No, by not giving her a pass. Comey stated that the evidence wasn't sufficient to prosecute (a statement of fact that would have been vetted by numerous lawyers, Comey wouldn't have had any room there) but then proceeded to criticize Clinton in a forum where Clinton had no way to contradict and disprove Comey's allegations.
This is actually part of official reason Comey is out. Had Comey kept his mouth shut, passed on the evidence to the DoJ, and let the DoJ review the evidence, presumably dropping the case, Trump would have had much more difficulty finding a justification to fire him.
The official excuse is that Comey fucked up multiple times when investigating Clinton, by smearing her at the conclusion of the first investigation (and making the decision not to prosecute, which isn't a power he has - this shouldn't be interpreted as a belief his conclusion Clinton shouldn't be prosecuted was wrong, merely that he should have left the decision to the DoJ), and by his intervention during the election.
The real reason is almost certainly given by Trump's letter's second paragraph, where Trump brings up, for no apparent reason, Comey's assurances Trump isn't being directly investigated over Russia's intervention in the election. As everyone is aware, there is an investigation, it's just not targeting Trump specifically. Yet. And Comey is nominally overseeing that investigation.
If the Trump-Russia investigation is not the reason, it's a pretty weird statement to make in the middle of your letter firing someone, especially when no other reasons are stated directly (the reader has to, instead, refer to a referenced letter from the Deputy USAG to actually find the official reason.)
Can you point me at an article that explains this in more detail? I'm curious to know what modern Javas actually do to reduce GC "StW" type pauses, I've read up on various strategies in the past but they've never seemed quite holistic enough to cover all the issues.
Hurd was a viable project, Debian even produced a distro at one point using it as the kernel. The thing that killed it is that it was too late, Linux already did everything Hurd needed to do, and the stuff Hurd brought to the table wasn't compelling enough to make anyone switch.
I agree with the GP, this sounds a little like it'll go the same way. Android has warts, just as Linux does, but it works, it has the mindshare, there's no compelling reason to switch to anything else.
Yes, and how does calling Trump Drumpf in any way affect that? Nobody's questioning Trump's birthright credentials by calling him Drumpf. His family went by one name, changed it (in ominous fashion to something more egocentric) and that's it.
It's neither funny nor does it in any way harm Trump. It's the equivalent to a bunch of schoolboys who giggle about a "clever" nickname they found the school bully that's completely uninteresting to anyone else.
Counterpont: Oliver's main contribution to political debate in the US thus far has been to get a whole bunch of people to refer to Donald Trump as "Drumpf" because this, apparently, is supposed to be hilarious and something that'll take Cheeto Mussolini down a peg. A whole peg.
Jon Stewart did a decent job I guess of holding the Bush administration, and the "liberal" not liberal really media to account, but he was a one off, had his own blind spots, and well, he's not there any more. His heir probably isn't Oliver so much as Bee, but Bee just isn't that funny.
There really isn't. Nothing about FORTRAN is especially optimized towards mathematical applications, it's actually quite crude in comparison to, well, anything, even C.
The reason FORTRAN took off in that sphere is because it existed at a time when its major rival was COBOL, and COBOL is verbose and database oriented. As a result, a community coalesced around FORTRAN, and built many, many, many libraries.
Even in the 1980s, it was horribly outdated, but it had huge amounts of support, and while almost everything was "better", nothing was sufficiently compelling as to encourage huge numbers of otherwise technically illiterate scientists and mathematicians (remember, we're talking boomers and earlier generations here) to learn a whole new programming language, especially if the libraries they were used to weren't available.
C# and Java are usually considered "heirs to COBOL" because like COBOL they're used primarily in enterprises to write large, centralized, applications that act as the gatekeepers to the business's data. Just like COBOL, businesses know that Java and C# programmers are easy to find, and that the end result will adhere to certain standards of reliability and security.
