Many license plate databases are privately created and operated. Various law enforcement agencies subscribe to these databases rather than run their own. Fairfax can switch from their system to a commercial system.
Where does the data for these private systems come from? Auto repossessors, bail bondsmen, private investigators, etc. These folks have been known to constantly scan everywhere they go. Some even cruise mall, stadium, walmart parking lots to build up the database.
Basically private databases exist that may indicate places you likely visit or drive past. Law enforcement is only part of the problem.
They don't need hordes. One happy user every now and then can be enough. But when they look around they're greeted by the acerbic FOSS community, or even worse, silence and crickets.
People voluntarily and silently using your software are often happy users. They are telling you they are happy by using your software. If you need virtual hugs to continue developing software then you likely got into development for the wrong reason. Your primary validation is *your* opinion, your secondary validation are voluntary and active users. Virtual hugs are of far less importance than these two (and other) indicators.
Amen... Mint developers using their own product should be evidence enough whether they did a good job or not. They are perfectly capable themselves of judging their work. Feedback is over 10x more likely to be negative than positive, that's just reality, get over it. Accept this and don't take feedback to seriously. Are people using your software or not, after your own opinion, the size of that silent majority is your second point of validation. F*ck the forum whiners, don't take them too seriously. If they point out a legit bug, great. If they offer a useful suggestion, great. But if they are just offering a personal judgement, who the f*ck are they that you should give two sh*ts about their opinion?
What. The.Fuck?!?! You're writing code. If you need to "feel like [a hero]" to be successful at that, you have, umm, issues.
Someone sold them on the notion that they were revolutionaries, part of a movement. The politics/religion of Linux is at work here, unsurprisingly its counterproductive.
Code because coding interests you, is fun to you.
Share code with others because they share code with you, nothing more.
Don't bring political nor religious ideologies into the mix, you'll get farther without it in the end.
In other words, this development cycle wasn't fun and the devs feel too little appreciation in return.
Good thing their paychecks cleared the bank... oh wait.
More seriously, this is the advantage of commercial software and corporate directed FOSS projects. Paychecks are how the non-fun parts get done and projects completed. Getting volunteers to diligently work on the non-fun parts of a project can be a major hurdle to overcome.
Well to be fair, we are probably safer with the NSA monitoring us than with Facebook. There are opportunities for accountability with the NSA, not so with Facebook.
Actually we have good policy for what should be banned, a tangible and realistic threat of violence.
I am not a lawyer but my recollection from some readings I did a few years ago is that the US Supreme Court ruled that speech that tangibly threatens or incites violence can be banned. It all depends on the context of the speech not the words themselves, the context must include a tangible and realistic fear of violence. A satirical or rhetorical or similar threat would not be banned.
Similarly having your feelings greatly hurt, your inner self denied or dismissed, etc would not count as violence no matter how much "pain" you feel.
The problem is that content that people "don't agree with" is now what many consider restrictable, banable, equivalent to violence (or in their mind "actually" violence). The reaction to "offensive speech" is no longer to mock and ignore the speaker, it is now to silence the speaker (including the use of threats and force).
I'm not sure we can count on a modern interpretation of "clearly illegal".
No, no, no. The report written by Republican Mueller is merely further evidence of a conspiracy to protect Trump. Given the fact that Trump is guilty of everything, anything contradicting this fact is obviously disinformation and coverup by Mueller and other friends of Trump spread throughout the FBI and the DOJ, aka Trumplandia.
Thats dumb youre claiming that linux function as a hypervisor in Android ? Operating system abstracts things such as file persistence you dont have to know the SATA commands etc to write raw blocks. This is all done by linux, not dalwik. think of android as WIN95 ontop of dos6 a UI layer ontop of the underlying operating system.
"Hosting" covers quite a bit more than VM type situations. Operating systems hide hardware details from application programmers, and application programmers under Android see neither hardware details nor Linux implementation details/abstractions. They don't see Linux at all, its hidden just like the hardware. From the app developer's perspective Android is the operating system. The Linux kernel could be replaced with the old BSD kernel or Google's new Linux kernel replacement Fuscia and the Android developer would neither know nor care.
Yes, think of your analogy. Linux is the MS-DOS that the Win32 developer neither sees nor cares about. To the Win32 developer Win9x is the operating system and when they run their app on WinNT where DOS is replaced with NT kernel and drivers they neither know nor care.
As for the RX580 being top selling, I'm pretty sure that's due to miners.
You can be pretty sure you're wrong, confirmed by Steam's hardware survey that shows RX580 and other 500 series steadily increasing total installed share.
Yes, as the miners now sell their used 580s to gamers who were essentially locked out due to inflated prices for over a year.
Anyone and his dog are allowed to copy the base Android OS --- as Android is a fork of Linux anyway.
