Its the internetwork connect. Its a framework of voluntarily linking connections for mutual
surely comcast can create a parallel construction and sell however they wish like a private toll road. It could have discrete points where it could tap into the "real" internet. Thus amazon or netflix or whomever could connect into this autobahn on the goes-into side and pop out into "the" internet at some Comcast hub in the customers town.
If this happens, I'll eat my hat. No one is going to buy anything but the real internet, and you won't see company set up shop without users, which are all on the real internet. Also, the instant they start offering an internet gateway they become an ISP and regulatable, so there is no loophole. If they don't, they will need content on their private network, which no one is going to provide, because most of the content exists outside their networks. No one wants their shitty content, and thats their problem. If people did, they wouldn't have to throttle netflix for competing with their services.
Picture it like FED Ex, transporting a package 90% of the way, then mailing it. the postoffice might not charge differently for different customers and Fed Ex might not either (or they could) but only customers with valuable deliveries would be willing to pay the cost of the combined service, which would be dominated by the Fed Ex high speed service.
almost completely diffrent because niether fedex nor the post office own any of the infrasturcture, just the delievery mechanism. Any delivery service can use the same roads.
to be honest, if you really want the government to say out of things like this, we can do things like work together to keep assholes out. Government regulation while unoptimal is better than regulation than by comcast, verizon and other edge customer providers. Guess what, other companies would basicly have to live with them pushing them around.
A better option would be getting some of the larger carriers, webhosting companies, regular users, activists alike and forming an alliance to keep comcast from regulating the internet. Either no one was intrested, or didn't care enough. the FCC option is better than nothing.
No different from Soon, where he is being attacked NOT because the current funding is from Koch, but because he had the audacity to EVER take money fro them. No different, except Soon is not groping women (if you want to rank offenses).
groping women and doing bad science are completely unrelated. You can be a terrible person, but still a good scientist. You can be an unethical scientist(doing things like torture), and still be a good scientist.
You can be a good person, and still be a shitty scientist. You also seem to be mixing up correlation and casuation. Again, its probably because you don't understand science.
Exactly, which is why he's in climate science, which at this point has more akin to astrology in terms of accuracy and actual "science". Just because his chicken bones come in the form of heavily doctored data does not make his prognosis any less Scienthy.
Um not really. you have nothing to back up your claim that his work was heavily doctored except you disagree with it, and are simply making counter arguments to take the heat off a scientist who has been caught red handed.
Its censorship policy is closer to "appease those with power". The irony is that the only reason they gave a shit about "the fappening" is because it was celebrities. people trade leaked pictures of average janes everyday and no one gives a shit. Its only abuse when its celebrities.
Speaking of the so called "feminists", and supposed "socialists" tend to only support socialist ideals when its protecting people in power, with money, which calls into question their credibility as socialists. Many have a complete active distaste for critical theory along the lines of class, which is more or less disgusting. They are nothing but extremist liberals, and progressives.
A big glaring contradiction is the entire time #gamergate and the fappening was going on, not a word was mentioned about spousal abuse in the NFL, Bill Cosby raping little girls, and certainly nothing about Roman Polanksy making the last page of the paper as trying to get back into the country. Way too many "feminists", especially those in the Media industry, bend over backwards to apologize for his rape of a thirteen year old girl, using language anyone familiar with the MRA scene should recognize. Most of these "feminists" and "socialists" seem to be OK with not just ignoring, but actively supporting rape culture, as long as its done supporting the existing class structure. (rich/popular people have an explicit right to rape those lower on the totem pole).
The we get to reddit, which is run by advertisers. Guess what this smells like? Class warfare. I think its time to wake up and shake off the anti-socialist propaganda and get some critical thinking skills.
thats terrible methodology. abuse is abuse regardless of who does it. bad things should be stopped because of the overall effect they have, not because who is doing it.
This is purely an "ad hominem". The fact that the man is a crappy person in his personal life has no bearing on his scientific research. Science has no bearing on the character of the person doing it. Only if the experiments where performed in a way that proves the hypothesis. Not that all Science is ethical, or all scientists are ethical, but science is nothing more than what can be proved by deductive reasoning. Something that this man has done. The fact a man is a scumbag does
This is what most people do not understand science is that it is not the worship of men in labcoats.
Also, if he really wanted to just get laid, hard science is the worst place to do it. Communications majors is most likely going to do it for you. That litterally is a field where substance of work is directly related to the character of those who perform it.
Lets be be fair, and that 90% of everything you see on TV is bought and paid for by someone with an agenda. What I'm affraid of is muck raking turning into a one side politically oriented witch hunt that is "only right when I do it". Anti-capitalist "exposes" will be done by one group of capitalists against another, while feverntly blocking their own funding sources.
We can't get the same standards for police brutality that exist in Fergeson to be applies in LA, Chicago, or New York City. We can't get the same standards of ethics you have on the oil industry to apply to Big Media, Big Pharma, and of course the Globalization cartel.
Muck Raking has been turned into an extortion racket. I'm not taking part.
agreed. you also forgot most major corporations, world wide of all nations as well.
There is no better reason then to stiff up your lip, and write backdoors for no one. The best practice for dealing with the NSA just happens to be best practice for dealing with the GCHQ, Russian FSB, and whatever the chineese, french, or any other nation state has.
1. blow the whistle on everything. Don't ever spy exlusively for any powerful institution.
2. don't write backdoors for anyone
3. don't weaken crypto for anyone
4. don't get involved in super-secret squirel spy-vs-spy plots, for anyone, for any reason(you never know who's pulling the strings, and you know they are all bad). Stay away from the shadows as much as you can. Drain the swamp on unethical behavior
5. write/use/recommend systems that are more distributed and peer to peer systems that can't be controlled centrally, and are hard to stop, or monitor.
