I RTFA an apparently it's just a bug in the Plugins auto-update. Albeight a WP bug, that has the potential to bring down the entire site and/or expose the sites core. But we're talking about WP, so no big surprise here.
Important rule for WP: Avoid plugins where possible, they're often even worse than legacy WP code itself.
Math is the only subject in which just about anybody can go from absolutely ignorant to genius, at more or less the same pace (Math prodigies aside). That's a simple fact.
Given, that pace may be notably slow and for most it's a torture to deal with things they simply don't understand - *until* they understand them, that is - but it's possible. Boolean Algebra can make you cry if you fail to get a grasp on it. Once you've understood it, it's so trivial as to be just about childish to ponder about it.
A cleaning lady who can't speak one correct sentence can learn serious algebra and get to degree heights. No joke. I've seen it happen. Simlletons with little grasp on life or social interactions can rise to unseen height in math.
I've also seen assistant programming tutors who were total n00bs in progging but about the best in math on campus.
Most other subjects require some sort of skill that needs to be aquired in the environment one lives and grows up in - such as versatility of language. Math is basic, and can be learned by a bum.
Which brings me to my point: I think math is taught wrong most of the time and that perhaps different people need different approaches to the subject.
Example: I remember asking my math professor about a decade ago for a reference on mathematical symbols and explainations of what they mean - which mathematical operation they represent. He looked at me like I was an alien. Every PL has a reference, and how good a PL is, is often measured by that reference. Math? Not so much. Each guy writes math differntly and you have to already understand math to then know what he's actually writing down. Not a good prospect for learning or passing on a field, if you ask me.
For one, I suspect that math as a subject matter would make a huge leap forward if people could come down on one normalised math notation, so one can understand what they are writing about. That alone would improve math teaching and learning by spades. In terms of notation, Math is a subject still stuck in ancient times.
I see your points, but the first thing a WP redo should do is redesign the architecture. It's the classic mess done by people who started developing in the first web-boom and never learned to normalise a DB correctly.
The security problems with WP are somewhat inherent to the LAMP stack and not so much WP. A proper Webapp Server built in some serious PL such as C++ or Go would to the trick, but that would kill the huge advantages of these awesome products cobbled together in PHP.
It's a tradeoff, and for that WP security is actually quite OK.
... you know all that dark matter we've been looking for? That's all the stars already wrapped in dyson spheres by advanced civilisations.... Don't say that couldn't be.
I don't know about you, but with me MS has burned a lot of trust. I mean a ginormous amount. I don't trust MS and I don't trust the judgement of anyone who isn't wary of MS. MS isn't looking as evil as a few years ago, and their surface hardware looks quite neat actually. But there is quite a bit more that has to happen before I trust MS again with running anything mission-critical for me.
I don't know if this is going to help or destroy Xamarin - I'm sorta caught in the middle. Or so I wish.... But glancing over to Nokia, I'm not placing any bets on Xamarin. Companies bought by MS too often die specatularly just a little bit later.
I wish it were different, but the statistics clearly point against Xamarin surviving an akquisition by MS. That's the plain, simple and painful truth.
It's a shame for Xamarin actually - it is a neat x-plattform toolkit and I've used MonoDevelop for some projects. Very cool and quick to set up.
Now WP and PHP are going to get tons of flak, once again.
To put things into perspective: WordPress has north of 100 Million aktive installs. It powers more than a fourth of the entire web. That's orders of magnitude more than any other system on the planet ever has. For that, WP has an excellent security track record with the last new exploit infecting roughly 8000 websites. Once again of that type that weren''t following basic security procedures.
Using WP for a high-profile, high traffic website such as Linux Mint may be questionable due to load issues alone, but it is doable if you follow just the simplest security principles - such as disabling the login page, using non-standard garbled logins, de-coupling login and username and using a non-standard table prefix.
All this is SOP on any non-development WP installation and mitigates 99.999% of the standard attacks on WordPress. That, and not showering your install with tons of plugin-bloat perhaps.
