1. First, outlaw these darknets used by those pesky pedophiles and terrorists;
2. Then, interpret "darknet" to cover all anonymous and/or encrypted communication;
3. ???
4. PROFIT!
If you're on Android, you can use Greenify to prevent apps like Facebook from daemonizing. That way, you can access it when you want it, but prevent it from draining your battery and siphoning your data when you're not using it. As for preventing unwanted data sharing, XPrivacy is quite good; it let's you feed certain apps fake GPS data, blank camera data, silent microphone data, etc. to prevent them from accessing unwanted data without the app itself knowing. Note that both Greenify and XPrivacy require root though.
I switched to Linux as my main operating system when Windows ME came, and stopped dual-booting around the time Vista came. During the past 8 years without dual-boot, I haven't bought a single new game; just played a few old ones in Wine, and a few open-source ones from time to time. But a couple of months ago I installed the Steam client for Linux, and have so far paid for 22 new games in those two months. So I'm definitely one of those customers that simply wouldn't be using their products if it wasn't for their Linux support. I also have many friends who dual-boot Windows and Linux, but only use their Windows install for gaming; most of them still have a few games keeping them on Windows, but seem ready to move to Linux-only in the near future, and that is mainly thanks to Steam. If one thing is gonna lead to much-predicted "year of Linux on the desktop", I think it's Steam.
Sometimes, after heavy antibiotics, important bacteria that you have in your intestines are wiped out by the antibiotics. To restore balance to your gut after heavy antibiotics, the usual option is to withdraw some poop from another person, and transplant that into your intestines, so that you get back the bacteria that are supposed to live there. TFA is about a way to prevent this from becoming necessary.
I hope that they succeed. More competition in the CPU market is a good thing, and getting some international competitors based outside of the US/UK is also great.
How about a compromise? You downgrade to one of the two OpenBSD releases with a remote security hole in the default install, and then they port it to BSD?
Larger bills are an easy way to spend money when you're on vacation, it serves a legitimate purpose.
A thousand times this. While I usually pay by card when I'm at home, when I'm travelling abroad I always pay by cash. First of all, that way you're sure that you always have access to money when it is needed. For example, when travelling in Japan, a lot of places take credit cards, and there are ATMs everywhere. However, all those places only accept Japanese cards, so in order to withdraw money from my Norwegian debit card I essentially had to spend time finding a 7/11 with an international ATM, making cash a necessity. The fact that the Japanese had large bills available made this largely a non-issue. Another point is that the processing fees can be very large abroad. For example, in the Philippines and Thailand you sometimes lose $10 just to ATM fees every time you try to withdraw money from a foreign card, and then in addition you have different currency conversion fees at ATMs from different banks, etc. Large bills make it easier to just withdraw larger amounts of money every time you find a cheap ATM. Always using ATMs also reduces the risk of various credit card scams. So cash is a necessity for tourists, and large bills then makes life easier.
If you really want to be pedantic, then the negative charges aren't really electrons either. Both the positive and negative charges are quasiparticles, which are particle-like excitations of a large sea of actual electrons in the semiconductor. The collective behaviour of all these electrons then results in something that looks like a single electron with a different mass and sometimes the wrong charge. But it's usually easier to just call these quasiparticles "electrons" and "holes", because that's what they intuitively behave like.
I hear this argument a lot. You're right that there's nothing wrong with having a warmer climate, and as you say, it's a lot less destructive than another ice age. The problem occurs when the climate changes are too rapid. In this case, wild species don't have enough time to either migrate to suitable areas or adapt through evolution, possibly resulting in mass extinction and ecological disaster. For us humans, coastal cities would be affected by rising sealevels; climate changes would shuffle around which regions are suitable for farming and not; other food sources like fishing might be affected in unpredictable ways. So you're right that the Earth has been a lot warmer before, but that doesn't solve the short-term problems caused by rapid climate change.
This sounds like a reasonable explanation: Kubuntu 15.10 was crashing a lot on my laptop (Intel GPU), but was relatively stable on my workstation (AMD GPU).
My experience was that Kubuntu 15.10 (Plasma 5.4) was unstable and crashed a lot. It wasn't a very big issue, because all the open windows always survived the crash and Plasma immediately respawned, but it was nevertheless annoying. However, I've now been running the newest version (Plasma 5.5) under Manjaro for about a month on both my main workstation and laptop, and still haven't experienced a single crash. So whatever was unstable, seems like they fixed it:).
Why doesn't it do this by default? [...] I shouldn't have to install another package to get the same functionality I already should have had.