6. Release all code and schematics Free and Open Source. Help inspect and audit others code.
7. Put all bugs in the core stack of Free software in appropriate bug trackers and get them fixed, to prevent people from getting spied on. If any company open sources their firmware, help them make sure there are no backdoors or other bugs in it.(its a self serving favor, like everything in Open Source).(white hat hacktivism is best hacktivism)
8. Associate with like minded people to help protect yourself. Agitate to get people to fix bugs, and adhere to the above. Don't be affraid of making alliances of mutual aid, which are unconventional, if they work in common intrest.(an Anarchist as myself, teaming up with corporations to make sure that critical pieces of software and hardware remain free and secure, and readily available).
The point is that we can make social change that weakens the ability of large organizations to use surviallence as leverage against non-involved citizens and use people against their will. This will make governments world wide need more consent from the people to rule, thus improving conditions for everyone world wide
All hackers, programmers, technicians, can and will make a diffrence.
If I got a penny for everytime I run into windows systems... Even saw a few very very old netware servers recently. Anyway people make the incorrect assumption "servers" equals "web servers" sadly, and then indeed linux has the majority market share. But a lot of software used in an industrial setting simply does not work on Linux/BSD/..., or turn-key systems are bought which quite often run Windows. Or god-forbid: HP-UX, though that one is actually fairly nice if you have some time to sit down with it.
Also forgot solaris in there. Yes, there are a lot of server operating systems, and windows does hold a sizable(double digits), minority share, but linux holds a majority share, and has a double digit presence in every market but desktop. Throw in FreeBSD, and the FOSS *NIX share for servers is somewhere around ~%80
Yes, because things like Cray Linux with customized micro kernels don't exist... Its not because they say "oh hey it uses... linux" in the top 500 list that it's a standard build. It'd be like claiming that China's latest super computer runs Ubuntu. It might be based on it, but you can be pretty damn sure it was optimized. You don't make a multi-million investment to then squander it away with inefficient resource usage.
I asked for a citation, not speculation. Linux is a kernel, GNU is the userland, Ubuntu is a distribution. tweaking a few install settings and adding a few extra patches does not make it "might as well be a whole new kernel", and so does not enabling things not enabled by default. Also turning on features not turned on by default does not count either. Trust me I've compiled, tweaked and patched enough Linux kernels to know this. While I certainly agree super computer kernels are tweaked, the notion "they might as well not be Linux", does not hold water. You might as well say that every Gentoo user "might as well not be using linux", because they all have custom per-machine user compile time configured kernels, which is required as part of the installation.
Keep on dreaming. If you were to run a fully unoptimized kernel on a phone you'd drain the battery in less than 2 hours most likely. (Please note: I do not consider compiler conditionals the same code. because you could really just put two complete different versions in there and switch between them with conditional constructs) People seem to forget how big of a deal scheduling and power management is on mobile devices. The battery capacity hasn't increased that much over the past years, the power management on the other hand has made huge steps forward.
the wake-locks and power management for android has been mainlined in Linux proper since 3.4. tweaking compile time options is fucking easy, and doesn't change the fact its the exact same kernel, and exact same code. Combined with above comment, its fairly clear you don't have a damn clue what you're talking about. Perhaps you just pick up buzzwords from read computer news.
You wish.
You've never actually used either ubuntu or mint in the last 5 years. Its painfully obvious. I've gotten total newbs to do it.
You don't have the damnest clue what the fuck are you talking about.
The fact that you think they take a huge interest in what an average person has to say scares me more than the fact that they bother to go over everything they can get their hands on. Also realize some (a.k.a. most) don't live in the US, and we actually think about who we vote on.
implying I'm stalking you because I've taken the time to respond to your arguments thoughtfully and patiently. great analogy, it holds water. You've likewise seem to have equal intrest in this conversation.
Actually I do not like what he has to say, he instantly kills any possibility of cooperation with his behaviour. His "no binary drivers" thing pretty much stops proper hardware support in its tracks.
co-operation with who and what? The only hardware that we really loose are the high performance ATI and nVidia drivers. Everything else can easily be replaced. Guess what, if we start accepting binary blobs and stop pushing manufactures for open drivers, guess what happens to driver quality? It goes down the shitter, because some no name chineese/korean company isn't going to give a shit about "just works" on linux as much as the kernel devs.
Funny you should say that, it took me about 10 minutes to find and download the windows drivers for everything in my latest computer. It took me about 10 hours to get an acceptable performance out of my Intel WiFi chipset on Linux though. And I sort of gave up in the end and use a cable these days
Whats really funny is installing windows where half the devices show up as yellow ?s, and then hunting for drivers. I haven't had a problem with linux wifi in years.(since kernel 2.6.28). I never had to install a driver beyond propertiary ones, and even that is easy.
Yes, because it totally doesn't store the parameters in a series of shell scripts that are executed at boot. *cough*
it doesn't actually. its quite apparent you haven't spent much time really using modern GNU/Linux.
I should point out I stopped reading at "hostile government". Guess what, you determine who's in the government. Its your own damned fault, get your head out of your ass and do something about it in the voting booth next time.
my fault? I vote every time. Anyways, most modern studies conducted by credible(read not think tanks) sources have shown there is little correlation between voting, populist action, and policy, and there is little way to change policy at the voting both. For all intents and purposes we don't live in a democracy, other than the real base observation that they take and count votes, inclusive of many other countries which aren't real democracies.
And this is why we can't have nice things.
We *do* have nice things. If we let in the riff raff, the people who make $500 for in-app purchases, and then get mad about it, we won't have nice things. We don't need the year of the Linux(or GNU) desktop. its counter-intuitive. It will financially incentivise destroying everything good about linux.
If you're vision of Linux, is a closed mess of unfree apps, vendor lock ins, pay-for-premium, spyware, but still has some underlying *NIX support, and mainstream application support, do all of us here a huge favor, and just go buy yourself a mac, and leave us alone.
As far as the GNU/Linux desktop, most of the guts are maintened by Red Hat, Canonical, and a few other companies for the type of people who work on their servers as a day job.(which is me). It suites us fine for what it does.
back in 1985 mabey. the the i386 archecture is livable, and the AMD64 and i686 more so, especially with all the SIMD add on instruction sets.
