So millions of 'not zealots' discovered the hard way how much they hated Unity on the desktop and Canonical missed the most important opportunity (in 10 years) for Linux on the desktop by rolling out an entirely new desktop paradigm at exactly the same time as Windows Hate was being forcefed to consumers. Windows is now backtracking, Canonical is slogging ahead. "We can do it! If we test it enough, we'll get it right!".
Nobody except zealots cares what's running on their phone, they care that it works. So the only people who will bother flashing their phones across to another OS (apart from whatever it came with) are people who tinker with their toys. Some of those tinkerers are tinkering with Android and now (at some un-named time in the future) some of those tinkerers will start to tinker with Ubuntu. And some (unknown) time after that, Ubuntu might actually manage to get a handset onto the market with a stable, working, feature filled operating system on it. And until that time, the Ubuntu developers are playing catch up trying to keep up with the likes of Google (for those not in the know, Google has multitudes of business units and huge influence on the interwebs) and Apple (apparently recently judged only the second richest corporation in the world).
Call me pessimistic, but does it even matter anymore what the Ubuntu developers are doing? Does a Ubuntu mobile phone have any future, and for that matter, does Ubuntu Linux or Canonical?
It was a community website. Okay, so the corporation doesn't have any interest in it, why not give it back to the community?
It seems senseless to shut it down and just 'disappear' it entirely from the interwebs. Why not give the data and the domain to the original site creator and leave him to it? The response of corporations to either:
A. Own it
B. Grind it into the dust
Is destroying the very environment in which corporations flourish. Chew up the competitors, spit them out then buy up anything new which is created in their wake. Most corporations are like big dumb 5 year olds, take what they want with no respect for anyone else and if they don't like it, drop it.. never admit their mistake and never look back.
At under $250 for a 256 Gig SSD, why would anyone buy a combination drive anymore? This would be like GM announcing that their next flagship green vehicle is powered by 150 horses.
There's an 18 year old kid calling himself 'Cammy' being tried for a 20 year sentence for posting a homemade youtube rap video? Here's hoping nobody named 'Mickey', 'Daffy' or 'Pluto' ever does the same thing or Americans might realize how ridiculous their country has become.
You are corrupt, dangerous, and seek to undermine our democratic way of life. You hide in the shadows and see conspiracies everywhere, and are convinced of your own righteous cause. You are as dangerous as a religious fundamentalist
And??
You write like you didn't expect this to be reality. The US government is run by religious fundamentalists. Moreoever, they're the kind of religious fundamentalist that incite fear and discord at every turn. Problem is.. they're being driven by their own fear. They're literally afraid of themselves and you're simply a reflection of what they fear so they project their fear onto you.
Being the world's most powerful nation isn't enough. Monitoring all domestic communications won't be enough. These people whom aim to stand above you and control your very ideas and beliefs won't stop until they're 'safe'. Since they really are already as safe as possible, that means that they won't stop until they've managed to overcome their fears. Since they're not learning to overcome their fears, this just isn't going to happen.
If you want a change, make it in yourself. Quit being afraid of the fools and step into your own beliefs, your own reality. Quit encrypting your data, quit pushing your friends and family into fear by trying to encrypt their data. Yes, the government monitors my actions including my internets and phone calls. That has a very minor impact on my life. But I've got nothing to be afraid of so I don't behave like somebody whose afraid.. by monitoring my communications, the government may even have the opportunity to learn from me. Fear is rapidly losing any impact in my life, how about you?
Isn't the government supposed to be in service to the citizens? And here are the citizens getting organised and generating their own funding in order to defend themselves from the government. That's the same government which is 'elected' by the citizens. You know things are outrageously out of hand when citizens are funding the generation of defensive mechanisms to protect themselves from the military industrial complex of their government.