Yes, on a technical level they're different, and because this is Slashdot most people on Slashdot act as if Java is only used to write applets (something it's almost never used for!) and C# is used to write Windows applications, but that's not what's being referred to here, and actually if you become a Java or C# programmer, you're infinitely more likely to end up working for a large utility or someone like Ford or GE, turning business logic specs into code, than you are writing anything one of the company's customers will ever see.
While I seriously doubt I could tell the difference between a 4K and 720P movie from my couch to where my current 50" TV is, I don't think 55" TVs are as rare as you think they are. Somewhere between 50 and 55" seems to be the median TV size when I enter Best Buy or Walmart these days. I would imagine people buying 4K TVs skew towards buying the larger models, so they're even more likely to end up with a TV substantially larger than 55" than most.
They offer that. Regular Hulu comes with commercials, but for a few dollars more you get it without. It's more expensive than Netflix without commercials, but Netflix has a different type of library (both show movies, but Netflix does HBO type content of its own, while Hulu shows most broadcast TV shows.)
They have enough evidence to meet the "probable cause" threshold. They don't have enough to meet the "Beyond reasonable doubt" threshold required for a conviction.
You know, this case seems reasonable to me: it's not a blanket decision to allow police to force people to give up PINs (indeed, it may hold off such a law), it protects due process, and it is comparable, technologically, to requiring someone give up their safe combination, which has never been protected.
The 5th isn't a blanket "get out of jail free" card, defendants have always been required to cooperate with search warrants and otherwise provide information that can help their prosecutors build a case against them. What the government can't do is compel a confession or a statement directly implicating them. "Where's the body?" isn't legal because answering it is an implicit admission of guilt, but there's no implicit admission of guilt in stating where they keep their gun, or what their bank account numbers are.
I appreciate that any authority given to the police is grounds for concern, but they do need to do their job. Due process and oversight are cornerstones of ensuring we have an effective but regulated law enforcement system. That appears to be happening here.
What you can do is put the key search terms in quotes. Then Google will show the exact same list of search results, but write the key search term crossed out underneath each one so you know that particular result is useless.
At least your PC doesn't freeze any more when you accidentally drift your mouse over a search result so that Google can show you a preview of the color scheme of the website on the right. But how long did it take for them to disable that "feature"?
Why shouldn't we bash Microsoft for "giving customers this choice"? "We're going to install a locked down operating system whose choices are of questionable, if any, benefit to ordinary consumers, by default on our premium laptops, but you'll be able to choose to switch away!"
So, in order to make the laptop useful, you have to make a choice: default, or useful? And after you've made that choice, you then wait an hour for your laptop to be set up. At least, I hope it's only an hour.
What about, instead of giving users the choice, you just give them Windows 10 Pro? I mean, there's no reason to offer the choice: the market for Windows S is for a minority of users, mostly enterprises with no legacy requirements, and schools. And TBH, the fact the OS requires users to use Edge means it's almost certainly a no-go in either of those environments.
Choices aren't always good. Choosing has a cost, all by itself. If offering a choice means most users will then have to wait an hour before their laptop is usable, then your offering of a choice is a bad thing - you should have just given them what they wanted to begin with.
They'd point at ChromeOS, which supposedly Windows S is supposed to compete with, and say "Well, you can't change the default from Chrome there, right?"
The people who'll be taking notice will not be anti-trust investigators, but the schools etc that were considering this OS. Edge has yet to shake off IE's reputation for poor security, and with the best will in the world, with S supposedly sandboxed up the wazoo, I just don't see anyone who's seriously making a choice between ChromeBooks and Windows S-books saying "Oh, sure, they're both as secure, we'll go with Windows".
I think this is probably the deal breaker, and means Windows S is dead in the water.
To be pedantic: there are businesses called T-Mobile in various nations, but the company in the US is a distinct, publicly traded, separate entity from the others. I believe the German company still owns many of its shares, but it's not run by them and at this stage they're just another shareholder.
