Mod parent up. Couldn't have expressed it better. Init is the daemon to rule all daemons.
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The launchd service isn't a daemon.
Then why give it a confusingly daemonish name by appending a "d" to the end of it? It's a replacement for init.
Which is a daemon. I can see that a replacement of a daemon might not have to be a daemon, but I'm wondering how that's actually implemented and I'm skeptical of your claim. At the very least you've presented this in a very confusing manner.
Brand's piece is long on rhetoric and short on information. It presents a breathless technological romanticism which ignores the difficulties in all of the "hopeful" proposals that he makes, e.g. the use of GM bacteria to attack invasive species. The problem of specifically targetting a host with a live organism and limiting it to that host is not likely to be solved any time soon. Not even if Brand waves the magic wonder wand of "GM" over it. The history of environmental remediation is littered with the introduction of live parasites which would supposedly prey upon the unwanted pests, cause a population crash and then die out with the pest. Environmental remediationists are now trying to figure out how to get rid of the live parasites which are doing just fine and have _adapted_ and _evolved_.
GM is a solution looking for a problem: the favorite supposed problem is the worldwide food shortage. This supposed shortage is a distribution problem. It is caused by deliberate economic manipulation by the developed nations.
I don't have the time to go into the problems with his lauding of the automobile as now being some sort of wonder vehicle because the yuppie-next-door is able to get 30mpg in her Prius.
Overall a fairly unimpressive article that would fit in well with the anti-scientific, irrational technological fetishism of middle-class liberals that don't want to admit that there are hard societal problems to solve.
Duh. You could try analyzing the situation a bit more and not assuming that I'm as dumb as you are. Once Hollywood decides to use P2P to distribute their "content" there will be increased load on intermediate routers. Please think up on what the topic is before spouting off your ignorant statements.
As they'll be slowing down the internet so that they can distribute their content over it.
Are we all supposed to be jumping up and down and clapping our hands in joy that private content producers and promoters of the idea of "intellectual property" are going to be sending terrabytes of their "content" onto the bittorrent sites?
No thanks. They can stick up centralized sites with massive bandwidth paid for by themselves and we'll wget/curl/ncftpget/rysnc the content from them instead.
Thanks to the hard work of Tim Roberts (and lately Alex Deucher) among others who have made it possible to run these cards for many years now. Check out the main site for Free Savage drivers
The author takes a naive dig at "free software purists" having a "problem" with binary drivers and then fails to look beyond his own nose when he says:
Right now, a compiled (binary) version of a device driver is tightly coupled to a specific kernel version so a device driver compiled for 2.6.5 won't work with 2.6.9. There are some simple things that could be done (many of them administrative rather than technical) that would allow a given compiled driver module to work with any kernel inside a major release. So a driver could work with any 2.6.x kernel, for example. Driver writers could provide easy-to-install precompiled versions of their drivers for the average Joe to install, and hardware vendors could (if they wished) provide binary-only drivers.
There is no way that the major vendors are going to devote enough resources to be able to keep up with linux kernel development until people start boycotting their proprietary, closed, non-working hardware.
Buy a freaking laptop that is known to be supported with GNU/Linux by researching what's out there. Otherwise you'll keep getting disappointed and hardware manufacturers are not going to change their ways.
The problem lies in the hands of people like Turner. People like you and me.
it'd be even better if they were able to distributed the files in RPM and DPKG formats. Once you've committed to a package based system it hurts to install non-packaged stuff. That's one of the reasons why JPackage is so nice.
I hope that Novell has success with it's SuSE / Novell Desktop 10 line. Already they've got a good foothold in Europe and the release of a distro with Beagle and F-Spot integrated in it should see them doing well. I hope they continue to make money and employ their great hackers.
Your post above is the single most insightful post on this whole thread. Credit granters and government agencies are shifting the burden onto us and we're accepting their marketing of it as a problem with "stupid people" being responsible.
And in some states it's _possible_ to get your electricity and gas hooked up without an SSN, but you have to go and stand in a long line in an inconvenient office at an inconvenient time.
SSNs and every other form of government ID are now worth nothing because the government failure to protect this data (along with credit data) has meant that identity theft is commonplace.
The credit granting agencies and government snoops have been hoist by their own petard in foisting an increasingly non-anonymous society upon us: they've created pervasive, widely forgeable identities which defeat the whole impetus behind ID in the first place.
How are the "Programs" going to filter out bogus entries? Define "bogus entries". Suggest actual mechanisms by which this unstoppable borg that perceives truth will work.
It is probable that extreme statistical outliers are discarded from some surveys, but if we're all busy feeding them crap it becomes difficult to decide what the outliers are. There's just a dispersed cluster of points with no obvious simple linear trends in any dimension.
Your suggestion that the owners of the "huge data banks" are going to do whatever they want anyway is defeatist and applies just as equally to your suggestion of "not answering" surveys.
Whenever I have spare time I go out of my way to answer surveys like these with bogus data. Like they say "It'll only take a couple of minutes of your time Sir!"