Isn't it about time for honest Americans to stand up and say "I don't care how hungry my children are or how much I like playing with guns / flying drones or how good an education I get, I'm simply not going to fight to support a corrupt regime". After all, just about everyone in society knows the difference between right and wrong. Call me naive, but how can somebody put themselves in a position where they disregard their own morality? There's not enough benefits in any job to exercise a job description which involves attacking civilians. And make no bones about it, you aren't just "following orders".
Quit trying to defend yourselves against a complex which is expecting and anticipating that you'll fight back. Start taking your own action to disempower the complex, it simply wouldn't work without the support of the citizenry. Convince yourself, convince your neighbours and then convince your 'leaders'. Isn't it about time?
This is Microsoft research. They do come up with cool things, the cool things just never make it to market. And needless to say, Microsoft developing the product for their own platform will result in a middling device.
Cool? Definitely. Improve the gaming experience? More than likely. Reality? Not even remotely close.
Game studios are going broke left right and centre. Games publishers are falling out of their trees and the ideal solution? Electro shock therapy for gamers?
This is perhaps the worst idea ever. Force feedback controllers were never really popular and this is just an extension of that bad idea.
It appears to take a conservative approach in its demand for data breaches to be reported, with only classifications of serious data breaches considered
Australian privacy regulations are a total joke. The privacy commissioner is a bureaucrat with no power. Businesses take, steal, trade, share, sell and harvest personal details willy nilly and there's no oversight or punishment whatsoever. How do they accomplish this? They set up shell companies which they use to harvest, trade and purchase personal data then shut down the companies after they've 'purchased' the data from them. "No Mr privacy commissioner, it wasn't us. It was company ABC which unfortunately.. is now a defunct corporation so there's no way to know how they got those private details. But before they closed up business in the floor below us, they assured us that everything was perfectly legal. Honest to goodness sir, there's simply nothing we can do!"
Privacy isn't even a remotely important priority. Anything that's raised as a bill is going to be full of loopholes like swiss cheese, because the political representatives in Australia include people with (how shall I put this gently).. 'ties' to large marketing companies. Banks track purchases for the police (with no oversite or warrant), personal details are sold straight out of ATO records, supermarkets track every single purchase a person makes throughout their lives trading this to whomever they consider a 'business partner' and the consumer (if they manage to discover a company has their details) doesn't even have the right to have those details removed from the company's database.
BTW.. the content in this post is not assumption or guess work, I've personally experienced everything listed here.
At what point in history did the commercial software to run a PC start costing 3-5 times the cost of the physical PC?
And just at the right point.. where the software is too expensive, the interface is busted and the stability is screwed.. Ubuntu launched Unity! That shit is seriously going to take over the world man. Every man and his dog is going to be using a tablet with Unity on it! And telephones too, there's nothing more satisfying than taking a swipe at your telephone.. trust me, I've seen the shiny videos with "it's so pretty" reviews on cnet!
But in all seriousness, what sort of desktop distro could a western government safely choose now? It's almost 2 choices:
1/ Roll your own
2/ Use Redhat
Choice 1 is okay for smaller governments, but choice 2 is the only realistic option for larger governments.
There's one problem with your analogy, people want to eat hamburgers. People don't want to drive to work.
Privatising the roads with costs being handed on to drivers isn't a solution. Inner city housing is more expensive than housing out of the city, so the people who can't afford to pay for the use of the roads are the ones who get forced to pay for the use of the roads. The real problem is that people like Elon Musk stupidly put their offices in locations which require staff to live in the inner city or travel to the inner city. He sticks his office in a location then complains that he has to commute to it?? Most of us don't have the luxury of deciding where our office will be but this guy actually decided that he wanted to commute on this route to his office and is now complaining to the government about his decision.
It's true that a public roads contractor will swallow whatever money you give them. The solution is public private tendering. The government tenders a job at a fixed price for a set outcome, then contracts the job out to the winner. If they don't come up with results, they're in breach of contract. Putting a price on the cost of travelling on a road simply disguises the problem of congestion.