Android is *not* a fork of Linux. Android is effectively its own OS. It is merely hosted on Linux. The vast majority of Android devs and nearly all Android users see nothing of Linux, no more than someone using some other appliance that has a Linux kernel in the background.
... a 256 sq mile desert solar facility, for single example. You lose.
Actually you lose. Try to build that and you will get tied up in lawsuits just like the nuke industry when they want to build. That desert terrain will be habitat to some endangered tortoise, squirrel, rat, etc.
From where I sit (not in USA), Palin is extreme, no doubt, but OAC is one of the few American politicians that is not a nutjob. You are a victim of false equivalence if you equate the two.
It is not a false equivalence. Both believe the "morality" of their respective plans is more important than facts and numbers. The supporters of both foolishly judge plans according to "good intentions" and not realistic facts and figures. Its not a false equivalency. The two are remarkably alike, they merely come from opposite ends of the political spectrum. Anyone who likes either personality's plans is judging them through a quite political lens, also judging by intentions and not practical and realistic planning.
In short, both are good at peddling BS to the occupants of their respective political bubbles. Same coin, different sides.
Sheesh, the obsession with OAC is growing day by day. I thought you were going to show a solar panel.
Just like the obsession with Palin. Both are a constant source of humor. Like most people on the two political extremes that substitute wishful imaginary thinking for science and engineering.
I literally pointed to the definition in the Oxford dictionary.
And you literally missed the fact that your citation also contained the definition that I used. Our disagreement is that your phrasing was ambiguous, you meant adjective, others read it as a noun. Its as simple as that.
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Many license plate databases are privately created and operated. Various law enforcement agencies subscribe to these databases rather than run their own. Fairfax can switch from their system to a commercial system.
Where does the data for these private systems come from? Auto repossessors, bail bondsmen, private investigators, etc. These folks have been known to constantly scan everywhere they go. Some even cruise mall, stadium, walmart parking lots to build up the database.
Basically private databases exist that may indicate places you likely visit or drive past. Law enforcement is only part of the problem.
They don't need hordes. One happy user every now and then can be enough. But when they look around they're greeted by the acerbic FOSS community, or even worse, silence and crickets.
People voluntarily and silently using your software are often happy users. They are telling you they are happy by using your software. If you need virtual hugs to continue developing software then you likely got into development for the wrong reason. Your primary validation is *your* opinion, your secondary validation are voluntary and active users. Virtual hugs are of far less importance than these two (and other) indicators.
It does indeed help to know that your work is appreciated ...
If they are using your software you are being appreciated.
Amen ... Mint developers using their own product should be evidence enough whether they did a good job or not. They are perfectly capable themselves of judging their work. Feedback is over 10x more likely to be negative than positive, that's just reality, get over it. Accept this and don't take feedback to seriously. Are people using your software or not, after your own opinion, the size of that silent majority is your second point of validation. F*ck the forum whiners, don't take them too seriously. If they point out a legit bug, great. If they offer a useful suggestion, great. But if they are just offering a personal judgement, who the f*ck are they that you should give two sh*ts about their opinion?
What. The.Fuck?!?! You're writing code. If you need to "feel like [a hero]" to be successful at that, you have, umm, issues.
Someone sold them on the notion that they were revolutionaries, part of a movement. The politics/religion of Linux is at work here, unsurprisingly its counterproductive.
Code because coding interests you, is fun to you.
Share code with others because they share code with you, nothing more.
Don't bring political nor religious ideologies into the mix, you'll get farther without it in the end.
In other words, this development cycle wasn't fun and the devs feel too little appreciation in return.
Good thing their paychecks cleared the bank ... oh wait.
More seriously, this is the advantage of commercial software and corporate directed FOSS projects. Paychecks are how the non-fun parts get done and projects completed. Getting volunteers to diligently work on the non-fun parts of a project can be a major hurdle to overcome.
Damn slashdot, reposting questions that were answered in the days of Compuserve and BIX. Must be a new record on being slow to report something. ;-)
Well to be fair, we are probably safer with the NSA monitoring us than with Facebook. There are opportunities for accountability with the NSA, not so with Facebook.
Actually we have good policy for what should be banned, a tangible and realistic threat of violence.
I am not a lawyer but my recollection from some readings I did a few years ago is that the US Supreme Court ruled that speech that tangibly threatens or incites violence can be banned. It all depends on the context of the speech not the words themselves, the context must include a tangible and realistic fear of violence. A satirical or rhetorical or similar threat would not be banned.
Similarly having your feelings greatly hurt, your inner self denied or dismissed, etc would not count as violence no matter how much "pain" you feel.
