That is, if someone is found with cocaine, then you arrest him, and you also have/take his phone. That's fine.
What's not fine is the scenario I gave above --infodump someone's phone for no other reason that that there might be something incriminating on it. And in case you're wondering if that happens, yes it does. Remember the/. story on traffic police stopping people at a roadblock and just casually checking everybody's phones?
As in pretending it's a gun and pointing it at somebody?
How do you know someone is a "suspect"? If there's already some other evidence, however light, that someone is a culprit (such as a witness statement), then fine, arrest him and take the phone, too.
Otherwise, I think this is just one of those circular reasoning things: he's a suspect because there might be incriminating information on his phone. We're checking his phone for incriminating information because he's a suspect. (Oh, and, he's a suspect because we suspect there might be incriminating information on his phone.)
That's what the guy is talking about. It should be quite obvious that not all companies can hire "the right people" (meaning the top 2%).
And it's not necessarily "assuming your workers are childlike". Much of the time, workers are crying out for some management interaction where they can find out how a given feature is supposed to be implemented as opposed to just winging it.
There's nothing that says sole proprietors can't hire employees. You can open a business bank account, have an employer TIN (tax ID #), pay payroll taxes, pay sales taxes, and have a "company name" ("doing business as" or DBA), all as a sole proprietor of a business.
Yeah, that's the thing that pro-nuke Slashdotters don't get: If the once-in-a-century event happens to a solar plant, or a coal plant, the plant breaks. OK, life goes on.
Even with the Chinese dam break, people died at a point in time, but only at that time, not forwards tens or 100s of thousands of years.
By contrast, nuclear catastrophes are wider in area and in time.
Interesting. Hey, speaking of which, are you using 32-bit or 64-bit?
I've been using 32-bit Lucid so far on an old computer, which is been fine. I load it up with huge numbers of Chrome tabs while researching things (office chairs, APIs, design patterns, whatever). No problems.
And 12.04 Precise 32-bit wasn't bad either. Then I installed 64-bit Precise over that. OK, but the moment it gets to 1400MB RSS memory usage, it becomes unusably slow (unresponsive to clicks). And it reaches that point with just 3 browser windows (Firefox, Chromium, Chrome, doesn't matter). Whereas it took a lot of programs open to get to 1400MB in 32-bit.
But, for me, it's all part of the same thing. I mean it doesn't give me solace that Firefox isn't sluggish due to its UI layer, but rather due to whatever other reason.
Oh, and by the way, it's fair to say Gimp has none of the original developers. New ones have come on board, one by one.
Now, I'm sure they weren't all rabid endorsers of the word "GIMP" as having nothing to do, good sir, with the word "gimp." But, once they become part of they organization, they become invested. And so they have to defend every little thing, include the lame name.
It's sort of like Python programmers having to reflexively defend whitespace-based delimitation. Python is a great language, other than that one thing. But you won't hear (almost) any Pythoners admitting that.
>Do some people really get hung up on that kind of thing?
Yeah, they do. I mean, come on, you know that, right?
It's one thing to say stuff in geek circles, quite another among "normal people". I know it's funny and all to alarm "normal people" with geektalk (not just "GIMP", but the whole shebang from Star Trek to Dr Who, etc.), but in business you have to make an effort to make people comfortable.
As far as GIMP not changing their name, whatever.
But this is the sort of thing that Ubuntu could do. Global search & replace?
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Very good analysis.
Let me take a different direction:
Like or hate it, Ubuntu is the top OS distribution.
And it asks you for your password. A lot. For updating software. Running gparted. Adminning.
It can get annoying constantly typing it in. Any comments by other Ubuntu users?
Thanks for that.
The moderation on the post has been hilarious: Starting off at 1-Normal. Then 0, then 2-Troll, then 4-Insightful, now back down to 3.
A general rule is the more volatile the moderation on a post, the more truth it expresses.
When US subsidize solar, it good.
When China subsidize solar, it bad.
Well, yeah, that's what I mean.
That is, if someone is found with cocaine, then you arrest him, and you also have/take his phone. That's fine.
What's not fine is the scenario I gave above --infodump someone's phone for no other reason that that there might be something incriminating on it. And in case you're wondering if that happens, yes it does. Remember the /. story on traffic police stopping people at a roadblock and just casually checking everybody's phones?
Hehe, he said Mebibits.
As in pretending it's a gun and pointing it at somebody?
How do you know someone is a "suspect"? If there's already some other evidence, however light, that someone is a culprit (such as a witness statement), then fine, arrest him and take the phone, too.
Otherwise, I think this is just one of those circular reasoning things: he's a suspect because there might be incriminating information on his phone. We're checking his phone for incriminating information because he's a suspect. (Oh, and, he's a suspect because we suspect there might be incriminating information on his phone.)
What I hate about "New tech XYZ increases throughput by 2x!" is:
Why didn't they simply specify the high transfer rate in the original spec (as in USB)?
Why didn't they simply specify a lower voltage in the first place (for memory)?
Hiring the right people? As in the top 2%, right?
Well, what about the other 98%?
That's what the guy is talking about. It should be quite obvious that not all companies can hire "the right people" (meaning the top 2%).