WordPress is a system for quickly cobling together a high functionality website and for that it is excellent. But you have to know your basics about PHP and the LAMP stack, otherwise you have no business setting up a WP intallation and are way better of getting one at wordpress.com or some other apphoster for WP. Which, btw., is a perfectly viable option if you've got your hands full maintaining a Linux distro and couldn't
The Linux Mint people screwed up and prerhaps even compromised some boxes that have yesterdays fake ISOs installed on them. They didn't to their homework in terms of basic web-security and this is not the fault of WP or PHP.
In terms of body count per abrahamic religion christianity is still a few centuries ahead of islam and probably will lead the hitlist for all eternity. Take history into account and even todays extremist islam is no where near the christianity body count. Christianities violent-death toll still is orders of mangitude higher.
But generally speaking, abrahamic religions all together are the worst - genocide is part of their gospel.
... is that iPhones are so expensive and yet so widespread that it acutally is feasible to repair them with stunts that would make no sense at all with just about any other device. Here in Germany we have *Billboard ads* on iPhone Screen repair kits! It's the same effect that opens up an own market for tons of 3rd party iPhone extras.
All in all this actually has somehwat become a reason to buy an iPhone, if you're concerned about the environment or sustainablity of hardware.
I'd like to see Apple losen up a little on this - a solid 3rd party market is good for them in the long run, imho.
Of course a sufficiently intelligent robot has the potential to become a humans friend. That's just about a no-brainer.
My mother loves her dog more than some people love their child. She is devastated whenever the latest "Version" of her Yorkie dies - once every ~20 years - and quickly gets a new one, costs be damned. You should hear her talking to it.
Give a lonely fat nerd a sufficiently intelligent animee-cutie Android and of course he'd fall in love with it and have sex with it too.... Heck, *I* would might even find that tempting even though I'm currently 90% fine with my love-life and the tango-hotties I regularly dance and sometimes do the hookie-pookie with are a strong source of envy to my buddies.
As strange as it is, this does go to show that ICBMs + Nuclear are the equivalent of pulling out a live hand-granade at a meeting. Guaranteed full attention by everyone present.
German officials recently suggested to make all transactions larger than 5000 Euros illegal in cash. It's only a proposal, but definitely some back-room grey-suits machiavellian attempt to introduce the concept of ultimate transaction tracking in the long term. We all know how this goes. With all this and the ever-looming cyberpunk future in close proximity, I'm starting to wonder if it isn't time to get myself familiar with crypto currency as a means of trade. Bitcoin is all the hype, but the blockchain has flaws, in that it isn't as anonymous as one would hope for â" you can track past transactions. Rumors of Bitcoin showing cracks are popping up and also there are quite a few alternatives out there. So I have some questions: Is getting into dealing with crypto currency worthwhile already? Is bitcoin a way to go or will it falter under wide use / become easyly trackable once NSA and the likes adopt their systems to doing exactly that? What digital currency has the technical and mind-share potential to superceed bitcoin? Are there feasible cryptocurrencies that have the upsides of bitcoin (such as a mathematical limit to their amount) but are fully anonymous in transactions? What do the economists and digi-currency nerds here have to contribute on that? What are your experiences with handling and holding cryptocurrency? And does bitcoin own the market or is it still flexible enough for an technology upgrade? May the discussion begin...
Excepting cases of rape and incest, you chose to have sex, deal with it.
What if the partner was lying about contraception?
What if somebody wasn't educated on the consequences of sex?
What if the mother was brought up in an enslavement society that taught her from early childhood that women should to as they are told and spread their legs when told to? (Basically all societies on this planet until a few decades ago)
What if somebody was emotionally coned into getting a child and the abandoned by those just as responsible? (Mostly men abandoning women, except in societies that ensure guys don't chicken out and have more-or-less equal rights)
What if somebody is using a child as an excuse for a free ride and as a vector for irresponsible behaviour?
Aside from that, I'd like to hear from you if it's better to keep the child and have it born into misery and/or abadoned into foster care or rather ensure that someone who doesn't want to have a child or technically can't handle it can abort (up to a medical resonable point that is).
Bottom line: Your reasoning looks so neat and simple, but it has holes so big as to drive a mac truck through them. Ergo: Wrong. You should reconsider your maximes on this.
