Regrettably, by 2005 when working at IBM, I encountered no evidence it had ever existed. Windows and Linux boxes only, and the topic never brought up. Seems that history could have gone quite differently, with the right resources at the right time.
I saw OS/2 on the decline in IBM between 97 and 2000. It was used extensively in 97 and was even the primary desktop. Win95 was overtaking it in those years.
The OS had warts, big warts. The "Synchronous Message Queue" on the GUI was a huge one. Some stupid application would freeze and your whole UI would get stuck.
The later fixes to this were... meh. They saved a reboot, but it still felt like you were working in a cooperative multitasking environment. This made even Win95 seem more stable for most end-users. When Win2k came out, it was clear OS/2 had no future.
"Essentially, Apple turned all iPhone owners into unpaid contractors who scoured the Earth recording the locations of every SSID, and used a chunk of their data plan to transmit this data back to themselves."
If you think that's bad, you should read on how Google Traffic works...
One of the biggest innovations of the iPhone was to strong-arm the carriers to allow an app store outside their control. This was so bad in Canada that it took nearly a year before any carrier would agree to sell them. http://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-coming-to-canada/#!
Before the iPhone, the *customer* was the carrier. The *features* were being able to lock people out of their phones and make them pay to download their photos, upload ringtones, tether, etc, etc. The more you could lock out and frustrate the customer into buying a new phone or paying for things which should be free, the more attractive the phone was.
I had to torrent updates for my BB from sketchy sources because the carrier didn't want to see me update... ever. It might mean I'd wait to sign another contract. None of my problems with BBs was ever fixed in any of the updates I found, and the phone never did half of what was advertised. (anyone remember wishing a "battery pull" could be mapped to a convenience button?)
That crap which makes the Android phones suck is the same old business model. Why would they discount these phones and allow you to update it if it means you might sign a new contract for a new phone instead? Why would Google interfere with this shady business model between manufacturers and telcos? Either way, Google gets your data, which is all they want.
Products which are abandoned is what the carrier wants.
Apple is at hardware and services company first. Selling your data is not their primary business goal.
Google's business model depends on violating your privacy. They subsidize the development of hardware and software services to gain more access to more data.
"man git" is about as useful for learning git as an engineering manual is to teaching somebody to drive.
The best way to learn Git is to use it as part of a team for a project, otherwise the terms are misleading, the commands are idiosyncratic and the options are endless.
Create a project on Github, go through their tutorial https://help.github.com/. It helps with the absolute basics.
"Anything but an almighty God. Right? Has anyone ever stopped to think that there may be scientific principles behind a benevolent Creator that may simply be indiscernable from our perspective in the universe... especially if He created that universe?"
Isn't your whole faith based on discernible differences?
Although maybe He created a fake God to test people's scrutiny of his infalibility? Have you thought of that? Non unbeliever!
"Based on the foregoing analysis, the Court concludes that the NIT warrant was issued without jurisdiction and thus was void ab initio,"
And now:
"Previously, under the federal rules on criminal procedures, a magistrate judge couldn't approve a warrant request to search a computer remotely if the investigator didn't know where the computer was -- because it might be outside his or her jurisdiction."
Would be nice to hear from a lawyer if the previous ruling was taken to the supreme court and amended based on... no clue, but some legal reason.
The one which comes up after "remind me in 4 hours" steals the foreground and keystrokes. I've had Windows decide to reboot while typing in the middle of a sentence.
There's some really basic UI improvements MS could make, but instead they focus on nausea inducing animations, simulations of glare and half-ass reimplementations which require keeping the old stuff around anyway...
Apple's only slightly less horrible in this, and Linux is.... utterly divided.
"This isn't.. even an exploit really. You could just put a fucking flashed based video player on a.onion and watch the logs."
It's entirely possible that Matt said the exact same thing to his bosses.
It makes the ethics of what he did a bit less clear to me. He spent years telling people how to be secure on Tor, then spent a few more unmasking those who didn't listen.
"...believe that men are suddenly going to go harass women in bathrooms and then claim they identify as women is what they and probably you are so fearful of."
Agreed... however...
Some people are just fucked up. I knew a guy who was a perv. He'd come on to the women and didn't know when enough was enough. Anyway... one day he says "you know... I'm a woman now", shows up wearing dresses, but still comes on to the women and doesn't know when enough was enough. It was bad enough that the women used the handicapped bathroom when she was anywhere near the lady's room. I was sexually attacked by her when she was pumped full of hormones in her second puberty (imagine a 30 year old man with the horomones of a 12 year old girl)... the teasing and punches scale to full-on-assault.