In the post y2k world, there are many instances where both SPARC and ARM where playing catch up with x86. For example, the i686 added out of order instructions, something it took Sparc 10 years to catch up. ARM is still playing catch up on a 64 bit implementation, and since the late 90s, has been almost soley the domain of embedded computers, and not feasible for minicomputers, or larger scale deployments.
X86 was a poor ISA when the first 8086 chips were made (but good, given hardware capabilities at the time). That was about 40 years ago. MIPS and Sparc (and ARM) are all better than x86.
the 8086-286 where not bad computers, they were simply a class of computer below mips, sparc, alpha, etc... They were not direct competitors, and sold to vastly diffrent markets and pricing on the groups where diffrent by powers of ten. MIPS, Sparc, Alpha, POWER, where considered minicomputers while the 8086 was considered a microcomputer.
The line between mini and microcomputers has been blurred ever since the introduction of the i386, with a few minicomputer capabilities, and additional models contiued to implement more and more minicomputer functionality until the x86 became a low end minicomputer and was able to directly compete with Sparc and Alpha. While not directly as powerful, they were still powers of ten cheaper and more affordable, while only being powers of 2 less powerful. x86 was by far the best when it came to performace per dollar, the critical aspect when it comes to corporate purchasing.
With smartphones, ARM made an upgrade to the same top tier status as intel, and while not quite as powerful, is a strong competitor in the performance per watt, and performance per dollar. A crown that intel stole from the now extinct mini-computers of yesteryear.
3D printers are Competition Enablers. The allow unathorized competition to certian companies.
Cyberspace(the internet, and all virtual space on interactive computers), there is no sarcity of goods. Companies can only profit by created scarcity to drive demand, and to do that, they need to ban people from doing things for themselves.
This is no diffrent than a pimp accusing your girlfriend of "stealing" his business by providing sex for "free"
majority share, trend is going towards linux. All the big companies run linux webservers, exception of netflix for FreeBSD.
On super computers its usually a heavily customized version, you could just as well use BSD as starting point to be honest.
[citation please]
On smartphones it has been so heavily modified that you wouldn't recognize it if you start taking a closer look at it.
nope actually. all the android kernel patches have been mainlined since 3.4. What you mean is that they don't run the GNU userland, but instead their own userland based on BIONIC C lib, and their own custom version of java. I trust you understand the diffrence between kernel and userspace. It becomes more aparant when you run custom roms.
Now if the default worked I'd love to do that, sadly it rarely does.
if you're using ubuntu or mint it does, simply slip the install disk and bam.
I suggest if there is ever an event nearby where he speaks that you talk to him for half a minute, lets see how much of your view of said person is left standing. He's an annoying jerk who lives in the eighties who didn't yet get the memo that not everyone is spying on him or is strictly interested in what he thinks. But lets not get into detail about this one.
I didn't think you got the memo that they are spying on you. I mean we can pretend the snowden leak didn't happen, or be coy about the extent, or the fact that bits and pieces of been leaked for years, many times appearing on slashdot. We can pretend that he hasn't been the victim of a massive character attack against him.
You don't need a person like that to stand up for your principles, if you must find somebody to stand up for them I'd say go for Linus. He might be a jerk, but he's not an obnoxious paranoid unreasonable person.
Guess what, the world is full of jerks. Studies conclude that rude people are more honest. I don't find Stallman paranoid one bit, most of his "paranoia" over the years has been proven justified.
I think the real issue is you simply don't like what he has to say.
I have yet to see evidence of this statement. Every computer I install linux on, I must point out this is on recent hardware and often laptops, I usually end up having to fiddle with the driver settings because some person somewhere decided that having the default settings automatically loaded into configuration files was a bad idea.
my reaction has been just the opposite, drivers for all but the most obscure devices simply load themselves with no interaction. Except the full performance video card drivers. Thats as easy as installing a package and restarting.
Keep in mind the Windows driver figures out these things by itself, mostly because it doesn't have to take into account 50000 different possible locations for said configuration file.
I've always had driver hell on windows. Half the devices don't show on install, god help you if the ethernet driver doesn't work, and you can't find the install disk. Then you get to the 50,000 diffrent versions of the driver, the buggy piece of shit that comes with windows, or is it driver on the manufactures website which is poorly translated from cantoneese, into mandarin, into russian, into english, that took you 3 hours of searching to find because the company either merged, went out of business, or obsoleted the driver.
Also, drivers don't have configuration files in linux, they are kernel modules, most of them come with the kernel and are located in/usr/lib/modules/, and linux/udev simply loads them when it detects them, occationally you need to modprobe them and list them in a plain text file in/etc/modules-load.d
have fun also uninstalling all
Pretty sure they aren't.
oh, well you reminded me of someone else. Someone with the same strawmen, and bad arguments
Anyways, point still stands. I'd rather have people like Stallman than people like you. There are many reasons to be concerned about privacy, and its been proven that closed modules like DRM, and various phone home utilies exist, track users, and many times leave personal data out in the open, or on company servers, where identity theft is one of the fastest growing, hardest to catch crimes there is right now. We have a hostile government that doesn't give a shit, because they use the same methods to spy on is, and it makes it easy.
We don't need people who don't take Freedom, openess, security and saftey seriously. We also don't need people who are quick to make political compromises to fit in with powerful people, at the expense of the general populace.
We don't need "year of the Linux desktop". It does not benefit either GNU or Linux, we simply do not need it. It would be nice sure, but its simply not essential. More important is taking a stand and explaining to the rest of society why we do, rather than what.
god help you if you ask them what security they provide.
First you'll find that the powers you gave them "only to fight terrorism" are being used to drug cases and other petty crime
Next you'll find that drug cases and other petty crime are only against personal enemies, and done with such dubious methods you cannot be sure of their guilt, and their powers aren't being used to find bad guys, but to frame people.
What the three letter soup wants is power to frame people and not have the framing questioned, by framing anyone who questions them.
You see we've been tacitly complicit in giving up our rights to fight "the war on drugs", but instead of stomping out drug use, drug use has soared, and our rights have been abandonded. They have no intention of protecting you from drugs or terrorism, and don't mind the occational terrorist or drug lord from causing a muckety muck to expand their powers.