I agree, which is precisely why I commented that "it would be much saner if journald automatically transcribed the logs it generated to plaintext files as well" in my first post. However, as thegarbz brought up in a comment above, it is easy to go around these defaults by installing syslog-ng. But I agree that distributions ought to do that by default.
Thanks for the comment. I just installed syslog-ng on my Arch Linux system, and indeed got back my text logs without any extra configuration. It just took:
sudo pacman -S syslog-ng
sudo systemctl enable syslog-ng
sudo systemctl start syslog-ng
and then my/var/log/ directory was immediately repopulated with all the logfiles I'm used to. That was even easier than expected:).
Simple use case. I mostly program in Fortran these days, but I often use Matlab for smaller things. What i do then, is instead of installing the 6GB of Matlab and all its toolboxes on my poor laptop, I have it installed on my work computer. I then ssh in, use 'matlab -nodesktop' to start an interpreter, and use it interactively. Every time i use a plotting command, the plot window pops up nearly instantly on my laptop. I'm not interested in using VNC, because first of all it would be inefficient to forward the entire desktop when i only want to see a few plot windows, and secondly my laptop doesn't have the same high screen resolution as my work computer. I only want to see the plots, and 'ssh -X' gives me that.
I'm really confused as to why people hate systemd so much. Based on the negative reactions on Slashdot, I expected systemd to be unstable and bloated, and was thinking about perhaps migrating back to Gentoo or FreeBSD if the rumors were true. However, during the past year I've tested systemd with first Kubuntu 15.10 and then Arch Linux, I've had no trouble with it at all. On the contrary: the bootup was lightning-fast compared to previous systems, and everything just worked out of the box. Taking a look "under the hood", everything looked neat and clean as well: system services are configured through readable config files, that are much shorter and tidier than the typical SysV init scripts I've gotten used to. Most of the design choices make sense as well: I see no reason to keep daemons like e.g. initd and inetd separate on a modern system.
I've also read that systemd apparently saves a lot of work for e.g. the distribution maintainers and desktop environment programmers, in the first case since it is much easier to maintain a systemd service file than a SysV init script, and in the latter case because a lot of work that previously had to be redone for every Linux distribution can now be easily shared or ported between distributions. I don't think some homogeneity among base systems are a bad thing if it makes it much easier to make software work across distributions. For instance, almost nobody's complaining that using the Linux system with the GNU base system and X11 display server is bad because it makes the Linux ecosystem too homogeneous. Sure, you do have legitimate usecases for the BusyBox base system and framebuffer applications, but that's not the majority of Linux desktop systems. There will of course be legitimate usecases for other things than systemd, but I don't believe that holds for the majority of Linux desktop systems either.
The only criticism of systemd that I agree with, is that plaintext log files are a good thing. I think I understand the reason for having binary logs (making it easier to parse for programs and scripts without a making a regex-hell), but in that case it would be much saner if journald automatically transcribed the logs it generated to plaintext files as well. Apparently it is not too difficult to set this up yourself, but I still think human-readable logs should be default.
I think you've done a great job so far, and love how you've been quick to react to feedback from the community. Looking forward to seeing how Slashdot and Sourceforge will continue to evolve under the new ownership.
According to the Free State Project website, ``In a vote that ended in September 2003, FSP participants chose New Hampshire because it has a low state and local tax burden, a low level of dependence on federal spending, a citizen legislature where state house representatives have not raised their $100 per year salary since 1889, low crime levels, a dynamic economy with plenty of jobs and investment, and a general culture of individual responsibility, independence, and self-reliance.''
This is not the researchers' fault, but rather the academic journals fault. These days, you mainly have two options when publishing a paper in a peer-reviewed journal: either the author has to pay a $1500-3000 processing fee to to publish it under a Creative Commons licence, or you get to publish it for free but all readers have to pay to access the article. Most universities make deals though, i.e. they pay a yearly fee to the journals so that the researchers and students at the institution can access what they want when they want without paying themselves.
The traditional model of most journals is the second one (readers pay), but the first model (authors pay) is becoming more and more popular with new journals like PLOS and Nature Scientific Reports. Older journals like Physical Review are also beginning to offer open access publishing options now. But in both cases, note that none of that money actually goes to researchers: either the authors pay $1500-3000 to publish, or the readers pay $30 to read, and all the reviewers work for free, so all of that money goes to the journal...
I currently do most of my programming in Fortran using Vim — and don't see any reason that this has to change during the next decade.