And it's not necessarily "assuming your workers are childlike". Much of the time, workers are crying out for some management interaction where they can find out how a given feature is supposed to be implemented as opposed to just winging it.
Yes, I have (8.04, 10.04, and now 12.04).
I hadn't used encryption up till now because I used it on a desktop.
I was having some trouble with a re-installation of 12.04, and I thought it might have something to do with the home encryption.
Anybody have any tips regarding using whole-disk (or home directory) encryption using Ubuntu?
What about re-installs of the OS (an unfortunate necessity)?
Do you have to continue using the same password in order to keep being able to decrypt the home directory?
Have a separate (huge) partition for /home.
Have multiple OS partitions (about 30GB each, give or take).
Have your Ubuntu on one OS partition.
Install the latest Ubuntu on another OS partition, fresh or over a dd copy of the old one.
Switch among them as desired.
There's nothing that says sole proprietors can't hire employees. You can open a business bank account, have an employer TIN (tax ID #), pay payroll taxes, pay sales taxes, and have a "company name" ("doing business as" or DBA), all as a sole proprietor of a business.
Wait, the touchpad might not be centered on the laptop, but it's centered on the f and j keys.
That's so you can use your thumbs to move around.
Do you really want it centered on the laptop?
How would that work, exactly?
Yeah, that's the thing that pro-nuke Slashdotters don't get: If the once-in-a-century event happens to a solar plant, or a coal plant, the plant breaks. OK, life goes on.
Even with the Chinese dam break, people died at a point in time, but only at that time, not forwards tens or 100s of thousands of years.
By contrast, nuclear catastrophes are wider in area and in time.
And this, of course, is all "to protect our democratic way of life".
Coming up soon: Government-mandated Java and PHP methods that your website code will have to call.
If Syria or China were doing this, it would be called tyranny or dictatorship.
Your link is referring to the AGPL (Affero GPL).
Normal GPL (even version 3) doesn't have such a clause.
Hope that clears that up.
You're saying you need GIMP for images you're going to send to scientific publications?
Why would you manipulate images meant for scientific publication?
Or are you from the University of East Anglia?
Hey, wait, we said full name, right?
So, boss, can I install the "GNU's Not Unix Image Manipulation Program"
"What's a GNU?"
"Well, GNU's Not Unix"
"OK, I know what it's not, but what is it?"
"It's GNU's Not Unix"
"Yeah, you already said it's not Unix. So, what's GNU?"
(Who's Hu)
Agreed that political correctness is a problem.
Now, coming back to the subject: GIMP is stupid name.
Cinepaint? That's a great name. So is OpenOffice.
VLC is fine because it doesn't spell anything in particular.
I think the developers should have taken this opportunity to change the name ("a new UI, and a new name").
OK, how about some practical hints for using encryption?
In Ubuntu, when it asks you if you want to encrypt your home directory during install:
1) Is the entire directory encrypted as a whole, or each individual directory under /home separately?
2) Related to #1, so would the entire /home be unlocked when you log in? How does it work with multiple users, perhaps of different levels?
3) How do automated backups work? NFS or Samba has or can have access to it?
4) How do re-installs work? Does the encrypted directory remain accessible? Are you supposed to use the same password? Forever?
If you change your Unix password, how does that change the encryption (if it does)?
5) If you have to read your files out-of-band, how do you do so? (I.e., unencrypt easily.)
You forgot the #!#NO CARRIER
Interesting. Hey, speaking of which, are you using 32-bit or 64-bit?
I've been using 32-bit Lucid so far on an old computer, which is been fine. I load it up with huge numbers of Chrome tabs while researching things (office chairs, APIs, design patterns, whatever). No problems.
And 12.04 Precise 32-bit wasn't bad either. Then I installed 64-bit Precise over that. OK, but the moment it gets to 1400MB RSS memory usage, it becomes unusably slow (unresponsive to clicks). And it reaches that point with just 3 browser windows (Firefox, Chromium, Chrome, doesn't matter). Whereas it took a lot of programs open to get to 1400MB in 32-bit.
So I'm considering going back to 32-bit.
Well, dunno.
But, for me, it's all part of the same thing. I mean it doesn't give me solace that Firefox isn't sluggish due to its UI layer, but rather due to whatever other reason.
All good points.
Here's another one, about Kool-Aid.
Oh, and by the way, it's fair to say Gimp has none of the original developers. New ones have come on board, one by one.
Now, I'm sure they weren't all rabid endorsers of the word "GIMP" as having nothing to do, good sir, with the word "gimp." But, once they become part of they organization, they become invested. And so they have to defend every little thing, include the lame name.
It's sort of like Python programmers having to reflexively defend whitespace-based delimitation. Python is a great language, other than that one thing. But you won't hear (almost) any Pythoners admitting that.
>Do some people really get hung up on that kind of thing?
Yeah, they do. I mean, come on, you know that, right?
It's one thing to say stuff in geek circles, quite another among "normal people". I know it's funny and all to alarm "normal people" with geektalk (not just "GIMP", but the whole shebang from Star Trek to Dr Who, etc.), but in business you have to make an effort to make people comfortable.
As far as GIMP not changing their name, whatever.
But this is the sort of thing that Ubuntu could do. Global search & replace?