The long term solution is to have more tele-commuters and greater spatial distribution of workplaces. Increases in tele-commuting are going to happen naturally over time as businesses clue into the cost savings of reduced office space, electricity, air conditioning and other infrastructure. Improvements in communications infrastructure will also allow for a more seamless home-work environment experience. Along with that, you can pay tele-commuters less to work because the vast majority of people would prefer to work from home rather than travel to an office. Combining this with adequate public transport is more than enough to not require anywhere near the breadth of roads that are currently required. "People should pay to use roads!" doesn't solve a damned thing. It's a right wing call for more extreme private control.
Try creating a private road system, and wait to see what happens. Companies will only upgrade the roads when people stop using them, because this is the only motivation a corporation has, to keep making money. Roads absolutely must remain a public trust. Anything else is sticking your head in a bucket of sand.
If he was working in Australian IT, especially for the government, he was probably so bored to death by his job that he needed an outlet.
These poor IT 'professionals' should be nurtured, not punished. Have sympathy for their pain. Finding bugs in 10 year old spaghetti code will do anybody's head in.
Slashdot Mirror
Why in all that is holy would I put something like this on my expensive phone that I rely on for my income?
"Man with perfectly valid & rational question gets modded troll on /. More groundbreaking news at 10"
Seems like it would be better to report results rather than intentions
Being overly excited leads to premature enunciation.
So millions of 'not zealots' discovered the hard way how much they hated Unity on the desktop and Canonical missed the most important opportunity (in 10 years) for Linux on the desktop by rolling out an entirely new desktop paradigm at exactly the same time as Windows Hate was being forcefed to consumers. Windows is now backtracking, Canonical is slogging ahead. "We can do it! If we test it enough, we'll get it right!".
Nobody except zealots cares what's running on their phone, they care that it works. So the only people who will bother flashing their phones across to another OS (apart from whatever it came with) are people who tinker with their toys. Some of those tinkerers are tinkering with Android and now (at some un-named time in the future) some of those tinkerers will start to tinker with Ubuntu. And some (unknown) time after that, Ubuntu might actually manage to get a handset onto the market with a stable, working, feature filled operating system on it. And until that time, the Ubuntu developers are playing catch up trying to keep up with the likes of Google (for those not in the know, Google has multitudes of business units and huge influence on the interwebs) and Apple (apparently recently judged only the second richest corporation in the world).
Call me pessimistic, but does it even matter anymore what the Ubuntu developers are doing? Does a Ubuntu mobile phone have any future, and for that matter, does Ubuntu Linux or Canonical?
It was a community website. Okay, so the corporation doesn't have any interest in it, why not give it back to the community?
.. never admit their mistake and never look back.
It seems senseless to shut it down and just 'disappear' it entirely from the interwebs. Why not give the data and the domain to the original site creator and leave him to it? The response of corporations to either:
A. Own it
B. Grind it into the dust
Is destroying the very environment in which corporations flourish. Chew up the competitors, spit them out then buy up anything new which is created in their wake. Most corporations are like big dumb 5 year olds, take what they want with no respect for anyone else and if they don't like it, drop it
Fucken retards
If there's swearing in the bible, it might be worth a read.
So does this mean I need to remove sshd?
I got an e-mail in my spam folder last week so I pulled all the hard disks.
Unlike you other lameoids, my server aints gettin hacked.
At under $250 for a 256 Gig SSD, why would anyone buy a combination drive anymore? This would be like GM announcing that their next flagship green vehicle is powered by 150 horses.
.. McNeil Consumer Health Care, owners of the Tylenol brand.
There's an 18 year old kid calling himself 'Cammy' being tried for a 20 year sentence for posting a homemade youtube rap video? Here's hoping nobody named 'Mickey', 'Daffy' or 'Pluto' ever does the same thing or Americans might realize how ridiculous their country has become.
You are corrupt, dangerous, and seek to undermine our democratic way of life. You hide in the shadows and see conspiracies everywhere, and are convinced of your own righteous cause. You are as dangerous as a religious fundamentalist
And??