The problem is that content that people "don't agree with" is now what many consider restrictable, banable, equivalent to violence (or in their mind "actually" violence). The reaction to "offensive speech" is no longer to mock and ignore the speaker, it is now to silence the speaker (including the use of threats and force).
I'm not sure we can count on a modern interpretation of "clearly illegal".
The preceding is my contribution to suicide prevention. Given the left-wing a thread of hope to cling to. ;-)
Left-wing conspiracy kooks on suicide watch!
No, no, no. The report written by Republican Mueller is merely further evidence of a conspiracy to protect Trump. Given the fact that Trump is guilty of everything, anything contradicting this fact is obviously disinformation and coverup by Mueller and other friends of Trump spread throughout the FBI and the DOJ, aka Trumplandia.
;-)
Monopolism is a crime. As is artificial scarcity.
Unless it is based upon a government issued patent. Then it is perfectly legal.
Thats dumb youre claiming that linux function as a hypervisor in Android ? Operating system abstracts things such as file persistence you dont have to know the SATA commands etc to write raw blocks. This is all done by linux, not dalwik. think of android as WIN95 ontop of dos6 a UI layer ontop of the underlying operating system.
"Hosting" covers quite a bit more than VM type situations. Operating systems hide hardware details from application programmers, and application programmers under Android see neither hardware details nor Linux implementation details/abstractions. They don't see Linux at all, its hidden just like the hardware. From the app developer's perspective Android is the operating system. The Linux kernel could be replaced with the old BSD kernel or Google's new Linux kernel replacement Fuscia and the Android developer would neither know nor care.
Yes, think of your analogy. Linux is the MS-DOS that the Win32 developer neither sees nor cares about. To the Win32 developer Win9x is the operating system and when they run their app on WinNT where DOS is replaced with NT kernel and drivers they neither know nor care.
As for the RX580 being top selling, I'm pretty sure that's due to miners.
You can be pretty sure you're wrong, confirmed by Steam's hardware survey that shows RX580 and other 500 series steadily increasing total installed share.
Yes, as the miners now sell their used 580s to gamers who were essentially locked out due to inflated prices for over a year.
Huawei Says It Has a Backup OS In Case It's Cut Off From Android
More likely in case Google actually stops developing the censorship / monitoring versions of their software for China.
Probably a copy of Android.....
Anyone and his dog are allowed to copy the base Android OS --- as Android is a fork of Linux anyway.
Android is *not* a fork of Linux. Android is effectively its own OS. It is merely hosted on Linux. The vast majority of Android devs and nearly all Android users see nothing of Linux, no more than someone using some other appliance that has a Linux kernel in the background.
Holy shit, SCORES? Literally DOZENS? Obviously this is a clear and present danger to our democracy! Yikes!
Yeah, because a handful of votes at the "correct" time and place can't have disproportionately wide ramifications ... oh wait
... oh wait.
Now replace parent with employer, phone pics of paper ballot or paper verification for a "bonus".
Or replace employer with a political operative paying out cash.
Its not like these weren't problems in America's past
You didn't mention "blockchain", no funding for you. ;-)
... a 256 sq mile desert solar facility, for single example. You lose.
Actually you lose. Try to build that and you will get tied up in lawsuits just like the nuke industry when they want to build. That desert terrain will be habitat to some endangered tortoise, squirrel, rat, etc.
No - a mixture of socialism and capitalism works best.
When north sea oil/gas production subsidizes your socialism.
From where I sit (not in USA), Palin is extreme, no doubt, but OAC is one of the few American politicians that is not a nutjob. You are a victim of false equivalence if you equate the two.
It is not a false equivalence. Both believe the "morality" of their respective plans is more important than facts and numbers. The supporters of both foolishly judge plans according to "good intentions" and not realistic facts and figures. Its not a false equivalency. The two are remarkably alike, they merely come from opposite ends of the political spectrum. Anyone who likes either personality's plans is judging them through a quite political lens, also judging by intentions and not practical and realistic planning. In short, both are good at peddling BS to the occupants of their respective political bubbles. Same coin, different sides.
Sheesh, the obsession with OAC is growing day by day. I thought you were going to show a solar panel.
Just like the obsession with Palin. Both are a constant source of humor. Like most people on the two political extremes that substitute wishful imaginary thinking for science and engineering.
I wonder if it needs energy to do this, an amount of energy greater then the energy produced by burning it in the first place?
If so, why not just use that energy instead? Cut out the middle man.
Use any excess generation capacity from renewables and nuclear. Yes nuclear, the power source that has killed fewer people than coal, oil, etc.
I literally pointed to the definition in the Oxford dictionary.
And you literally missed the fact that your citation also contained the definition that I used. Our disagreement is that your phrasing was ambiguous, you meant adjective, others read it as a noun. Its as simple as that.