She's since had the surgery, calmed the hell down and is a reasonably adjusted person. Everyone who's got no "tallywacker" now, at one point was a non-passable guy-in-a-dress, and may even have been an asshole towards women.
Assholes who sexually harass women then follow them into the bathroom should be charged with sexual harassment. Regardless of gender. Can you stop them from going into the bathroom? No. All the more reason to charge them with sexual harassment. Does this mean all trans people are perverts? No. All the more reason to charge them with sexual harassment.
The onus is on women too to say "seriously, I get that you're a lesbian trapped in a man's body, I've already told my friends what you're doing, I can't stop you from following me into the bathroom, but get the fuck away from me or I'm calling 911"
Otherwise, I agree with you 100%. Forcing a timid and confused trans woman into the men's room because some assholes don't know when to stop, is not the answer.
I'm pointing out that we're not only talking about well-adjusted post-op passable women. We're talking about non-passable pre-op trans people, about people who've chosen a more fluid gender identity who might mix it up from day to day (and keep their tallywacker status their own private business). We're talking about perverts who sexually harass people too, because perverts use the bathroom too and just because somebody's a lecherous asshole, we can't pass judgement on the unbelievably of their claims to a confused sexual identity.
I think we should imagine the strawmen here, because that's what we're permitting.
All that said. My opinion? we should use the sexual harassment laws and not question people's gender identity.
I sometimes wonder what would happen to the pay gap if you added the salaries from the population which committed suicide. Suicide rates being much higher among men.
Anyway, in my lifetime, working in tech, Microsoft is the norm. There has been no paygap along my career path, and there have been very, very few women, even though I interview and hire them preferentially. none apply.
A friend of mine had a child with her neighbour. Her husband didn't know.
She didn't know until he was 14.
She figured it out when she learned about pregnancy complications due to blood type. The doctors didn't say a word about it despite her complex pregnancy and its impossibility with her husband.
Point is that it was common enough that the doctors didn't even feel the need to inform the mother.
"I'm tired of hearing that a backdoor can't be done securely. Of course people have been doing dual access secure control for a long time. Essentially, you..."
Just imagine how you would do it for PGP or SSH. Oh, you want to generate a new key? not permitted. You need to go to the DMZ, pay $50 and talk to their crypto people and they'll issue you your public/private pair and submit the backdoors to the appropriate government agencies.
I guess you could have a master crypto library with a master key so that you don't need to visit the ministry of Security... although it's not clear how a new OS would get a new key... it might require the OS vendor to have a government certified CA which would require audits and certifications to operate. Microsoft would love it. Audits cost easily $100k+/year. The big Linux distros could probably pull it off, except Debian... maybe they'll get a key from some university somewhere.
Of course all these agencies require independent crypto vaults to store the keys... unless you mean an ultra-master key? what if the presence of millions of derivatives of the master allows for an algorithmic weakness to pick apart the master key. No, not a good idea. I guess the $50 admin fee can go to managing the multi-billion-dollar vault-system which will go to Diebold or somebody else's brother... and it will get hacked anyway, and even after everyone rotates their keys, all their data-at-rest will have their key size reduced by a third.
Then what do you do about legacy devices? about foreign devices? what about devices exported from the U.S.? I guess you could be like Turkey and require cellphones to be on a trust list... establish more severe border controls... etc. etc.
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I should add that although OS/2 3.0 could run off 4MB of RAM, you'll pull your eyes out waiting for it to boot.
Systems were frustrating to use on less than 16M.
Just give it lots of RAM. 16M minimum.
I guess that's lots... when you're looking for SIMMs.
Regrettably, by 2005 when working at IBM, I encountered no evidence it had ever existed. Windows and Linux boxes only, and the topic never brought up. Seems that history could have gone quite differently, with the right resources at the right time.
I saw OS/2 on the decline in IBM between 97 and 2000. It was used extensively in 97 and was even the primary desktop. Win95 was overtaking it in those years.
The OS had warts, big warts. The "Synchronous Message Queue" on the GUI was a huge one. Some stupid application would freeze and your whole UI would get stuck.