Note that I'm not one of the veterans that started with Fortran 77 a few decades ago; my first programming languages were Python, Matlab, and C++. But at some point, I was forced to learn the basics of Fortran in order to make a C++ wrapper for a library that I needed, and was so impressed with the modern versions of the language that I now do almost all my programming in it. For numerical work, you basically get the benefits of C++ (static typing, object orientation, high speed) and Matlab (matrices, complex numbers, array slicing, 'elemental' functions), combined with a large body of available legacy code from the last few decades that can be leveraged in your applications.
I expect that in ten years, if I'm still doing mainly numerical programming, I'll just be programming in a newer revision of Fortran using a newer version of Vim.
Alternatively, you could also consider using multi-letter infix operators, such as c = a b in your union example. This would have the benefit of being easy to type since it's only ASCII characters, but at the same time easy to pretty-print by just converting all instances of to a unicode U+222A symbol using e.g. a regular expression. While this would make your language more original, it would likely be more user-friendly towards people used to other languages if you stuck to a function-like syntax c=union(a,b) though. This would also eliminate the problem figuring out operator precedence in large expressions.
Regarding the last point, about thinking very differently about imaginary numbers and quaternions, you might find this paper interesting; it is a readable and easily accessible introduction to the topic of geometric algebra, with an emphasis on its pedagogical applications in physics. This mathematical formalism goes back over a century to Grassmann and Clifford, and has been repopularized in physics by Hestenes. I believe some people are also using the formalism for computer graphics. The short version is that you can unify vectors, quaternions, and complex numbers into a single geometric formalism, if you just treat scalars, vectors, planes, and cubes all as first-class objects in a general geometric space, and that this leads to more intuitive geometric interpretations.
I wouldn't exactly call it "paranoia", as it's quite well-founded. My friend and I did a motorbike road trip through Vietnam about a year ago, and we didn't get the point of wearing those masks in public, so we just ignored the fact that all the locals were doing it. After a 2000 km trip over 11 days, I developed a tonsil infection, and my friend got a lung infection, so we both had to take antibiotics for the next two weeks. The doctor said that the reason was probably that we had been inhaling too much traffic dust; the dust creates lots of tiny tears in your throat and lungs, which leaves those parts of your body very vulnerable to infections. After that, I've been using a mask when driving through dry areas, and haven't gotten infected again so far:).
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1. First, outlaw these darknets used by those pesky pedophiles and terrorists;
2. Then, interpret "darknet" to cover all anonymous and/or encrypted communication;
3. ???
4. PROFIT!
By 2022, there will be 203 million vehicles on the road that can receive spyware over-the-air (SOTA) upgrades.
If you're on Android, you can use Greenify to prevent apps like Facebook from daemonizing. That way, you can access it when you want it, but prevent it from draining your battery and siphoning your data when you're not using it. As for preventing unwanted data sharing, XPrivacy is quite good; it let's you feed certain apps fake GPS data, blank camera data, silent microphone data, etc. to prevent them from accessing unwanted data without the app itself knowing. Note that both Greenify and XPrivacy require root though.
...decrypting the phone releases the pathogen?
I switched to Linux as my main operating system when Windows ME came, and stopped dual-booting around the time Vista came. During the past 8 years without dual-boot, I haven't bought a single new game; just played a few old ones in Wine, and a few open-source ones from time to time. But a couple of months ago I installed the Steam client for Linux, and have so far paid for 22 new games in those two months. So I'm definitely one of those customers that simply wouldn't be using their products if it wasn't for their Linux support. I also have many friends who dual-boot Windows and Linux, but only use their Windows install for gaming; most of them still have a few games keeping them on Windows, but seem ready to move to Linux-only in the near future, and that is mainly thanks to Steam. If one thing is gonna lead to much-predicted "year of Linux on the desktop", I think it's Steam.
Sometimes, after heavy antibiotics, important bacteria that you have in your intestines are wiped out by the antibiotics. To restore balance to your gut after heavy antibiotics, the usual option is to withdraw some poop from another person, and transplant that into your intestines, so that you get back the bacteria that are supposed to live there. TFA is about a way to prevent this from becoming necessary.
Are you thinking about the Active Management Technology?
I hope that they succeed. More competition in the CPU market is a good thing, and getting some international competitors based outside of the US/UK is also great.
How about a compromise? You downgrade to one of the two OpenBSD releases with a remote security hole in the default install, and then they port it to BSD?
Larger bills are an easy way to spend money when you're on vacation, it serves a legitimate purpose.