I consider it an important and useful civic act to poison the noosphere with false data in order to throw off the pundits, pollsters, advertisers and fraudsters.
Not detailing the methods used (in this case; giving the entire algorithms, either as source or as a 100% comlete and unambiguous description) basically limits the usefullnes of the resultant data as mere speculation, not proof nor even theory.
I'd agree but MBH98 do give an unambiguous description of how they treated the data and the data are publically available. That's what enabled the latest criticisms of their work to take place!
Yes. Their argument since the beginning has essentially not been about methodological issues at all, but about 'source data' issues.
Huh? The MM05 paper clearly states that what they've shown is that linear transformations to data prior to principal components analysis causes statistical artifacts to appear. They also point out that this would have been spotted more quickly if the R^2 statistic had been reported with the MBH98 analysis instead of merely the RE statistic. It seems their whole paper is expressly concerned with methodological issues then.
Second, the statement about "propaganda" is pretty sad. I'm not going to even entertain responding to it. You're obviously paranoid and think that money actually goes into duping the public. Get real! These people have lives outside of work too.
The sad thing is that you're obviously so ravingly blinkered that you can't even notice month's old news reported in very mainstream media, e.g. The New York Times which has detailed the spending of tax dollars on propaganda for DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION by exactly those people:
In all, at least 20 federal agencies, including the Defense Department and the Census Bureau, have made and distributed hundreds of television news segments in the past four years, records and interviews show. Many were subsequently broadcast on local stations across the country without any acknowledgement of the government's role in their production.
So, here's a thought experiment for you to try: how about you assume that you're totally wrong, that there is propaganda being produced by the government, by people in the Defense Department (DOD) and that you are a blinkered bigot that has wilfully ignored the evidence. Acting on this premise do a Google search, spend some time reading and then come back and tell us to "get real".
Yes and China and France also have a long history of torture and illegal wars in foreign countries. What's your point? That all governments are asshats? My dislike of the government of the USA is surpassed only by my dislike of governments that I don't have any say in de-electing.
is that they're busy working away (especially Thomas Fitzsimons) on GNU Classpath to make sure that with that and gcj there's a full Free/Libre java environment
We have the CIA and the NSA because we do have enemies abroad. Look at Iran.
And Iran is our enemy because we supported an anti-democratic fascistic dictator (the Shah) instead of allowing the people there to get on with their own lives and evolve towards democracy. At around the same time we supported other anti-democratic fascists in the Ba'ath party and look where that got us. The CIA supported that Ba'ath Party coup in Iraq.
Then later on the CIA fucked around supporting directly the Mujaheddin while they were busy dealing drugs, raping little boys and women and being allround asshats. Look where that got us.
The CIA are crap at preventing problems from external enemies: they seem to create all the external enemies. For a good read (after you've come down from your "external enemy" hysteria high, you could have a read of Chalmers Johnston's "Blowback" or Alexander Cockburn's "Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press".
If you still believe that the CIA are more effective at preventing terror than creating it by their cack-handed and immoral interventions abroad then I'll eat your hat.
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Mod parent up. Couldn't have expressed it better. Init is the daemon to rule all daemons.
The launchd service isn't a daemon.
Then why give it a confusingly daemonish name by appending a "d" to the end of it?
It's a replacement for init.
Which is a daemon. I can see that a replacement of a daemon might not have to be a daemon, but I'm wondering how that's actually implemented and I'm skeptical of your claim. At the very least you've presented this in a very confusing manner.
Brand's piece is long on rhetoric and short on information. It presents a breathless technological romanticism which ignores the difficulties in all of the "hopeful" proposals that he makes, e.g. the use of GM bacteria to attack invasive species. The problem of specifically targetting a host with a live organism and limiting it to that host is not likely to be solved any time soon. Not even if Brand waves the magic wonder wand of "GM" over it. The history of environmental remediation is littered with the introduction of live parasites which would supposedly prey upon the unwanted pests, cause a population crash and then die out with the pest. Environmental remediationists are now trying to figure out how to get rid of the live parasites which are doing just fine and have _adapted_ and _evolved_. GM is a solution looking for a problem: the favorite supposed problem is the worldwide food shortage. This supposed shortage is a distribution problem. It is caused by deliberate economic manipulation by the developed nations. I don't have the time to go into the problems with his lauding of the automobile as now being some sort of wonder vehicle because the yuppie-next-door is able to get 30mpg in her Prius. Overall a fairly unimpressive article that would fit in well with the anti-scientific, irrational technological fetishism of middle-class liberals that don't want to admit that there are hard societal problems to solve.
cynicism is frequently justified
Thanks for that tip, but it looks like they only show very recent updates to shows. Do you know is there a way to get access to much earlier stuff?
Duh. You could try analyzing the situation a bit more and not assuming that I'm as dumb as you are. Once Hollywood decides to use P2P to distribute their "content" there will be increased load on intermediate routers. Please think up on what the topic is before spouting off your ignorant statements.