The later fixes to this were... meh. They saved a reboot, but it still felt like you were working in a cooperative multitasking environment. This made even Win95 seem more stable for most end-users. When Win2k came out, it was clear OS/2 had no future.
"Essentially, Apple turned all iPhone owners into unpaid contractors who scoured the Earth recording the locations of every SSID, and used a chunk of their data plan to transmit this data back to themselves."
If you think that's bad, you should read on how Google Traffic works...
One of the biggest innovations of the iPhone was to strong-arm the carriers to allow an app store outside their control. This was so bad in Canada that it took nearly a year before any carrier would agree to sell them. http://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-coming-to-canada/#!
Before the iPhone, the *customer* was the carrier. The *features* were being able to lock people out of their phones and make them pay to download their photos, upload ringtones, tether, etc, etc. The more you could lock out and frustrate the customer into buying a new phone or paying for things which should be free, the more attractive the phone was.
I had to torrent updates for my BB from sketchy sources because the carrier didn't want to see me update... ever. It might mean I'd wait to sign another contract. None of my problems with BBs was ever fixed in any of the updates I found, and the phone never did half of what was advertised. (anyone remember wishing a "battery pull" could be mapped to a convenience button?)
That crap which makes the Android phones suck is the same old business model. Why would they discount these phones and allow you to update it if it means you might sign a new contract for a new phone instead? Why would Google interfere with this shady business model between manufacturers and telcos? Either way, Google gets your data, which is all they want.
Products which are abandoned is what the carrier wants.
Apple is at hardware and services company first. Selling your data is not their primary business goal.
Google's business model depends on violating your privacy. They subsidize the development of hardware and software services to gain more access to more data.
It's just a matter of time...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ZGsD3REhQ
And Apple hasn't even begun to target the corporate desktop... yet they're being drawn into it from small businesses and startups.
Meanwhile, the competition...
Since August 2012.
"It would be more effective to have one stay-at-home janitor and the rest working."
Most use an unlicensed daycare, or start one.
It's stunning to me that it can cost $2k/mo to keep a child in daycare, but early childhood educators earn $40-$50k.
What's the best manual for Git?
$ man git
"man git" is about as useful for learning git as an engineering manual is to teaching somebody to drive.
The best way to learn Git is to use it as part of a team for a project, otherwise the terms are misleading, the commands are idiosyncratic and the options are endless.
Create a project on Github, go through their tutorial https://help.github.com/. It helps with the absolute basics.
MS finally got me to run MacOS for work and Linux at home on the desktop.
Took them forever to break Windows this badly.
"Anything but an almighty God. Right? Has anyone ever stopped to think that there may be scientific principles behind a benevolent Creator that may simply be indiscernable from our perspective in the universe ... especially if He created that universe?"
Isn't your whole faith based on discernible differences?
Although maybe He created a fake God to test people's scrutiny of his infalibility? Have you thought of that? Non unbeliever!
"Sony... that explains everything doesn't it?"
It explains nothing to me. Torvalds has used Viaos on and off over the years. http://www.businessinsider.com...
Do you know something the rest of us don't?
This sounds like a direct response to the recent ruling covered here a few days ago:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/04/21/1718230/in-a-first-judge-throws-out-evidence-obtained-from-fbi-malware
"Based on the foregoing analysis, the Court concludes that the NIT warrant was issued without jurisdiction and thus was void ab initio,"
And now:
"Previously, under the federal rules on criminal procedures, a magistrate judge couldn't approve a warrant request to search a computer remotely if the investigator didn't know where the computer was -- because it might be outside his or her jurisdiction."
Would be nice to hear from a lawyer if the previous ruling was taken to the supreme court and amended based on... no clue, but some legal reason.
The one which comes up after "remind me in 4 hours" steals the foreground and keystrokes. I've had Windows decide to reboot while typing in the middle of a sentence.
There's some really basic UI improvements MS could make, but instead they focus on nausea inducing animations, simulations of glare and half-ass reimplementations which require keeping the old stuff around anyway...
Apple's only slightly less horrible in this, and Linux is.... utterly divided.
"This isn't .. even an exploit really. You could just put a fucking flashed based video player on a .onion and watch the logs."
It's entirely possible that Matt said the exact same thing to his bosses.
It makes the ethics of what he did a bit less clear to me. He spent years telling people how to be secure on Tor, then spent a few more unmasking those who didn't listen.