We're headed deaper into the world of cyberpunk once more with all its hallmarks, including corporate socialism (corporates reap gain, citziens/taxpayers pay loss). TPP is just another step along the way.... I wonder when there will be a counter movement.... Right now everyone get's bored when I try to explain software and algorithm patents to them.Or they simply believe it doesn't exist.
Whatever happens, I want a cyberdeck and Kanedas bike from Akira.... And a tank with a few clones of me so I don't grow old.:-)
I've been a Slashdotter since the 90ies and I still think it's one of the best examples of user-generated and user curated content in existance. The moderation system might be improvable but it is pretty good and does a useful job of filtering rubbish. And its way better than everything else out there.
That been said, slashdot has been thinning out lately, probably mostly due to social networks and such. I think this time is a good time to admit what slashdot is: an online news classic driven by it's community. A global (!!) community of digerati. I would whish for more editors (globally, remote... like automattic, the WordPress company), more curated special articles by professional or semi-professional writers/online-journalist specifically written/made for slashdot and a more global and globalised feel to slashdot. WE are the bridgehead of digital globalisation - it shouldshow in our favorite online medium.
I'm confident that slashdot could become a news-brand in itself and stand the test of time and survive the social media onslaught - slashdot justpart-time improve on the things it's good at and extend on those.
I've written books of content and comments on slashdot - if there were a possibility to write and publish essays and well-produced multimedia blurbs, perhaps with a global part-time virtual editing departement, that would becool and definitely bring slashdot forward and revive it again.
Brave beta is just out. A project from the former CEO of Mozilla. AFAICT out of the box one of the safest and most private browsers around. Definitely a leg up from the usual suspects.
Seriously: I too think there's quite a bit of really bizar non-sense that went down with the Iraq invasion. However, you should keep two things in mind before flinging around the words "totally one-sided":
1.) Between desert storm and the invarion the UN issued 16 (that's sixteen, as in four more than a dozen) *ultimate* resolutions against Iraq and the Saddam Hussein regime. You know, ULTIMATE, as in FINAL, like "THE LAST ONE".... Rumsfeld might be a neocon butthole, but I can't blame him for making fun of the UN and asking for concrete action back then.
2.) Iraq had proven beyond any doubt that it posessed WMDs (see link above). You can't argue against that.... That the predictions were inflated and basically a lie, given. But WMDs Iraq had actively used before - no doubt about that.
I ran into this UEFI crap about half a year back, when I had to adjust some BIOS settings and couldn't, because I didn't have windows installed. I couldn't believe it. RMSes worst nightmares come true, today. Un-fucking-believable.
UEFI is just another machiavellian attempt at controlling our hardware from start to finish. It's basically the old TCPA bullshit repackaged. How the fuck anyone could install let alone design and build a BIOS whos UI is depedant on what OS is installed on the HDD is totally beyond me. I honestly am of the opinion that those who designed this freakin' insane UEFI BIOS crap and peddle it should be brought before court for malicious malpractice and willfully undermining computer security.
UEFI in my book is definitely a reason not to buy the hardware using it.
BTW: How come no one get's worked up about that? Everyone is pissing their pants about systemd, but UEFI doesn't get half as much bad press. I remember the TCPA uproar - that was a good one. How about now?
Yepp, Some package managers are on crack too often.
Debian Stable removes the network stack by default if you uninstall the Gnome GUI. Fucked up my day when I was doing a server-install and just wanted to ditch the GUI as a last move. Since then I always leave the GUI installed - even though that's actually pretty retarded for a Linux Server Host.... But that's Debian for you.
We're already seeing the system buckle and fail. Greece crashed, Germany, France, Sweden, etc are cracking under the migrant issue to say nothing for a turning economy.
Except that these nations are actually benefiting from the influx of refugees. This is because of subsidation by the state in short term, of course, but will support itself as soon as the refugees start working and contributing to society. We're seeing these effects in Germany already. If I were King of Germany, I'd ask for more refugees (~3 Million should be the sweet spot) and send boats to the mediteranian to pick up the missing wives and children. Add in a woman/man quota, ditch the convoluted asylum rules, boot criminals back to syria, algeria, whatnot ASAP. Teach them German, secularisation, the German constitution and send the criminals back pronto, with drumskin trials if the need be. Send out the message that the gloves have come off. Bingo. In three years you've lowered the age average by a decade and economic thoughput is through the roof. If handled correctly, the current refugee influx into Germany could be a god-send.
