck "spread" means, or what a "knife" is. Computers don't suffer from the trolley problem, they have an "abnormal road condition" or "obstacle condition" (ie human ahead) and a routine to attempt.
But they know what a "normal road condition" is so they can tell it's an abnormal road condition? How is "make a new dialog" a computer instruction, though I instruct it to do that? Does a non-English person understand that "then spread jelly" is an instruction? Do you actually have a formal definition of what "spread" means yourself? How do you think Watson beat people in Jeopardy or assistants like Siri works? Nobody cares if the computer "understands" what jelly is, as long as it recognizes the facets that make us call it jelly. We will teach it to distinguish between human and non-human obstacles because that matters to us.
To put it a bit cruelly, think of it as a negative game where you're trying to avoid minus points. The computer won't assign value to things, but we will unless we think hitting a lamp post and running over a human are equally acceptable solutions to an impact it can't prevent. We have to make the rules that will determine how the computer will optimize the trolley problem. You can extend the trolley problem to say that we have to look through a spyglass to know which is which and so refusing to look is the third option. It's no less of a choice or ethical dilemma than the other solutions, in fact it's an answer. Half the time the trolley will be on the two person track and you'll do nothing, you're just refusing to acknowledge the implied decision of not looking.
It's clear that Trump is running out of escalations, I don't know what he thinks he can accomplish. The US could nuke NK out of existence, but we all knew that from the beginning. No matter how loose a cannon Trump is he won't get justification to launch a first strike, which means he's all talk. Even if he could get the political backing and he really wants a Cuban missile crisis-class line in the sand it has to extremely clear. The shouting matches just escalate the situation without making any progress towards a resolution, one way or the other.
I love how this keeps coming up as if crypto-mining is going to happen INSTEAD OF advertising. Kind of like how cable came about and you would pay for the service instead of having commercials. Sure, maybe some advertising goes away at first. But it will come back as bad as ever.
Some sites will undoubtedly want/need more revenue, but then we could vote with our eyeballs and use the sites that don't. Right now a lot of people - including me - use ad blockers because we hate ads, but we're not really giving them any alternatives because we're not going to pay subscriptions for anything other than big services like Netflix, there's no functioning micro-transactions and we aren't white-listing sites because again, we hate ads. While that's certainly a good deal for me I can see how that's not a very sustainable business model and they don't really have much to lose when I'm contributing nothing in the first place. If they're getting a bit of positive cash flow from me via crypto-mining they have something to lose and it's business that hopefully somebody else will pick up.
So what's the alternative to Javascript for the Web? Java, Flash and Silverlight are not valid options.
The future seems to be WebAssembly. Essentially it'll make the web more desktop-like, write in the language you want and compile. You'll still need some Javascript to interact with the assembly, but much less.
According to various calculators and charts online, that only gives you about 0.0000146083 XMR / 0.00000021 BTC / 0.0012472178 $USD per hour of mining. That's an almost non-existant 0.00000034644939 $USD per second.
So is the payment for one ad, the numbers I found that CPM = cost per 1000 ad impressions is like $0.10 to $6 depending on market. Taking the low estimate that's 0.00001 / 0.00000034644939 = 29 seconds to match one ad. Granted you can put a lot of ads on one page or break it up over many pages to get many impressions but I'd say there's generally more than half a minute's worth of content per ad. And that's what people don't seem to get when we're talking about micro-transactions, it's not cents. It's so tiny fractions of a cent that the overhead is ridiculous. Even if it costs you $0.0001 or $0.001 to "send" that $0.00001 it's still far better than pretty much any other conceivable alternative.
If you are effectively forced to buy insurance anyway, Tesla is partnering with Liberty Mutual to offer discounted (supposedly) insurance that takes the cars self-driving and other safety features into account to hopefully give you a better insurance rate.
Unlike all other insurances, that blissfully ignore any vehicle's track record and safety features. This is just a PR stunt where Liberty Mutual offers a volume discount for Tesla to send customers their way.
Arguably much better. Walmart pays bottom rung wages, while Amazon jobs tech pay really well. In my own field of videogame development, they've sucked up a huge amount of local talent with their new game studio
More importantly, Wal-Mart comes to take over existing local jobs in other retailers while a new game studio would expand the market.
largely by paying better wages. This ends up driving UP wages elsewhere as well, if companies want to keep their best talent. Boosted wages means local families have more to spend
Now that's a gross oversimplification. If you rise with the tide, everything is great. But a lot of people are stuck in jobs that pay minimum wage, are set by public authorities or don't see any increased competition for the jobs they offer. Or they have some other form of income or fixed amount of money like social security or retirement savings. There are a whole lot of people who will not see any additional income or new busniess/employment opportunities.
Redmond has a lot of really nice local shops, boutiques, and public places in the area. Yes, housing prices tend to rise, but that's a single negative amongst a huge number of positive effects.
Many low-income families rent because they either can't afford to buy or they have too unstable jobs to commit. Their rent goes up, which is a much bigger deal than if you own and taxes go up. And shop space becomes more expensive so prices go up, nice but costly hipster establishments replace cheaper ones. Out with Costco, in with Whole Foods. That corner pub where you could get a coffee, a beer and an meal for a few bucks is replaced with Starbucks, hipster clubs and fine dining. Nice places are nice if you can afford them.
For sure, it's great for the city's economy and you might argue that through trickle-down economics that'll fund improvements to all. But very often there's a displacement effect, in comes the rich people so the poor people are pushed out to new communities. Not everybody is going to be happy about that and they got legitimate reasons not to be. Your post comes away as a little condescending, there's lots of positives and one tiny negative so if you're complaining you're a whiner. But some people only get the short end of the stick.
Except that a dongle is equally unreliable at telling you what you're agreeing to, which is pretty essential to signing otherwise it's purely an authorization token.