With a sense of humor like that, you must be a statistician.
"The theory is that fapping to child porn makes you more likely to molest children. There's no evidence to support that theory - none at all "
I think the study got rejected by the ethics board.
"...believe that men are suddenly going to go harass women in bathrooms and then claim they identify as women is what they and probably you are so fearful of."
Agreed... however...
Some people are just fucked up. I knew a guy who was a perv. He'd come on to the women and didn't know when enough was enough. Anyway... one day he says "you know... I'm a woman now", shows up wearing dresses, but still comes on to the women and doesn't know when enough was enough. It was bad enough that the women used the handicapped bathroom when she was anywhere near the lady's room. I was sexually attacked by her when she was pumped full of hormones in her second puberty (imagine a 30 year old man with the horomones of a 12 year old girl)... the teasing and punches scale to full-on-assault.
She's since had the surgery, calmed the hell down and is a reasonably adjusted person. Everyone who's got no "tallywacker" now, at one point was a non-passable guy-in-a-dress, and may even have been an asshole towards women.
Assholes who sexually harass women then follow them into the bathroom should be charged with sexual harassment. Regardless of gender. Can you stop them from going into the bathroom? No. All the more reason to charge them with sexual harassment. Does this mean all trans people are perverts? No. All the more reason to charge them with sexual harassment.
The onus is on women too to say "seriously, I get that you're a lesbian trapped in a man's body, I've already told my friends what you're doing, I can't stop you from following me into the bathroom, but get the fuck away from me or I'm calling 911"
Otherwise, I agree with you 100%. Forcing a timid and confused trans woman into the men's room because some assholes don't know when to stop, is not the answer.
I'm pointing out that we're not only talking about well-adjusted post-op passable women. We're talking about non-passable pre-op trans people, about people who've chosen a more fluid gender identity who might mix it up from day to day (and keep their tallywacker status their own private business). We're talking about perverts who sexually harass people too, because perverts use the bathroom too and just because somebody's a lecherous asshole, we can't pass judgement on the unbelievably of their claims to a confused sexual identity.
I think we should imagine the strawmen here, because that's what we're permitting.
All that said. My opinion? we should use the sexual harassment laws and not question people's gender identity.
Damn, that reminds me that I need to put the parental filter back on Slashdot. Keep me away from it during office hours.
"Some men literally kill themselves working."
I sometimes wonder what would happen to the pay gap if you added the salaries from the population which committed suicide. Suicide rates being much higher among men.
Anyway, in my lifetime, working in tech, Microsoft is the norm. There has been no paygap along my career path, and there have been very, very few women, even though I interview and hire them preferentially. none apply.
A friend of mine had a child with her neighbour. Her husband didn't know.
She didn't know until he was 14.
She figured it out when she learned about pregnancy complications due to blood type. The doctors didn't say a word about it despite her complex pregnancy and its impossibility with her husband.
Point is that it was common enough that the doctors didn't even feel the need to inform the mother.
"I'm tired of hearing that a backdoor can't be done securely. Of course people have been doing dual access secure control for a long time. Essentially, you ..."
Just imagine how you would do it for PGP or SSH. Oh, you want to generate a new key? not permitted. You need to go to the DMZ, pay $50 and talk to their crypto people and they'll issue you your public/private pair and submit the backdoors to the appropriate government agencies.
I guess you could have a master crypto library with a master key so that you don't need to visit the ministry of Security... although it's not clear how a new OS would get a new key... it might require the OS vendor to have a government certified CA which would require audits and certifications to operate. Microsoft would love it. Audits cost easily $100k+/year. The big Linux distros could probably pull it off, except Debian... maybe they'll get a key from some university somewhere.
Of course all these agencies require independent crypto vaults to store the keys... unless you mean an ultra-master key? what if the presence of millions of derivatives of the master allows for an algorithmic weakness to pick apart the master key. No, not a good idea. I guess the $50 admin fee can go to managing the multi-billion-dollar vault-system which will go to Diebold or somebody else's brother... and it will get hacked anyway, and even after everyone rotates their keys, all their data-at-rest will have their key size reduced by a third.
Then what do you do about legacy devices? about foreign devices? what about devices exported from the U.S.? I guess you could be like Turkey and require cellphones to be on a trust list... establish more severe border controls... etc. etc.
The higher vocal pitch can speak more quickly without turning into a mumble.