Eurozone is strainging at the seams, but that's not due to free money for the poor. It's because of dispersed fiscal policy. You can't have that under a unfified currency. Eurozone needs to become a true federation if it is to survive in its current form. Free market movements have little to do with that. All the Eurozone nations in trouble are knee-deep in troubles caused by bad fiscal discipline and banking one eurozone rescue money. Clean up that mess and you can have your Eurocake and eat it too. Don't and the pain will continue. It's that simple.
This would first require ending of right to free movement (otherwise whole Eastern Europe would move to countries with ubs) and then really dealing with immigration to prevent whole Africa from moving to Europe. In other words: no way.
Wrong. For at least to reasons:
Right now, lots of people move within the eurozone (taking advantage of the freedom to move inside the EU privilege) *because* they expect better income somewhere else. If all get the same default CBI (Conditionless Basic Income), then there is no reason for a spanish guy to move to cold Germany, where he has no social connections just to get a Job. Meanwhile, a German citizen who receives a default european CBI whereever he goes has no reason to stay in rural Germany and do the silly unemployment-support form-filling and burocracy dance every quarter (costing German taxpayers billons for the paperwork alone) if he can't get a job there - he can just more somewhere else where its warmer and he has a better chance of trying his luck.
The fundamental problem with the Eurozone is not that we've got to much of it, the problem is that it is implemented wrong. You know, like managers designing software (*shudder*). We've got a forced currency union without the correct unified fiscal mechanisms and social reforms to match. That's a recipe for failure (Portugal, Italy, Spain, Greece... anyone?). That's why the Greece problem was/is such a mess. Arm-thick extra contracts that no one reads let alone follows and a eurozone straining at the seams. This will need to be fixed ASAP, one way or the other. Or else Eurozone with burst appart.
Fixing this involves a unified social policy and the easyest way doing that is flattening all wealth transfer into a single CBI across the Eurozone. That's exactly what Saxo Bank expects to happen.... It would be the best solution and solve quite a few problems in one move, including the tough ones like the Greek people hurting badly after nearly 4 decades of socialist miss-management and defacto national bankruptcy.... But if you ask me right now I think they're being really optimistic. I'm cautiously hopeful that Eurozone does the turn-around and am totally with the Saxobank analysts on this one, but I'm not holding my breath just yet. Politicians can be quite stupid and right now nationalists and far-right are popping up all over the place left, right and center. I hope it's just a fad, but who knows. The dimwits might just take over again.
As for asylum seekers and imigrants: What does that have to do with CBI??? They don't get that. It would only be for EU citizens. The fugitive crisis has just about zilch to do with the CBI issue.
With a girlfriend like that it surely makes exile easyer to bear.... Gosh is she cute and sexy. That video has me breathing shallower. And envying the man... for his girlfriend that is.... He deserves her. I hope the f*cks his brains out regularly and gives him a good time. He deserves it.
Give me an effing break! This is not even funny anymore.
How about building in a compiler stack into Emacs, some neat or something usefull if there's nothing more to do on Emacs? How about building a search function with useful defaults for the options tree or improving its integrated documentation? Integrated GTK toys - WTF? One of the huge advantages of emacs is that it runs in the CLI. The GTK Version should get CUAS support and a bar with some buttons at the top (collapsible) and that's just about all Emacs needs in terms of grafical GUI integration. AFAICT it had that allready.
As an Emacs User I see no point whatsoever in this. They should focus on other things IMHO.
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I RTFA an apparently it's just a bug in the Plugins auto-update. Albeight a WP bug, that has the potential to bring down the entire site and/or expose the sites core. But we're talking about WP, so no big surprise here.
Important rule for WP: Avoid plugins where possible, they're often even worse than legacy WP code itself.
Math is the only subject in which just about anybody can go from absolutely ignorant to genius, at more or less the same pace (Math prodigies aside). That's a simple fact.