.. they're being driven by their own fear. They're literally afraid of themselves and you're simply a reflection of what they fear so they project their fear onto you.
.. by monitoring my communications, the government may even have the opportunity to learn from me. Fear is rapidly losing any impact in my life, how about you?
You write like you didn't expect this to be reality. The US government is run by religious fundamentalists. Moreoever, they're the kind of religious fundamentalist that incite fear and discord at every turn. Problem is
Being the world's most powerful nation isn't enough. Monitoring all domestic communications won't be enough. These people whom aim to stand above you and control your very ideas and beliefs won't stop until they're 'safe'. Since they really are already as safe as possible, that means that they won't stop until they've managed to overcome their fears. Since they're not learning to overcome their fears, this just isn't going to happen.
If you want a change, make it in yourself. Quit being afraid of the fools and step into your own beliefs, your own reality. Quit encrypting your data, quit pushing your friends and family into fear by trying to encrypt their data. Yes, the government monitors my actions including my internets and phone calls. That has a very minor impact on my life. But I've got nothing to be afraid of so I don't behave like somebody whose afraid
Take the red pill.
Isn't the government supposed to be in service to the citizens? And here are the citizens getting organised and generating their own funding in order to defend themselves from the government. That's the same government which is 'elected' by the citizens. You know things are outrageously out of hand when citizens are funding the generation of defensive mechanisms to protect themselves from the military industrial complex of their government.
Isn't it about time for honest Americans to stand up and say "I don't care how hungry my children are or how much I like playing with guns / flying drones or how good an education I get, I'm simply not going to fight to support a corrupt regime". After all, just about everyone in society knows the difference between right and wrong. Call me naive, but how can somebody put themselves in a position where they disregard their own morality? There's not enough benefits in any job to exercise a job description which involves attacking civilians. And make no bones about it, you aren't just "following orders".
Quit trying to defend yourselves against a complex which is expecting and anticipating that you'll fight back. Start taking your own action to disempower the complex, it simply wouldn't work without the support of the citizenry. Convince yourself, convince your neighbours and then convince your 'leaders'. Isn't it about time?
Take the red pill.
This is Microsoft research. They do come up with cool things, the cool things just never make it to market. And needless to say, Microsoft developing the product for their own platform will result in a middling device.
Cool? Definitely. Improve the gaming experience? More than likely. Reality? Not even remotely close.
Game studios are going broke left right and centre. Games publishers are falling out of their trees and the ideal solution? Electro shock therapy for gamers?
This is perhaps the worst idea ever. Force feedback controllers were never really popular and this is just an extension of that bad idea.
It appears to take a conservative approach in its demand for data breaches to be reported, with only classifications of serious data breaches considered
Australian privacy regulations are a total joke. The privacy commissioner is a bureaucrat with no power. Businesses take, steal, trade, share, sell and harvest personal details willy nilly and there's no oversight or punishment whatsoever. How do they accomplish this? They set up shell companies which they use to harvest, trade and purchase personal data then shut down the companies after they've 'purchased' the data from them. "No Mr privacy commissioner, it wasn't us. It was company ABC which unfortunately .. is now a defunct corporation so there's no way to know how they got those private details. But before they closed up business in the floor below us, they assured us that everything was perfectly legal. Honest to goodness sir, there's simply nothing we can do!"
.. 'ties' to large marketing companies. Banks track purchases for the police (with no oversite or warrant), personal details are sold straight out of ATO records, supermarkets track every single purchase a person makes throughout their lives trading this to whomever they consider a 'business partner' and the consumer (if they manage to discover a company has their details) doesn't even have the right to have those details removed from the company's database.
.. the content in this post is not assumption or guess work, I've personally experienced everything listed here.