I've been long done with this "year of the linux desktop", and I don't see why I'd even want such a thing.
The only thing that matters to me is attracting enough developers to Free software to keep it maintained. So like everything else, target audience is key. The person in mainstream society right now does not add anything, and may serve to cause problems, and perhaps even disrupt the ecosystem. The more of them, and less of us, the even less developers are going to care about the tinkerers, geeks, and hackers.
Microsoft is releasing.NET as FOSS, hopefully we can use that to improve mono, and if we can get them to release their APIs (win32/64, DirectX, microsoft office document formats), so we can interact fully with windows users, it would be enough.
I run Linux on all my desktops and laptops. I don't think its an imperative that everyone else do so. In fact, I don't think it will ever happen because people associated the term "Linux" with "Nerd" with "undesirable". No matter how well it runs, or how well its supported, people just won't do it, because they'll be affraid of being labeled as a Linux User. People who run macs do so because they like the notorority of being diffrent, along with a company that purposefully sculps its image to be hipster friendly.
For linux to have a brand makeover, we'd have to let the yuppie brand management PR goons in who will ruin everything, and disrupt the type of communities we have. All for what? A materialist yuppie who'd only believes in ethics and virtue as a conversation piece of impress their friends? Someone who'd do minimum amoung of work, wanting maximum amount of credit? What would they really add?
You hated init scripts ? I loved them. I loved the flexibility and power they gave me. If I wanted my webserver to start later, or I wanted to tweak the way it got started to fit some localized need - I could do that, with no risk of breaking anything else.
How exactly would I do this with systemd ? It's opague and hard to figure out and badly documented and I can't pipe the stuff between a thousand disparate commands to construct whatever I need on the fly as and when I need it - those are the REASONS to use Linux (technical reasons).
you could use Before= and After= in the systemd unit files, you can even place overrides in/etc/systemd/system/ instead of modifying the package files in/usr/lib if you so choose:
Do you know what, editting what is typically 10 lines of key=value pairs in a config file is a hell of a lot easier and safer than monkying with some bash script.(or dash in debian).
Do you know what else I don't miss, stuck proccesses, when a proccess hangs, and/etc/init.d/proccessname can't do a damn thing about it, and it still leaves its pid file to clean up. speaking of which, the PID file is the only way that the rest of the system knows if the program is running or not. systemctl stop has never failed me. It hits with the power of kill -9 and cleans up the mess. Which is great because if you run a poorly written program with an equally poorly written init script, systemd is better at getting that crap off your system.
Oh yeah, and the fact is your running a shell script to start and stop programs. What could possibly go wrong. Its like having your car held together with duct tape.
but yes, systemd is very configurable, with easy to read configuration files. Configuration files that work key=pair, like everything else.
Then we get to runlevels, instead of an esotetic mess of 123560, we get singleuser, multiuser,reboot, etc...
If you want/need syslog back you can edit/etc/systemd/journald.conf and uncommont FowardToSyslog= and change the value to "yes".
it is, in fact, a very sound way to engineer an operating system
Its a sound way to engineer nothing. Its akin to having many moving parts, and many more points of failure. One of GNU/Linux's greatest weaknesses is that its many moving parts written by diffrent peope.
people weren't this pissed when HAL was depreciated and the functionality taken over by udev. Again, one less moving part. One less point of failure.
Its worse then a "lie", its propaganda, treason, and and a personal assault, done by a subhuman "other", out to destroy everything they hold sacred in life.
except we are talking about a piece of Free software, not a corporate product.
If you hate it so much, use ms-windows.
False dichomoty, its either "Use Windows" or "Use UNIX".
one big super-complex blob
just like the Linux kernel.
No, I actuall like GNU, if you like UNIX so much go use solaris or FreeBSD, and leave GNU alone. Oh, and have fun getting driver support with that.
BTW: the UNIX philosophy is not just dogma, it has a practical purpose and has worked very well.
systemd actually fucking works, and those fanboys are satisfied users. All we have is a few haters that are simply mad things didn't work the same way they've always worked.
As far as this "UNIX Philosphy", fuck that shit. Go dig your PDP-7 out of your closet if you want to run UNIX. GNU's Not UNIX, not because its just a silly name, its because Stallman hated fucking UNIX, but only adapted partial UNIX compatibility to drag in a larger user base.(EMACS being essentially a LISP machine that runs ontop of UNIX, Stallman liked LISP machines)
for fucks sake, we've had --plain-text options alongside single -o options since day one. Thats un-unix like.
Do you want to know what was also one heaping mess of fail? debian's initscripts, along with fucking apt. Fucking complicated derpish bullshit. I'm not missing initscripts. no sir.
you can. you can re-compile the kernel for low-latency realtime by dicking around with compile time options. you can run jack instead of pulse, and you can have a fairly decent pro-audio production setup.
That said, we are talking about consumer grade setups, and the default of 350hz timer, and pulse works just fine for that.
Doing something that much more hardcore, re-compile the kernel, I do believe debian and ubuntu provide low-latency and realtime kernel along with packaging for related programs, and guides do exist for other distros.
I do believe if you are a highly trained technician, you can be expected to know your tools better than the average consumer who doesn't want to fuck with it. If you're getting paid, its also job security.
I'll be damn honest and say pulse does a lot of things you didn't do back then.
If you really want, you can uninstall Unity, and run xfce, LXDE, or something else lightweight which resembles fairly closely the state of GNU/Linux in 1995 when your Pentium 1 was king.
Actually no, I remember those days. GNU/Linux was fucking ugly as dogshit, Windows was buggy and unreliable, and Macs where worthless. Playing an MP3 File choaked 75% of the cpu on one of those early "media" PCs, about 90% for ogg. You could basicly use IRC, or a terminal session and that was it. Web browsing while listening to mp3s was a no-no.
It wasn't until around the late pentium 2, early pentium 3 era, where you could sorta mutli-task like you do today, and listen to mp3s in the fucking background
As far as pulse goes, I like being able to yak on teamspeak on my USB headset, while rocking out to tunes played over my sound card, and being able to adjust per-proccess audio. Works great in pulse. Setting up native 8 channel speaker support is easy as well. No real special hardware. I agree audio is something we need to do well, and as far as consumer audio goes, pulse knocks it out of the park.