Given, that pace may be notably slow and for most it's a torture to deal with things they simply don't understand - *until* they understand them, that is - but it's possible. Boolean Algebra can make you cry if you fail to get a grasp on it. Once you've understood it, it's so trivial as to be just about childish to ponder about it.
A cleaning lady who can't speak one correct sentence can learn serious algebra and get to degree heights. No joke. I've seen it happen. Simlletons with little grasp on life or social interactions can rise to unseen height in math.
I've also seen assistant programming tutors who were total n00bs in progging but about the best in math on campus.
Most other subjects require some sort of skill that needs to be aquired in the environment one lives and grows up in - such as versatility of language. Math is basic, and can be learned by a bum.
Which brings me to my point:
I think math is taught wrong most of the time and that perhaps different people need different approaches to the subject.
Example: I remember asking my math professor about a decade ago for a reference on mathematical symbols and explainations of what they mean - which mathematical operation they represent. He looked at me like I was an alien. Every PL has a reference, and how good a PL is, is often measured by that reference. Math? Not so much. Each guy writes math differntly and you have to already understand math to then know what he's actually writing down. Not a good prospect for learning or passing on a field, if you ask me.
For one, I suspect that math as a subject matter would make a huge leap forward if people could come down on one normalised math notation, so one can understand what they are writing about. That alone would improve math teaching and learning by spades. In terms of notation, Math is a subject still stuck in ancient times.
Sounds like something straight from a William Gibson or Neal Stephenson novel. Crafty little beggars, you have to give them that.
I see your points, but the first thing a WP redo should do is redesign the architecture. It's the classic mess done by people who started developing in the first web-boom and never learned to normalise a DB correctly.
The security problems with WP are somewhat inherent to the LAMP stack and not so much WP. A proper Webapp Server built in some serious PL such as C++ or Go would to the trick, but that would kill the huge advantages of these awesome products cobbled together in PHP.
It's a tradeoff, and for that WP security is actually quite OK.
... you know all that dark matter we've been looking for? ...
That's all the stars already wrapped in dyson spheres by advanced civilisations.
Don't say that couldn't be.
I don't know about you, but with me MS has burned a lot of trust. I mean a ginormous amount. I don't trust MS and I don't trust the judgement of anyone who isn't wary of MS. MS isn't looking as evil as a few years ago, and their surface hardware looks quite neat actually. But there is quite a bit more that has to happen before I trust MS again with running anything mission-critical for me.
I don't know if this is going to help or destroy Xamarin - I'm sorta caught in the middle. Or so I wish. ... But glancing over to Nokia, I'm not placing any bets on Xamarin. Companies bought by MS too often die specatularly just a little bit later.
I wish it were different, but the statistics clearly point against Xamarin surviving an akquisition by MS. That's the plain, simple and painful truth.
It's a shame for Xamarin actually - it is a neat x-plattform toolkit and I've used MonoDevelop for some projects. Very cool and quick to set up.
Now WP and PHP are going to get tons of flak, once again.
To put things into perspective: WordPress has north of 100 Million aktive installs. It powers more than a fourth of the entire web. That's orders of magnitude more than any other system on the planet ever has. For that, WP has an excellent security track record with the last new exploit infecting roughly 8000 websites. Once again of that type that weren''t following basic security procedures.
Using WP for a high-profile, high traffic website such as Linux Mint may be questionable due to load issues alone, but it is doable if you follow just the simplest security principles - such as disabling the login page, using non-standard garbled logins, de-coupling login and username and using a non-standard table prefix.
All this is SOP on any non-development WP installation and mitigates 99.999% of the standard attacks on WordPress. That, and not showering your install with tons of plugin-bloat perhaps.
WordPress is a system for quickly cobling together a high functionality website and for that it is excellent. But you have to know your basics about PHP and the LAMP stack, otherwise you have no business setting up a WP intallation and are way better of getting one at wordpress.com or some other apphoster for WP. Which, btw., is a perfectly viable option if you've got your hands full maintaining a Linux distro and couldn't
The Linux Mint people screwed up and prerhaps even compromised some boxes that have yesterdays fake ISOs installed on them. They didn't to their homework in terms of basic web-security and this is not the fault of WP or PHP.