Privacy isn't even a remotely important priority. Anything that's raised as a bill is going to be full of loopholes like swiss cheese, because the political representatives in Australia include people with (how shall I put this gently)
BTW
the governments want happy, content people who have all the access to entertainment they want - after all it makes them more complacent
I don't care how complacent the government is, I still don't give a shit.
At what point in history did the commercial software to run a PC start costing 3-5 times the cost of the physical PC?
.. where the software is too expensive, the interface is busted and the stability is screwed .. Ubuntu launched Unity! That shit is seriously going to take over the world man. Every man and his dog is going to be using a tablet with Unity on it! And telephones too, there's nothing more satisfying than taking a swipe at your telephone .. trust me, I've seen the shiny videos with "it's so pretty" reviews on cnet!
And just at the right point
But in all seriousness, what sort of desktop distro could a western government safely choose now? It's almost 2 choices:
1/ Roll your own
2/ Use Redhat
Choice 1 is okay for smaller governments, but choice 2 is the only realistic option for larger governments.
anyone in the Sunnyvale, CA area can meet up with the team at the Bioluminesence Community meetups at BioCurious
Curious .. yes. Bio Curious? Not sure, but I must admit to being cautious about attending.
defending a fictitious network against incoming attacks
I bet the network was named:
:)
Computer
Hookup
Imitating
Network
Attacks
How are the pipfruit producers of the world doing in their battle to reclaim their good name form the company formerly run by Steve Jobs?
They're holding out for the payout to ripen before squeezing for a juicy settlement.
I really have to wonder why anybody would have thought that it would NOT be a mess
Everyone has reasons to delude themselves. Making tonnes and tonnes of cash for doing nothing is a reason.
And what about mythological warrior women?
The mythological warror woman lobby doesn't have as much influence as it used to. But I hear they're having a comeback.
Personally, I'm surprised the moderation staff here hasn't just "blocked out" his network range yet honestly!
Say what you want about this guy, he has some good ideas. Why wouldn't someone polluting /.'s chat have their network range blocked from posting?
There's one problem with your analogy, people want to eat hamburgers. People don't want to drive to work.
Privatising the roads with costs being handed on to drivers isn't a solution. Inner city housing is more expensive than housing out of the city, so the people who can't afford to pay for the use of the roads are the ones who get forced to pay for the use of the roads. The real problem is that people like Elon Musk stupidly put their offices in locations which require staff to live in the inner city or travel to the inner city. He sticks his office in a location then complains that he has to commute to it?? Most of us don't have the luxury of deciding where our office will be but this guy actually decided that he wanted to commute on this route to his office and is now complaining to the government about his decision.
It's true that a public roads contractor will swallow whatever money you give them. The solution is public private tendering. The government tenders a job at a fixed price for a set outcome, then contracts the job out to the winner. If they don't come up with results, they're in breach of contract. Putting a price on the cost of travelling on a road simply disguises the problem of congestion.
The long term solution is to have more tele-commuters and greater spatial distribution of workplaces. Increases in tele-commuting are going to happen naturally over time as businesses clue into the cost savings of reduced office space, electricity, air conditioning and other infrastructure. Improvements in communications infrastructure will also allow for a more seamless home-work environment experience. Along with that, you can pay tele-commuters less to work because the vast majority of people would prefer to work from home rather than travel to an office. Combining this with adequate public transport is more than enough to not require anywhere near the breadth of roads that are currently required. "People should pay to use roads!" doesn't solve a damned thing. It's a right wing call for more extreme private control.
Try creating a private road system, and wait to see what happens. Companies will only upgrade the roads when people stop using them, because this is the only motivation a corporation has, to keep making money. Roads absolutely must remain a public trust. Anything else is sticking your head in a bucket of sand.
Called SDSSJ1506+54
Catchy!
If he was working in Australian IT, especially for the government, he was probably so bored to death by his job that he needed an outlet.
These poor IT 'professionals' should be nurtured, not punished. Have sympathy for their pain. Finding bugs in 10 year old spaghetti code will do anybody's head in.