No one is making you use pulse, or even Ubuntu. If you want a minimal desktop run something else. you can run bare ALSA on xfce. It works for basic things, but trying to manage 8 speakers with multiple specialty cards(bluetooth and USB headsets,docking stations), is a fucking pain in the ass.
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Is there a definition of what is THE internet?
Its the internetwork connect. Its a framework of voluntarily linking connections for mutual
surely comcast can create a parallel construction and sell however they wish like a private toll road. It could have discrete points where it could tap into the "real" internet. Thus amazon or netflix or whomever could connect into this autobahn on the goes-into side and pop out into "the" internet at some Comcast hub in the customers town.
If this happens, I'll eat my hat. No one is going to buy anything but the real internet, and you won't see company set up shop without users, which are all on the real internet. Also, the instant they start offering an internet gateway they become an ISP and regulatable, so there is no loophole. If they don't, they will need content on their private network, which no one is going to provide, because most of the content exists outside their networks. No one wants their shitty content, and thats their problem. If people did, they wouldn't have to throttle netflix for competing with their services.
Picture it like FED Ex, transporting a package 90% of the way, then mailing it. the postoffice might not charge differently for different customers and Fed Ex might not either (or they could) but only customers with valuable deliveries would be willing to pay the cost of the combined service, which would be dominated by the Fed Ex high speed service.
almost completely diffrent because niether fedex nor the post office own any of the infrasturcture, just the delievery mechanism. Any delivery service can use the same roads.
A better option would be getting some of the larger carriers, webhosting companies, regular users, activists alike and forming an alliance to keep comcast from regulating the internet. Either no one was intrested, or didn't care enough. the FCC option is better than nothing.
No different from Soon, where he is being attacked NOT because the current funding is from Koch, but because he had the audacity to EVER take money fro them. No different, except Soon is not groping women (if you want to rank offenses).
groping women and doing bad science are completely unrelated. You can be a terrible person, but still a good scientist. You can be an unethical scientist(doing things like torture), and still be a good scientist.
You can be a good person, and still be a shitty scientist. You also seem to be mixing up correlation and casuation. Again, its probably because you don't understand science.
Exactly, which is why he's in climate science, which at this point has more akin to astrology in terms of accuracy and actual "science". Just because his chicken bones come in the form of heavily doctored data does not make his prognosis any less Scienthy.
Um not really. you have nothing to back up your claim that his work was heavily doctored except you disagree with it, and are simply making counter arguments to take the heat off a scientist who has been caught red handed.
Speaking of the so called "feminists", and supposed "socialists" tend to only support socialist ideals when its protecting people in power, with money, which calls into question their credibility as socialists. Many have a complete active distaste for critical theory along the lines of class, which is more or less disgusting. They are nothing but extremist liberals, and progressives.
A big glaring contradiction is the entire time #gamergate and the fappening was going on, not a word was mentioned about spousal abuse in the NFL, Bill Cosby raping little girls, and certainly nothing about Roman Polanksy making the last page of the paper as trying to get back into the country. Way too many "feminists", especially those in the Media industry, bend over backwards to apologize for his rape of a thirteen year old girl, using language anyone familiar with the MRA scene should recognize. Most of these "feminists" and "socialists" seem to be OK with not just ignoring, but actively supporting rape culture, as long as its done supporting the existing class structure. (rich/popular people have an explicit right to rape those lower on the totem pole).
The we get to reddit, which is run by advertisers. Guess what this smells like? Class warfare. I think its time to wake up and shake off the anti-socialist propaganda and get some critical thinking skills.
1. If it's not government if it's not censorship.
thats terrible methodology. abuse is abuse regardless of who does it. bad things should be stopped because of the overall effect they have, not because who is doing it.
This is what most people do not understand science is that it is not the worship of men in labcoats.
Also, if he really wanted to just get laid, hard science is the worst place to do it. Communications majors is most likely going to do it for you. That litterally is a field where substance of work is directly related to the character of those who perform it.
We can't get the same standards for police brutality that exist in Fergeson to be applies in LA, Chicago, or New York City. We can't get the same standards of ethics you have on the oil industry to apply to Big Media, Big Pharma, and of course the Globalization cartel.
Muck Raking has been turned into an extortion racket. I'm not taking part.
There is no better reason then to stiff up your lip, and write backdoors for no one. The best practice for dealing with the NSA just happens to be best practice for dealing with the GCHQ, Russian FSB, and whatever the chineese, french, or any other nation state has.
1. blow the whistle on everything. Don't ever spy exlusively for any powerful institution.
2. don't write backdoors for anyone
3. don't weaken crypto for anyone
4. don't get involved in super-secret squirel spy-vs-spy plots, for anyone, for any reason(you never know who's pulling the strings, and you know they are all bad). Stay away from the shadows as much as you can. Drain the swamp on unethical behavior
5. write/use/recommend systems that are more distributed and peer to peer systems that can't be controlled centrally, and are hard to stop, or monitor.
6. Release all code and schematics Free and Open Source. Help inspect and audit others code.
7. Put all bugs in the core stack of Free software in appropriate bug trackers and get them fixed, to prevent people from getting spied on. If any company open sources their firmware, help them make sure there are no backdoors or other bugs in it.(its a self serving favor, like everything in Open Source).(white hat hacktivism is best hacktivism) 8. Associate with like minded people to help protect yourself. Agitate to get people to fix bugs, and adhere to the above. Don't be affraid of making alliances of mutual aid, which are unconventional, if they work in common intrest.(an Anarchist as myself, teaming up with corporations to make sure that critical pieces of software and hardware remain free and secure, and readily available).
The point is that we can make social change that weakens the ability of large organizations to use surviallence as leverage against non-involved citizens and use people against their will. This will make governments world wide need more consent from the people to rule, thus improving conditions for everyone world wide
All hackers, programmers, technicians, can and will make a diffrence.