A thousand times this. While I usually pay by card when I'm at home, when I'm travelling abroad I always pay by cash. First of all, that way you're sure that you always have access to money when it is needed. For example, when travelling in Japan, a lot of places take credit cards, and there are ATMs everywhere. However, all those places only accept Japanese cards, so in order to withdraw money from my Norwegian debit card I essentially had to spend time finding a 7/11 with an international ATM, making cash a necessity. The fact that the Japanese had large bills available made this largely a non-issue. Another point is that the processing fees can be very large abroad. For example, in the Philippines and Thailand you sometimes lose $10 just to ATM fees every time you try to withdraw money from a foreign card, and then in addition you have different currency conversion fees at ATMs from different banks, etc. Large bills make it easier to just withdraw larger amounts of money every time you find a cheap ATM. Always using ATMs also reduces the risk of various credit card scams. So cash is a necessity for tourists, and large bills then makes life easier.
If you really want to be pedantic, then the negative charges aren't really electrons either. Both the positive and negative charges are quasiparticles, which are particle-like excitations of a large sea of actual electrons in the semiconductor. The collective behaviour of all these electrons then results in something that looks like a single electron with a different mass and sometimes the wrong charge. But it's usually easier to just call these quasiparticles "electrons" and "holes", because that's what they intuitively behave like.
I hear this argument a lot. You're right that there's nothing wrong with having a warmer climate, and as you say, it's a lot less destructive than another ice age. The problem occurs when the climate changes are too rapid. In this case, wild species don't have enough time to either migrate to suitable areas or adapt through evolution, possibly resulting in mass extinction and ecological disaster. For us humans, coastal cities would be affected by rising sealevels; climate changes would shuffle around which regions are suitable for farming and not; other food sources like fishing might be affected in unpredictable ways. So you're right that the Earth has been a lot warmer before, but that doesn't solve the short-term problems caused by rapid climate change.
This sounds like a reasonable explanation: Kubuntu 15.10 was crashing a lot on my laptop (Intel GPU), but was relatively stable on my workstation (AMD GPU).
My experience was that Kubuntu 15.10 (Plasma 5.4) was unstable and crashed a lot. It wasn't a very big issue, because all the open windows always survived the crash and Plasma immediately respawned, but it was nevertheless annoying. However, I've now been running the newest version (Plasma 5.5) under Manjaro for about a month on both my main workstation and laptop, and still haven't experienced a single crash. So whatever was unstable, seems like they fixed it :).
Why doesn't it do this by default? [...] I shouldn't have to install another package to get the same functionality I already should have had.
I agree, which is precisely why I commented that "it would be much saner if journald automatically transcribed the logs it generated to plaintext files as well" in my first post. However, as thegarbz brought up in a comment above, it is easy to go around these defaults by installing syslog-ng. But I agree that distributions ought to do that by default.
Thanks for the comment. I just installed syslog-ng on my Arch Linux system, and indeed got back my text logs without any extra configuration. It just took: /var/log/ directory was immediately repopulated with all the logfiles I'm used to. That was even easier than expected :).
sudo pacman -S syslog-ng
sudo systemctl enable syslog-ng
sudo systemctl start syslog-ng
and then my
Simple use case. I mostly program in Fortran these days, but I often use Matlab for smaller things. What i do then, is instead of installing the 6GB of Matlab and all its toolboxes on my poor laptop, I have it installed on my work computer. I then ssh in, use 'matlab -nodesktop' to start an interpreter, and use it interactively. Every time i use a plotting command, the plot window pops up nearly instantly on my laptop. I'm not interested in using VNC, because first of all it would be inefficient to forward the entire desktop when i only want to see a few plot windows, and secondly my laptop doesn't have the same high screen resolution as my work computer. I only want to see the plots, and 'ssh -X' gives me that.
I'm really confused as to why people hate systemd so much. Based on the negative reactions on Slashdot, I expected systemd to be unstable and bloated, and was thinking about perhaps migrating back to Gentoo or FreeBSD if the rumors were true. However, during the past year I've tested systemd with first Kubuntu 15.10 and then Arch Linux, I've had no trouble with it at all. On the contrary: the bootup was lightning-fast compared to previous systems, and everything just worked out of the box. Taking a look "under the hood", everything looked neat and clean as well: system services are configured through readable config files, that are much shorter and tidier than the typical SysV init scripts I've gotten used to. Most of the design choices make sense as well: I see no reason to keep daemons like e.g. initd and inetd separate on a modern system.