I hope they learn their lesson.
In terms of body count per abrahamic religion christianity is still a few centuries ahead of islam and probably will lead the hitlist for all eternity. Take history into account and even todays extremist islam is no where near the christianity body count. Christianities violent-death toll still is orders of mangitude higher. But generally speaking, abrahamic religions all together are the worst - genocide is part of their gospel.
... is that iPhones are so expensive and yet so widespread that it acutally is feasible to repair them with stunts that would make no sense at all with just about any other device. Here in Germany we have *Billboard ads* on iPhone Screen repair kits!
It's the same effect that opens up an own market for tons of 3rd party iPhone extras.
All in all this actually has somehwat become a reason to buy an iPhone, if you're concerned about the environment or sustainablity of hardware.
I'd like to see Apple losen up a little on this - a solid 3rd party market is good for them in the long run, imho.
Why wouldn't BB-8 become a lonely persons friend?
Of course a sufficiently intelligent robot has the potential to become a humans friend. That's just about a no-brainer.
My mother loves her dog more than some people love their child. She is devastated whenever the latest "Version" of her Yorkie dies - once every ~20 years - and quickly gets a new one, costs be damned. You should hear her talking to it.
Give a lonely fat nerd a sufficiently intelligent animee-cutie Android and of course he'd fall in love with it and have sex with it too. ... Heck, *I* would might even find that tempting even though I'm currently 90% fine with my love-life and the tango-hotties I regularly dance and sometimes do the hookie-pookie with are a strong source of envy to my buddies.
As strange as it is, this does go to show that ICBMs + Nuclear are the equivalent of pulling out a live hand-granade at a meeting.
Guaranteed full attention by everyone present.
There are people who say that the Ukraines biggest mistake was giving up their ICBMs. ... As tough as it is to admit, I think there's some truth in there some where.
German officials recently suggested to make all transactions larger than 5000 Euros illegal in cash. It's only a proposal, but definitely some back-room grey-suits machiavellian attempt to introduce the concept of ultimate transaction tracking in the long term. We all know how this goes. With all this and the ever-looming cyberpunk future in close proximity, I'm starting to wonder if it isn't time to get myself familiar with crypto currency as a means of trade. ...
Bitcoin is all the hype, but the blockchain has flaws, in that it isn't as anonymous as one would hope for â" you can track past transactions. Rumors of Bitcoin showing cracks are popping up and also there are quite a few alternatives out there. So I have some questions: Is getting into dealing with crypto currency worthwhile already? Is bitcoin a way to go or will it falter under wide use / become easyly trackable once NSA and the likes adopt their systems to doing exactly that?
What digital currency has the technical and mind-share potential to superceed bitcoin? Are there feasible cryptocurrencies that have the upsides of bitcoin (such as a mathematical limit to their amount) but are fully anonymous in transactions? What do the economists and digi-currency nerds here have to contribute on that? What are your experiences with handling and holding cryptocurrency? And does bitcoin own the market or is it still flexible enough for an technology upgrade? May the discussion begin
Excepting cases of rape and incest, you chose to have sex, deal with it.
What if the partner was lying about contraception?
What if somebody wasn't educated on the consequences of sex?
What if the mother was brought up in an enslavement society that taught her from early childhood that women should to as they are told and spread their legs when told to? (Basically all societies on this planet until a few decades ago)
What if somebody was emotionally coned into getting a child and the abandoned by those just as responsible? (Mostly men abandoning women, except in societies that ensure guys don't chicken out and have more-or-less equal rights)
What if somebody is using a child as an excuse for a free ride and as a vector for irresponsible behaviour?
Aside from that, I'd like to hear from you if it's better to keep the child and have it born into misery and/or abadoned into foster care or rather ensure that someone who doesn't want to have a child or technically can't handle it can abort (up to a medical resonable point that is).
Bottom line: Your reasoning looks so neat and simple, but it has holes so big as to drive a mac truck through them. Ergo: Wrong. You should reconsider your maximes on this.