If I got a penny for everytime I run into windows systems... Even saw a few very very old netware servers recently. Anyway people make the incorrect assumption "servers" equals "web servers" sadly, and then indeed linux has the majority market share. But a lot of software used in an industrial setting simply does not work on Linux/BSD/..., or turn-key systems are bought which quite often run Windows. Or god-forbid: HP-UX, though that one is actually fairly nice if you have some time to sit down with it.
Also forgot solaris in there. Yes, there are a lot of server operating systems, and windows does hold a sizable(double digits), minority share, but linux holds a majority share, and has a double digit presence in every market but desktop. Throw in FreeBSD, and the FOSS *NIX share for servers is somewhere around ~%80
Yes, because things like Cray Linux with customized micro kernels don't exist... Its not because they say "oh hey it uses ... linux" in the top 500 list that it's a standard build. It'd be like claiming that China's latest super computer runs Ubuntu. It might be based on it, but you can be pretty damn sure it was optimized. You don't make a multi-million investment to then squander it away with inefficient resource usage.
I asked for a citation, not speculation. Linux is a kernel, GNU is the userland, Ubuntu is a distribution. tweaking a few install settings and adding a few extra patches does not make it "might as well be a whole new kernel", and so does not enabling things not enabled by default. Also turning on features not turned on by default does not count either. Trust me I've compiled, tweaked and patched enough Linux kernels to know this. While I certainly agree super computer kernels are tweaked, the notion "they might as well not be Linux", does not hold water. You might as well say that every Gentoo user "might as well not be using linux", because they all have custom per-machine user compile time configured kernels, which is required as part of the installation.
Keep on dreaming. If you were to run a fully unoptimized kernel on a phone you'd drain the battery in less than 2 hours most likely. (Please note: I do not consider compiler conditionals the same code. because you could really just put two complete different versions in there and switch between them with conditional constructs) People seem to forget how big of a deal scheduling and power management is on mobile devices. The battery capacity hasn't increased that much over the past years, the power management on the other hand has made huge steps forward.
the wake-locks and power management for android has been mainlined in Linux proper since 3.4. tweaking compile time options is fucking easy, and doesn't change the fact its the exact same kernel, and exact same code. Combined with above comment, its fairly clear you don't have a damn clue what you're talking about. Perhaps you just pick up buzzwords from read computer news.
You wish.
You've never actually used either ubuntu or mint in the last 5 years. Its painfully obvious. I've gotten total newbs to do it.
You don't have the damnest clue what the fuck are you talking about.
The fact that you think they take a huge interest in what an average person has to say scares me more than the fact that they bother to go over everything they can get their hands on. Also realize some (a.k.a. most) don't live in the US, and we actually think about who we vote on.
implying I'm stalking you because I've taken the time to respond to your arguments thoughtfully and patiently. great analogy, it holds water. You've likewise seem to have equal intrest in this conversation.
Actually I do not like what he has to say, he instantly kills any possibility of cooperation with his behaviour. His "no binary drivers" thing pretty much stops proper hardware support in its tracks.
co-operation with who and what? The only hardware that we really loose are the high performance ATI and nVidia drivers. Everything else can easily be replaced. Guess what, if we start accepting binary blobs and stop pushing manufactures for open drivers, guess what happens to driver quality? It goes down the shitter, because some no name chineese/korean company isn't going to give a shit about "just works" on linux as much as the kernel devs.
Funny you should say that, it took me about 10 minutes to find and download the windows drivers for everything in my latest computer. It took me about 10 hours to get an acceptable performance out of my Intel WiFi chipset on Linux though. And I sort of gave up in the end and use a cable these days
Whats really funny is installing windows where half the devices show up as yellow ?s, and then hunting for drivers. I haven't had a problem with linux wifi in years.(since kernel 2.6.28). I never had to install a driver beyond propertiary ones, and even that is easy.
Yes, because it totally doesn't store the parameters in a series of shell scripts that are executed at boot. *cough*
it doesn't actually. its quite apparent you haven't spent much time really using modern GNU/Linux.
I should point out I stopped reading at "hostile government". Guess what, you determine who's in the government. Its your own damned fault, get your head out of your ass and do something about it in the voting booth next time.
my fault? I vote every time. Anyways, most modern studies conducted by credible(read not think tanks) sources have shown there is little correlation between voting, populist action, and policy, and there is little way to change policy at the voting both. For all intents and purposes we don't live in a democracy, other than the real base observation that they take and count votes, inclusive of many other countries which aren't real democracies.
And this is why we can't have nice things.
We *do* have nice things. If we let in the riff raff, the people who make $500 for in-app purchases, and then get mad about it, we won't have nice things. We don't need the year of the Linux(or GNU) desktop. its counter-intuitive. It will financially incentivise destroying everything good about linux.
If you're vision of Linux, is a closed mess of unfree apps, vendor lock ins, pay-for-premium, spyware, but still has some underlying *NIX support, and mainstream application support, do all of us here a huge favor, and just go buy yourself a mac, and leave us alone.
As far as the GNU/Linux desktop, most of the guts are maintened by Red Hat, Canonical, and a few other companies for the type of people who work on their servers as a day job.(which is me). It suites us fine for what it does.
back in 1985 mabey. the the i386 archecture is livable, and the AMD64 and i686 more so, especially with all the SIMD add on instruction sets.
In the post y2k world, there are many instances where both SPARC and ARM where playing catch up with x86. For example, the i686 added out of order instructions, something it took Sparc 10 years to catch up. ARM is still playing catch up on a 64 bit implementation, and since the late 90s, has been almost soley the domain of embedded computers, and not feasible for minicomputers, or larger scale deployments.
X86 was a poor ISA when the first 8086 chips were made (but good, given hardware capabilities at the time). That was about 40 years ago. MIPS and Sparc (and ARM) are all better than x86.
the 8086-286 where not bad computers, they were simply a class of computer below mips, sparc, alpha, etc... They were not direct competitors, and sold to vastly diffrent markets and pricing on the groups where diffrent by powers of ten. MIPS, Sparc, Alpha, POWER, where considered minicomputers while the 8086 was considered a microcomputer.