The article is about the US company of that name, not the Germany company.
Actually, I just checked, and I believe acroread is in the repositories (which is presumably why it asks for me to agree to the license periodically rather than just once) so "sudo apt-get install acroread" should do it.
That's because I was using a communications medium that runs at the (nearly) the speed of light, whereas you were stuck with a mere supersonic communications technology!
Hmm. I just checked, and the only Adobe anything that's installed on my Mint instance is the Flash plugin. Is that what you mean?
Nope, I'm talking about Acrobat Reader, which I downloaded and installed.
Maybe I'm missing something. I certainly haven't been prompted to agree to any licenses.
You haven't installed Adobe Reader. If you go to Adobe's website, install the GNU/Linux version, and reboot your computer, you should see the licence agreement behavior I'm talking about on the login screen.
Let me just be on record that I like my radiowave based light speed connections between my phone and the tower. I don't want to "upgrade" to something that's merely faster than sound!
Well, if it's running plugins automatically, then the bar to exploiting it has dropped considerably from "until you install a malicious theme". Now the exploit could be as simple as "Malicious plugin", or as complex as "Someone, somehow, because that NEVER happens, finds a bug in Adobe Reader, that they can exploit."
I run Mint but switched to LightDM after I found I kept having to agree to software licenses for Adobe Reader every time the latter was upgraded.
It turned out that Mint's default DM, mdm, uses webkit. Which it had configured to load plugins. So when mdm was started, the Acrobat Reader plugin was loaded, and I was being prompted to agree to the license.
And you're probably thinking "OK, squiggie, that's a minor inconvenience, so what?"
Well, what user do you think is running mdm, and running all those plugins? Give you a clue: starts with 'r'. Ends in 'oot'. Four letters.
Oh never mind, I didn't click through, yeah, weird they'd be running S on this thing. I don't see many schools rushing out to buy their students $1,000 laptops.
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No, by not giving her a pass. Comey stated that the evidence wasn't sufficient to prosecute (a statement of fact that would have been vetted by numerous lawyers, Comey wouldn't have had any room there) but then proceeded to criticize Clinton in a forum where Clinton had no way to contradict and disprove Comey's allegations.
This is actually part of official reason Comey is out. Had Comey kept his mouth shut, passed on the evidence to the DoJ, and let the DoJ review the evidence, presumably dropping the case, Trump would have had much more difficulty finding a justification to fire him.
Apparently Carlos Danger didn't, that's part of the official reason Comey is being fired.
The official excuse is that Comey fucked up multiple times when investigating Clinton, by smearing her at the conclusion of the first investigation (and making the decision not to prosecute, which isn't a power he has - this shouldn't be interpreted as a belief his conclusion Clinton shouldn't be prosecuted was wrong, merely that he should have left the decision to the DoJ), and by his intervention during the election.
The real reason is almost certainly given by Trump's letter's second paragraph, where Trump brings up, for no apparent reason, Comey's assurances Trump isn't being directly investigated over Russia's intervention in the election. As everyone is aware, there is an investigation, it's just not targeting Trump specifically. Yet. And Comey is nominally overseeing that investigation.
If the Trump-Russia investigation is not the reason, it's a pretty weird statement to make in the middle of your letter firing someone, especially when no other reasons are stated directly (the reader has to, instead, refer to a referenced letter from the Deputy USAG to actually find the official reason.)
AUTOPLAYING VIDEO? What the fuck? I thought the NYT was supposed to be above that kind of shit.
Can you point me at an article that explains this in more detail? I'm curious to know what modern Javas actually do to reduce GC "StW" type pauses, I've read up on various strategies in the past but they've never seemed quite holistic enough to cover all the issues.
Hurd was a viable project, Debian even produced a distro at one point using it as the kernel. The thing that killed it is that it was too late, Linux already did everything Hurd needed to do, and the stuff Hurd brought to the table wasn't compelling enough to make anyone switch.