I've also read that systemd apparently saves a lot of work for e.g. the distribution maintainers and desktop environment programmers, in the first case since it is much easier to maintain a systemd service file than a SysV init script, and in the latter case because a lot of work that previously had to be redone for every Linux distribution can now be easily shared or ported between distributions. I don't think some homogeneity among base systems are a bad thing if it makes it much easier to make software work across distributions. For instance, almost nobody's complaining that using the Linux system with the GNU base system and X11 display server is bad because it makes the Linux ecosystem too homogeneous. Sure, you do have legitimate usecases for the BusyBox base system and framebuffer applications, but that's not the majority of Linux desktop systems. There will of course be legitimate usecases for other things than systemd, but I don't believe that holds for the majority of Linux desktop systems either.
The only criticism of systemd that I agree with, is that plaintext log files are a good thing. I think I understand the reason for having binary logs (making it easier to parse for programs and scripts without a making a regex-hell), but in that case it would be much saner if journald automatically transcribed the logs it generated to plaintext files as well. Apparently it is not too difficult to set this up yourself, but I still think human-readable logs should be default.
I think you've done a great job so far, and love how you've been quick to react to feedback from the community. Looking forward to seeing how Slashdot and Sourceforge will continue to evolve under the new ownership.
According to the Free State Project website, ``In a vote that ended in September 2003, FSP participants chose New Hampshire because it has a low state and local tax burden, a low level of dependence on federal spending, a citizen legislature where state house representatives have not raised their $100 per year salary since 1889, low crime levels, a dynamic economy with plenty of jobs and investment, and a general culture of individual responsibility, independence, and self-reliance.''
This is not the researchers' fault, but rather the academic journals fault. These days, you mainly have two options when publishing a paper in a peer-reviewed journal: either the author has to pay a $1500-3000 processing fee to to publish it under a Creative Commons licence, or you get to publish it for free but all readers have to pay to access the article. Most universities make deals though, i.e. they pay a yearly fee to the journals so that the researchers and students at the institution can access what they want when they want without paying themselves.
The traditional model of most journals is the second one (readers pay), but the first model (authors pay) is becoming more and more popular with new journals like PLOS and Nature Scientific Reports. Older journals like Physical Review are also beginning to offer open access publishing options now. But in both cases, note that none of that money actually goes to researchers: either the authors pay $1500-3000 to publish, or the readers pay $30 to read, and all the reviewers work for free, so all of that money goes to the journal...
I currently do most of my programming in Fortran using Vim — and don't see any reason that this has to change during the next decade.
Note that I'm not one of the veterans that started with Fortran 77 a few decades ago; my first programming languages were Python, Matlab, and C++. But at some point, I was forced to learn the basics of Fortran in order to make a C++ wrapper for a library that I needed, and was so impressed with the modern versions of the language that I now do almost all my programming in it. For numerical work, you basically get the benefits of C++ (static typing, object orientation, high speed) and Matlab (matrices, complex numbers, array slicing, 'elemental' functions), combined with a large body of available legacy code from the last few decades that can be leveraged in your applications.
I expect that in ten years, if I'm still doing mainly numerical programming, I'll just be programming in a newer revision of Fortran using a newer version of Vim.
Alternatively, you could also consider using multi-letter infix operators, such as c = a b in your union example. This would have the benefit of being easy to type since it's only ASCII characters, but at the same time easy to pretty-print by just converting all instances of to a unicode U+222A symbol using e.g. a regular expression. While this would make your language more original, it would likely be more user-friendly towards people used to other languages if you stuck to a function-like syntax c=union(a,b) though. This would also eliminate the problem figuring out operator precedence in large expressions.
Regarding the last point, about thinking very differently about imaginary numbers and quaternions, you might find this paper interesting; it is a readable and easily accessible introduction to the topic of geometric algebra, with an emphasis on its pedagogical applications in physics. This mathematical formalism goes back over a century to Grassmann and Clifford, and has been repopularized in physics by Hestenes. I believe some people are also using the formalism for computer graphics. The short version is that you can unify vectors, quaternions, and complex numbers into a single geometric formalism, if you just treat scalars, vectors, planes, and cubes all as first-class objects in a general geometric space, and that this leads to more intuitive geometric interpretations.
I wouldn't exactly call it "paranoia", as it's quite well-founded. My friend and I did a motorbike road trip through Vietnam about a year ago, and we didn't get the point of wearing those masks in public, so we just ignored the fact that all the locals were doing it. After a 2000 km trip over 11 days, I developed a tonsil infection, and my friend got a lung infection, so we both had to take antibiotics for the next two weeks. The doctor said that the reason was probably that we had been inhaling too much traffic dust; the dust creates lots of tiny tears in your throat and lungs, which leaves those parts of your body very vulnerable to infections. After that, I've been using a mask when driving through dry areas, and haven't gotten infected again so far :).