The line between mini and microcomputers has been blurred ever since the introduction of the i386, with a few minicomputer capabilities, and additional models contiued to implement more and more minicomputer functionality until the x86 became a low end minicomputer and was able to directly compete with Sparc and Alpha. While not directly as powerful, they were still powers of ten cheaper and more affordable, while only being powers of 2 less powerful. x86 was by far the best when it came to performace per dollar, the critical aspect when it comes to corporate purchasing.
With smartphones, ARM made an upgrade to the same top tier status as intel, and while not quite as powerful, is a strong competitor in the performance per watt, and performance per dollar. A crown that intel stole from the now extinct mini-computers of yesteryear.
Cyberspace(the internet, and all virtual space on interactive computers), there is no sarcity of goods. Companies can only profit by created scarcity to drive demand, and to do that, they need to ban people from doing things for themselves.
This is no diffrent than a pimp accusing your girlfriend of "stealing" his business by providing sex for "free"
If microsoft won't let you do a clean install with the same license key, then its linux mint for the unfornate souls who need it to "just work"
yes actually, but the NSA has been caught doing the last few times in a row, its not ignorant ot make that assumption.
On servers its not uncommon
majority share, trend is going towards linux. All the big companies run linux webservers, exception of netflix for FreeBSD.
On super computers its usually a heavily customized version, you could just as well use BSD as starting point to be honest.
[citation please]
On smartphones it has been so heavily modified that you wouldn't recognize it if you start taking a closer look at it.
nope actually. all the android kernel patches have been mainlined since 3.4. What you mean is that they don't run the GNU userland, but instead their own userland based on BIONIC C lib, and their own custom version of java. I trust you understand the diffrence between kernel and userspace. It becomes more aparant when you run custom roms.
Now if the default worked I'd love to do that, sadly it rarely does.
if you're using ubuntu or mint it does, simply slip the install disk and bam.
I suggest if there is ever an event nearby where he speaks that you talk to him for half a minute, lets see how much of your view of said person is left standing. He's an annoying jerk who lives in the eighties who didn't yet get the memo that not everyone is spying on him or is strictly interested in what he thinks. But lets not get into detail about this one.
I didn't think you got the memo that they are spying on you. I mean we can pretend the snowden leak didn't happen, or be coy about the extent, or the fact that bits and pieces of been leaked for years, many times appearing on slashdot. We can pretend that he hasn't been the victim of a massive character attack against him.
You don't need a person like that to stand up for your principles, if you must find somebody to stand up for them I'd say go for Linus. He might be a jerk, but he's not an obnoxious paranoid unreasonable person.
Guess what, the world is full of jerks. Studies conclude that rude people are more honest. I don't find Stallman paranoid one bit, most of his "paranoia" over the years has been proven justified.
I think the real issue is you simply don't like what he has to say.
I have yet to see evidence of this statement. Every computer I install linux on, I must point out this is on recent hardware and often laptops, I usually end up having to fiddle with the driver settings because some person somewhere decided that having the default settings automatically loaded into configuration files was a bad idea.
my reaction has been just the opposite, drivers for all but the most obscure devices simply load themselves with no interaction. Except the full performance video card drivers. Thats as easy as installing a package and restarting.
Keep in mind the Windows driver figures out these things by itself, mostly because it doesn't have to take into account 50000 different possible locations for said configuration file.
I've always had driver hell on windows. Half the devices don't show on install, god help you if the ethernet driver doesn't work, and you can't find the install disk. Then you get to the 50,000 diffrent versions of the driver, the buggy piece of shit that comes with windows, or is it driver on the manufactures website which is poorly translated from cantoneese, into mandarin, into russian, into english, that took you 3 hours of searching to find because the company either merged, went out of business, or obsoleted the driver.
Also, drivers don't have configuration files in linux, they are kernel modules, most of them come with the kernel and are located in /usr/lib/modules/, and linux/udev simply loads them when it detects them, occationally you need to modprobe them and list them in a plain text file in /etc/modules-load.d
have fun also uninstalling all
Pretty sure they aren't.
oh, well you reminded me of someone else. Someone with the same strawmen, and bad arguments
Anyways, point still stands. I'd rather have people like Stallman than people like you. There are many reasons to be concerned about privacy, and its been proven that closed modules like DRM, and various phone home utilies exist, track users, and many times leave personal data out in the open, or on company servers, where identity theft is one of the fastest growing, hardest to catch crimes there is right now. We have a hostile government that doesn't give a shit, because they use the same methods to spy on is, and it makes it easy.
We don't need people who don't take Freedom, openess, security and saftey seriously. We also don't need people who are quick to make political compromises to fit in with powerful people, at the expense of the general populace.
We don't need "year of the Linux desktop". It does not benefit either GNU or Linux, we simply do not need it. It would be nice sure, but its simply not essential. More important is taking a stand and explaining to the rest of society why we do, rather than what.
god help you if you ask them what security they provide.
First you'll find that the powers you gave them "only to fight terrorism" are being used to drug cases and other petty crime
Next you'll find that drug cases and other petty crime are only against personal enemies, and done with such dubious methods you cannot be sure of their guilt, and their powers aren't being used to find bad guys, but to frame people.
What the three letter soup wants is power to frame people and not have the framing questioned, by framing anyone who questions them.
You see we've been tacitly complicit in giving up our rights to fight "the war on drugs", but instead of stomping out drug use, drug use has soared, and our rights have been abandonded. They have no intention of protecting you from drugs or terrorism, and don't mind the occational terrorist or drug lord from causing a muckety muck to expand their powers.
I've been long done with this "year of the linux desktop", and I don't see why I'd even want such a thing.
The only thing that matters to me is attracting enough developers to Free software to keep it maintained. So like everything else, target audience is key. The person in mainstream society right now does not add anything, and may serve to cause problems, and perhaps even disrupt the ecosystem. The more of them, and less of us, the even less developers are going to care about the tinkerers, geeks, and hackers.
Microsoft is releasing .NET as FOSS, hopefully we can use that to improve mono, and if we can get them to release their APIs (win32/64, DirectX, microsoft office document formats), so we can interact fully with windows users, it would be enough.