I agree with the GP, this sounds a little like it'll go the same way. Android has warts, just as Linux does, but it works, it has the mindshare, there's no compelling reason to switch to anything else.
Yes, and how does calling Trump Drumpf in any way affect that? Nobody's questioning Trump's birthright credentials by calling him Drumpf. His family went by one name, changed it (in ominous fashion to something more egocentric) and that's it.
It's neither funny nor does it in any way harm Trump. It's the equivalent to a bunch of schoolboys who giggle about a "clever" nickname they found the school bully that's completely uninteresting to anyone else.
Counterpont: Oliver's main contribution to political debate in the US thus far has been to get a whole bunch of people to refer to Donald Trump as "Drumpf" because this, apparently, is supposed to be hilarious and something that'll take Cheeto Mussolini down a peg. A whole peg.
Jon Stewart did a decent job I guess of holding the Bush administration, and the "liberal" not liberal really media to account, but he was a one off, had his own blind spots, and well, he's not there any more. His heir probably isn't Oliver so much as Bee, but Bee just isn't that funny.
There really isn't. Nothing about FORTRAN is especially optimized towards mathematical applications, it's actually quite crude in comparison to, well, anything, even C.
The reason FORTRAN took off in that sphere is because it existed at a time when its major rival was COBOL, and COBOL is verbose and database oriented. As a result, a community coalesced around FORTRAN, and built many, many, many libraries.
Even in the 1980s, it was horribly outdated, but it had huge amounts of support, and while almost everything was "better", nothing was sufficiently compelling as to encourage huge numbers of otherwise technically illiterate scientists and mathematicians (remember, we're talking boomers and earlier generations here) to learn a whole new programming language, especially if the libraries they were used to weren't available.
C# and Java are usually considered "heirs to COBOL" because like COBOL they're used primarily in enterprises to write large, centralized, applications that act as the gatekeepers to the business's data. Just like COBOL, businesses know that Java and C# programmers are easy to find, and that the end result will adhere to certain standards of reliability and security.
Yes, on a technical level they're different, and because this is Slashdot most people on Slashdot act as if Java is only used to write applets (something it's almost never used for!) and C# is used to write Windows applications, but that's not what's being referred to here, and actually if you become a Java or C# programmer, you're infinitely more likely to end up working for a large utility or someone like Ford or GE, turning business logic specs into code, than you are writing anything one of the company's customers will ever see.
While I seriously doubt I could tell the difference between a 4K and 720P movie from my couch to where my current 50" TV is, I don't think 55" TVs are as rare as you think they are. Somewhere between 50 and 55" seems to be the median TV size when I enter Best Buy or Walmart these days. I would imagine people buying 4K TVs skew towards buying the larger models, so they're even more likely to end up with a TV substantially larger than 55" than most.
They offer that. Regular Hulu comes with commercials, but for a few dollars more you get it without. It's more expensive than Netflix without commercials, but Netflix has a different type of library (both show movies, but Netflix does HBO type content of its own, while Hulu shows most broadcast TV shows.)
They have enough evidence to meet the "probable cause" threshold. They don't have enough to meet the "Beyond reasonable doubt" threshold required for a conviction.
You know, this case seems reasonable to me: it's not a blanket decision to allow police to force people to give up PINs (indeed, it may hold off such a law), it protects due process, and it is comparable, technologically, to requiring someone give up their safe combination, which has never been protected.
The 5th isn't a blanket "get out of jail free" card, defendants have always been required to cooperate with search warrants and otherwise provide information that can help their prosecutors build a case against them. What the government can't do is compel a confession or a statement directly implicating them. "Where's the body?" isn't legal because answering it is an implicit admission of guilt, but there's no implicit admission of guilt in stating where they keep their gun, or what their bank account numbers are.