As they'll be slowing down the internet so that they can distribute their content over it. Are we all supposed to be jumping up and down and clapping our hands in joy that private content producers and promoters of the idea of "intellectual property" are going to be sending terrabytes of their "content" onto the bittorrent sites? No thanks. They can stick up centralized sites with massive bandwidth paid for by themselves and we'll wget/curl/ncftpget/rysnc the content from them instead.
Thanks to the hard work of Tim Roberts (and lately Alex Deucher) among others who have made it possible to run these cards for many years now. Check out the main site for Free Savage drivers
There is no way that the major vendors are going to devote enough resources to be able to keep up with linux kernel development until people start boycotting their proprietary, closed, non-working hardware.
Buy a freaking laptop that is known to be supported with GNU/Linux by researching what's out there. Otherwise you'll keep getting disappointed and hardware manufacturers are not going to change their ways.
The problem lies in the hands of people like Turner. People like you and me.
it'd be even better if they were able to distributed the files in RPM and DPKG formats. Once you've committed to a package based system it hurts to install non-packaged stuff. That's one of the reasons why JPackage is so nice.
I hope that Novell has success with it's SuSE / Novell Desktop 10 line. Already they've got a good foothold in Europe and the release of a distro with Beagle and F-Spot integrated in it should see them doing well. I hope they continue to make money and employ their great hackers.
Your post above is the single most insightful post on this whole thread. Credit granters and government agencies are shifting the burden onto us and we're accepting their marketing of it as a problem with "stupid people" being responsible.
And in some states it's _possible_ to get your electricity and gas hooked up without an SSN, but you have to go and stand in a long line in an inconvenient office at an inconvenient time.
SSNs and every other form of government ID are now worth nothing because the government failure to protect this data (along with credit data) has meant that identity theft is commonplace.
The credit granting agencies and government snoops have been hoist by their own petard in foisting an increasingly non-anonymous society upon us: they've created pervasive, widely forgeable identities which defeat the whole impetus behind ID in the first place.
How are the "Programs" going to filter out bogus entries? Define "bogus entries". Suggest actual mechanisms by which this unstoppable borg that perceives truth will work.
It is probable that extreme statistical outliers are discarded from some surveys, but if we're all busy feeding them crap it becomes difficult to decide what the outliers are. There's just a dispersed cluster of points with no obvious simple linear trends in any dimension.
Your suggestion that the owners of the "huge data banks" are going to do whatever they want anyway is defeatist and applies just as equally to your suggestion of "not answering" surveys.
Whenever I have spare time I go out of my way to answer surveys like these with bogus data. Like they say "It'll only take a couple of minutes of your time Sir!"
I consider it an important and useful civic act to poison the noosphere with false data in order to throw off the pundits, pollsters, advertisers and fraudsters.
for multiple alignments should be published too, instead of merely the finished multiple alignment with all the "non homologous" sites snipped out.
The sad thing is that you're obviously so ravingly blinkered that you can't even notice month's old news reported in very mainstream media, e.g. The New York Times which has detailed the spending of tax dollars on propaganda for DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION by exactly those people:
So, here's a thought experiment for you to try: how about you assume that you're totally wrong, that there is propaganda being produced by the government, by people in the Defense Department (DOD) and that you are a blinkered bigot that has wilfully ignored the evidence. Acting on this premise do a Google search, spend some time reading and then come back and tell us to "get real".
Yes and China and France also have a long history of torture and illegal wars in foreign countries. What's your point? That all governments are asshats? My dislike of the government of the USA is surpassed only by my dislike of governments that I don't have any say in de-electing.
You are correct. My bad.
is that they're busy working away (especially Thomas Fitzsimons) on GNU Classpath to make sure that with that and gcj there's a full Free/Libre java environment
It comes with Samba 3.0 for SMB/CIFS, Active Directory authentication and a Microsoft Exchange connector.
Citrix and Acrobat Reader, OpenOffice2.0 etc
Hmm.. what else... NUMA support for multi CPU (also a lot of multicore enhancements)...LVM2 for easy disk addition, removal....
RHEL4
And Iran is our enemy because we supported an anti-democratic fascistic dictator (the Shah) instead of allowing the people there to get on with their own lives and evolve towards democracy. At around the same time we supported other anti-democratic fascists in the Ba'ath party and look where that got us. The CIA supported that Ba'ath Party coup in Iraq.
Then later on the CIA fucked around supporting directly the Mujaheddin while they were busy dealing drugs, raping little boys and women and being allround asshats. Look where that got us.
The CIA are crap at preventing problems from external enemies: they seem to create all the external enemies. For a good read (after you've come down from your "external enemy" hysteria high, you could have a read of Chalmers Johnston's "Blowback" or Alexander Cockburn's "Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press".
If you still believe that the CIA are more effective at preventing terror than creating it by their cack-handed and immoral interventions abroad then I'll eat your hat.