I run Linux on all my desktops and laptops. I don't think its an imperative that everyone else do so. In fact, I don't think it will ever happen because people associated the term "Linux" with "Nerd" with "undesirable". No matter how well it runs, or how well its supported, people just won't do it, because they'll be affraid of being labeled as a Linux User. People who run macs do so because they like the notorority of being diffrent, along with a company that purposefully sculps its image to be hipster friendly.
For linux to have a brand makeover, we'd have to let the yuppie brand management PR goons in who will ruin everything, and disrupt the type of communities we have. All for what? A materialist yuppie who'd only believes in ethics and virtue as a conversation piece of impress their friends? Someone who'd do minimum amoung of work, wanting maximum amount of credit? What would they really add?
You hated init scripts ? I loved them. I loved the flexibility and power they gave me. If I wanted my webserver to start later, or I wanted to tweak the way it got started to fit some localized need - I could do that, with no risk of breaking anything else. How exactly would I do this with systemd ? It's opague and hard to figure out and badly documented and I can't pipe the stuff between a thousand disparate commands to construct whatever I need on the fly as and when I need it - those are the REASONS to use Linux (technical reasons).
you could use Before= and After= in the systemd unit files, you can even place overrides in /etc/systemd/system/ instead of modifying the package files in /usr/lib if you so choose:
https://coreos.com/docs/launching-containers/launching/getting-started-with-systemd/
Do you know what, editting what is typically 10 lines of key=value pairs in a config file is a hell of a lot easier and safer than monkying with some bash script.(or dash in debian).
Do you know what else I don't miss, stuck proccesses, when a proccess hangs, and /etc/init.d/proccessname can't do a damn thing about it, and it still leaves its pid file to clean up. speaking of which, the PID file is the only way that the rest of the system knows if the program is running or not. systemctl stop has never failed me. It hits with the power of kill -9 and cleans up the mess. Which is great because if you run a poorly written program with an equally poorly written init script, systemd is better at getting that crap off your system.
Oh yeah, and the fact is your running a shell script to start and stop programs. What could possibly go wrong. Its like having your car held together with duct tape.
but yes, systemd is very configurable, with easy to read configuration files. Configuration files that work key=pair, like everything else.
Then we get to runlevels, instead of an esotetic mess of 123560, we get singleuser, multiuser,reboot, etc...
If you want/need syslog back you can edit /etc/systemd/journald.conf and uncommont FowardToSyslog= and change the value to "yes".
it is, in fact, a very sound way to engineer an operating system
Its a sound way to engineer nothing. Its akin to having many moving parts, and many more points of failure. One of GNU/Linux's greatest weaknesses is that its many moving parts written by diffrent peope.
people weren't this pissed when HAL was depreciated and the functionality taken over by udev. Again, one less moving part. One less point of failure.
Its worse then a "lie", its propaganda, treason, and and a personal assault, done by a subhuman "other", out to destroy everything they hold sacred in life.
Love the parroting of corporate propaganda
except we are talking about a piece of Free software, not a corporate product.
If you hate it so much, use ms-windows.
False dichomoty, its either "Use Windows" or "Use UNIX".
one big super-complex blob
just like the Linux kernel. No, I actuall like GNU, if you like UNIX so much go use solaris or FreeBSD, and leave GNU alone. Oh, and have fun getting driver support with that.
BTW: the UNIX philosophy is not just dogma, it has a practical purpose and has worked very well.
has been dead since 1985
systemd actually fucking works, and those fanboys are satisfied users. All we have is a few haters that are simply mad things didn't work the same way they've always worked.
As far as this "UNIX Philosphy", fuck that shit. Go dig your PDP-7 out of your closet if you want to run UNIX. GNU's Not UNIX, not because its just a silly name, its because Stallman hated fucking UNIX, but only adapted partial UNIX compatibility to drag in a larger user base.(EMACS being essentially a LISP machine that runs ontop of UNIX, Stallman liked LISP machines)
for fucks sake, we've had --plain-text options alongside single -o options since day one. Thats un-unix like.
Do you want to know what was also one heaping mess of fail? debian's initscripts, along with fucking apt. Fucking complicated derpish bullshit. I'm not missing initscripts. no sir.
That said, we are talking about consumer grade setups, and the default of 350hz timer, and pulse works just fine for that.
Doing something that much more hardcore, re-compile the kernel, I do believe debian and ubuntu provide low-latency and realtime kernel along with packaging for related programs, and guides do exist for other distros.
I do believe if you are a highly trained technician, you can be expected to know your tools better than the average consumer who doesn't want to fuck with it. If you're getting paid, its also job security.
I helped developed an alternate init system that is used by some couple of million installations
oh god, there is no alternative that is running on million installations.(no counting legacy inits) Not even OpenRC.
I support code that actually works, and an init system that isn't an old hobbled together mess of bash scripts.
If you really want, you can uninstall Unity, and run xfce, LXDE, or something else lightweight which resembles fairly closely the state of GNU/Linux in 1995 when your Pentium 1 was king.
Actually no, I remember those days. GNU/Linux was fucking ugly as dogshit, Windows was buggy and unreliable, and Macs where worthless. Playing an MP3 File choaked 75% of the cpu on one of those early "media" PCs, about 90% for ogg. You could basicly use IRC, or a terminal session and that was it. Web browsing while listening to mp3s was a no-no.
It wasn't until around the late pentium 2, early pentium 3 era, where you could sorta mutli-task like you do today, and listen to mp3s in the fucking background
As far as pulse goes, I like being able to yak on teamspeak on my USB headset, while rocking out to tunes played over my sound card, and being able to adjust per-proccess audio. Works great in pulse. Setting up native 8 channel speaker support is easy as well. No real special hardware. I agree audio is something we need to do well, and as far as consumer audio goes, pulse knocks it out of the park.
No one is making you use pulse, or even Ubuntu. If you want a minimal desktop run something else. you can run bare ALSA on xfce. It works for basic things, but trying to manage 8 speakers with multiple specialty cards(bluetooth and USB headsets,docking stations), is a fucking pain in the ass.