I appreciate that any authority given to the police is grounds for concern, but they do need to do their job. Due process and oversight are cornerstones of ensuring we have an effective but regulated law enforcement system. That appears to be happening here.
What you can do is put the key search terms in quotes. Then Google will show the exact same list of search results, but write the key search term crossed out underneath each one so you know that particular result is useless.
At least your PC doesn't freeze any more when you accidentally drift your mouse over a search result so that Google can show you a preview of the color scheme of the website on the right. But how long did it take for them to disable that "feature"?
Is this what Slashdot has come to? We're now full of Milk Hipsters? Geez!
Why shouldn't we bash Microsoft for "giving customers this choice"? "We're going to install a locked down operating system whose choices are of questionable, if any, benefit to ordinary consumers, by default on our premium laptops, but you'll be able to choose to switch away!"
So, in order to make the laptop useful, you have to make a choice: default, or useful? And after you've made that choice, you then wait an hour for your laptop to be set up. At least, I hope it's only an hour.
What about, instead of giving users the choice, you just give them Windows 10 Pro? I mean, there's no reason to offer the choice: the market for Windows S is for a minority of users, mostly enterprises with no legacy requirements, and schools. And TBH, the fact the OS requires users to use Edge means it's almost certainly a no-go in either of those environments.
Choices aren't always good. Choosing has a cost, all by itself. If offering a choice means most users will then have to wait an hour before their laptop is usable, then your offering of a choice is a bad thing - you should have just given them what they wanted to begin with.
They'd point at ChromeOS, which supposedly Windows S is supposed to compete with, and say "Well, you can't change the default from Chrome there, right?"
The people who'll be taking notice will not be anti-trust investigators, but the schools etc that were considering this OS. Edge has yet to shake off IE's reputation for poor security, and with the best will in the world, with S supposedly sandboxed up the wazoo, I just don't see anyone who's seriously making a choice between ChromeBooks and Windows S-books saying "Oh, sure, they're both as secure, we'll go with Windows".
I think this is probably the deal breaker, and means Windows S is dead in the water.
To be pedantic: there are businesses called T-Mobile in various nations, but the company in the US is a distinct, publicly traded, separate entity from the others. I believe the German company still owns many of its shares, but it's not run by them and at this stage they're just another shareholder.
The article is about the US company of that name, not the Germany company.
Actually, I just checked, and I believe acroread is in the repositories (which is presumably why it asks for me to agree to the license periodically rather than just once) so "sudo apt-get install acroread" should do it.
That's because I was using a communications medium that runs at the (nearly) the speed of light, whereas you were stuck with a mere supersonic communications technology!
Nope, I'm talking about Acrobat Reader, which I downloaded and installed.
You haven't installed Adobe Reader. If you go to Adobe's website, install the GNU/Linux version, and reboot your computer, you should see the licence agreement behavior I'm talking about on the login screen.
Let me just be on record that I like my radiowave based light speed connections between my phone and the tower. I don't want to "upgrade" to something that's merely faster than sound!
Well, if it's running plugins automatically, then the bar to exploiting it has dropped considerably from "until you install a malicious theme". Now the exploit could be as simple as "Malicious plugin", or as complex as "Someone, somehow, because that NEVER happens, finds a bug in Adobe Reader, that they can exploit."
That's my major concern.
I run Mint but switched to LightDM after I found I kept having to agree to software licenses for Adobe Reader every time the latter was upgraded.
It turned out that Mint's default DM, mdm, uses webkit. Which it had configured to load plugins. So when mdm was started, the Acrobat Reader plugin was loaded, and I was being prompted to agree to the license.
And you're probably thinking "OK, squiggie, that's a minor inconvenience, so what?"
Well, what user do you think is running mdm, and running all those plugins? Give you a clue: starts with 'r'. Ends in 'oot'. Four letters.
Oh never mind, I didn't click through, yeah, weird they'd be running S on this thing. I don't see many schools rushing out to buy their students $1,000 laptops.