We're headed deaper into the world of cyberpunk once more with all its hallmarks, including corporate socialism (corporates reap gain, citziens/taxpayers pay loss). TPP is just another step along the way. ... I wonder when there will be a counter movement. ... Right now everyone get's bored when I try to explain software and algorithm patents to them.Or they simply believe it doesn't exist.
Whatever happens, I want a cyberdeck and Kanedas bike from Akira. ... And a tank with a few clones of me so I don't grow old. :-)
Sorry for the crappy formating. Posted on my tablet, and autocorrect was fuckung things up.
I've been a Slashdotter since the 90ies and I still think it's one of the best examples of user-generated and user curated content in existance. The moderation system might be improvable but it is pretty good and does a useful job of filtering rubbish. And its way better than everything else out there.
That been said, slashdot has been thinning out lately, probably mostly due to social networks and such. I think this time is a good time to admit what slashdot is: an online news classic driven by it's community. A global (!!) community of digerati. I would whish for more editors (globally, remote ... like automattic, the WordPress company), more curated special articles by professional or semi-professional writers/online-journalist specifically written/made for slashdot and a more global and globalised feel to slashdot. WE are the bridgehead of digital globalisation - it shouldshow in our favorite online medium.
I'm confident that slashdot could become a news-brand in itself and stand the test of time and survive the social media onslaught - slashdot justpart-time improve on the things it's good at and extend on those.
I've written books of content and comments on slashdot - if there were a possibility to write and publish essays and well-produced multimedia blurbs, perhaps with a global part-time virtual editing departement, that would becool and definitely bring slashdot forward and revive it again.
My 2 cents.
Brave beta is just out. A project from the former CEO of Mozilla.
AFAICT out of the box one of the safest and most private browsers around.
Definitely a leg up from the usual suspects.
Yeah, this remind me of Saddam Hussein's weapon of mass destruction we are still searching. Complete paranoia, and totally one sided.
Oh, look, found them!
Glad I could help.
Seriously:
I too think there's quite a bit of really bizar non-sense that went down with the Iraq invasion.
However, you should keep two things in mind before flinging around the words "totally one-sided":
1.) Between desert storm and the invarion the UN issued 16 (that's sixteen, as in four more than a dozen) *ultimate* resolutions against Iraq and the Saddam Hussein regime. You know, ULTIMATE, as in FINAL, like "THE LAST ONE". ... Rumsfeld might be a neocon butthole, but I can't blame him for making fun of the UN and asking for concrete action back then.
2.) Iraq had proven beyond any doubt that it posessed WMDs (see link above). You can't argue against that. ... That the predictions were inflated and basically a lie, given. But WMDs Iraq had actively used before - no doubt about that.
I ran into this UEFI crap about half a year back, when I had to adjust some BIOS settings and couldn't, because I didn't have windows installed. I couldn't believe it. RMSes worst nightmares come true, today. Un-fucking-believable.
UEFI is just another machiavellian attempt at controlling our hardware from start to finish. It's basically the old TCPA bullshit repackaged. How the fuck anyone could install let alone design and build a BIOS whos UI is depedant on what OS is installed on the HDD is totally beyond me. I honestly am of the opinion that those who designed this freakin' insane UEFI BIOS crap and peddle it should be brought before court for malicious malpractice and willfully undermining computer security.
UEFI in my book is definitely a reason not to buy the hardware using it.
BTW: How come no one get's worked up about that? Everyone is pissing their pants about systemd, but UEFI doesn't get half as much bad press. I remember the TCPA uproar - that was a good one. How about now?
Yepp, Some package managers are on crack too often.
Debian Stable removes the network stack by default if you uninstall the Gnome GUI. Fucked up my day when I was doing a server-install and just wanted to ditch the GUI as a last move. Since then I always leave the GUI installed - even though that's actually pretty retarded for a Linux Server Host. ... But that's Debian for you.
That was a pun on Fishertechnik pieces. ... But I guess it *is* a bit to far off. :-)
We're already seeing the system buckle and fail. Greece crashed, Germany, France, Sweden, etc are cracking under the migrant issue to say nothing for a turning economy.
Except that these nations are actually benefiting from the influx of refugees. This is because of subsidation by the state in short term, of course, but will support itself as soon as the refugees start working and contributing to society. We're seeing these effects in Germany already. If I were King of Germany, I'd ask for more refugees (~3 Million should be the sweet spot) and send boats to the mediteranian to pick up the missing wives and children. Add in a woman/man quota, ditch the convoluted asylum rules, boot criminals back to syria, algeria, whatnot ASAP. Teach them German, secularisation, the German constitution and send the criminals back pronto, with drumskin trials if the need be. Send out the message that the gloves have come off. Bingo. In three years you've lowered the age average by a decade and economic thoughput is through the roof. If handled correctly, the current refugee influx into Germany could be a god-send.
Eurozone is strainging at the seams, but that's not due to free money for the poor. It's because of dispersed fiscal policy. You can't have that under a unfified currency. Eurozone needs to become a true federation if it is to survive in its current form. Free market movements have little to do with that. All the Eurozone nations in trouble are knee-deep in troubles caused by bad fiscal discipline and banking one eurozone rescue money. Clean up that mess and you can have your Eurocake and eat it too. Don't and the pain will continue. It's that simple.
This would first require ending of right to free movement (otherwise whole Eastern Europe would move to countries with ubs) and then really dealing with immigration to prevent whole Africa from moving to Europe. In other words: no way.
Wrong.
For at least to reasons:
Right now, lots of people move within the eurozone (taking advantage of the freedom to move inside the EU privilege) *because* they expect better income somewhere else. If all get the same default CBI (Conditionless Basic Income), then there is no reason for a spanish guy to move to cold Germany, where he has no social connections just to get a Job. Meanwhile, a German citizen who receives a default european CBI whereever he goes has no reason to stay in rural Germany and do the silly unemployment-support form-filling and burocracy dance every quarter (costing German taxpayers billons for the paperwork alone) if he can't get a job there - he can just more somewhere else where its warmer and he has a better chance of trying his luck.
The fundamental problem with the Eurozone is not that we've got to much of it, the problem is that it is implemented wrong. You know, like managers designing software (*shudder*). We've got a forced currency union without the correct unified fiscal mechanisms and social reforms to match. That's a recipe for failure (Portugal, Italy, Spain, Greece ... anyone?). That's why the Greece problem was/is such a mess. Arm-thick extra contracts that no one reads let alone follows and a eurozone straining at the seams. This will need to be fixed ASAP, one way or the other. Or else Eurozone with burst appart.
Fixing this involves a unified social policy and the easyest way doing that is flattening all wealth transfer into a single CBI across the Eurozone. That's exactly what Saxo Bank expects to happen. ... It would be the best solution and solve quite a few problems in one move, including the tough ones like the Greek people hurting badly after nearly 4 decades of socialist miss-management and defacto national bankruptcy. ... But if you ask me right now I think they're being really optimistic. I'm cautiously hopeful that Eurozone does the turn-around and am totally with the Saxobank analysts on this one, but I'm not holding my breath just yet. Politicians can be quite stupid and right now nationalists and far-right are popping up all over the place left, right and center. I hope it's just a fad, but who knows. The dimwits might just take over again.
As for asylum seekers and imigrants:
What does that have to do with CBI??? They don't get that. It would only be for EU citizens. The fugitive crisis has just about zilch to do with the CBI issue.
With a girlfriend like that it surely makes exile easyer to bear. ... Gosh is she cute and sexy. That video has me breathing shallower. And envying the man ... for his girlfriend that is. ... He deserves her. I hope the f*cks his brains out regularly and gives him a good time. He deserves it.
Give me an effing break! This is not even funny anymore.
How about building in a compiler stack into Emacs, some neat or something usefull if there's nothing more to do on Emacs?
How about building a search function with useful defaults for the options tree or improving its integrated documentation?
Integrated GTK toys - WTF?
One of the huge advantages of emacs is that it runs in the CLI. The GTK Version should get CUAS support and a bar with some buttons at the top (collapsible) and that's just about all Emacs needs in terms of grafical GUI integration. AFAICT it had that allready.
As an Emacs User I see no point whatsoever in this. They should focus on other things IMHO.