There are a few startups which I think have succeeded in actually improving the situation compared to before. Take github for example. It bases on an open standard (git), and its reachable with a web browser. Together with the fact that it doesn't really require any data from you when setting up an account, unlike facebook or google, and that its ad-free, its in fact a real improvement over sourceforge.net (sorry dice) with svn. Yes, part of the improvement is linus' fault (git), but still github has done alot in order to improve and simplify user experience, compared to sf.net. That combined with the different business model gives a better product for open source software, and a great product for closed source software as well (where sf.net has no offerings afaik).
Stackoverflow is similar. Its greatest achievement is in my eyes to replace phpbb and its friends with forum software that puts the best and working answer into the foreground, eliminating spam that would (like the "me too or thanks" stuff) make it harder to find the answer. Yes, many people see it as the temple of cargo cult programming, and the community is great but still large parts of it seem to like boost, but it is a real actual help with common problems with software, and many smart people like Mark Adler answer questions there, their answers being smart as well. Its basically a community maintained FAQ page.
But whatsapp is an example of worsening the situation. It replaces an open (SMS/xmpp/e-mail) protocol by something proprietary. Also, its actively tried to stop the spread of alternative implementations, that connect to their service. If a company maintains such a close control of their product, it can abuse it in the future much easier, because the open environment around it has a much harder time spawning a fork.
Both stackoverflow and github have found ways how to make money without fucking their users, and controlling their product tightly, and they live great from the money. And the cool thing is that they already serve as source of inspiration for people who make similarly great products (take travis CI for example), and stackoverflow is actively trying to get out of the "developer" niche, I hope they will be successful and become a reference in non-technical fields as well.
Yeah, these guys making big headlines about license violations do more harm than good. Perhaps the project will now adapt to comply with the license, but open source will have a bad name inside the company. And additionally it will just lead to even more GPL avoidance.
I mean just think of the conversation if the question turns up what to license some in house software that's about to be released as open source:
dev: hi boss which license should we chose for the project? boss: What licenses are there? dev: For example, there is MIT, and there is the GPL license. In my opinion, GPL is better because it ensures we always have the most improved version of the software. boss: Wasn't this GPL stuff those stupid people brought our company into headlines, damaging our reputation? dev: Umm, yeah. boss: Does MIT protect other companies from these kind of people? dev: Yes, it does. boss: Let's take MIT then, companies using the software should not be punished for using it.
The gobi desert is already part of china, I don't think they need to rule over more dirt. There isn't really anything precious on the moon, except perhaps the dust which can be used in fusion reactors one day.
Wayland unfortunately doesn't fix many problems linux desktop applications have. You still will need compositor specific code in order to support more than the bare minimum. Fortunately however, wayland fixes many security related issues.
wouldn't you be pissed if you went to work for a company, and after being there 6 months the manager asked you to move to a different department (or to find another job) because they were sexually attracted to you (when you had done nothing but be polite)?
If it there had been situations in the past that were uncomfortable for me as well perhaps I'd agree to it, but if they hid it well enough so that I didn't knew it, I would be suprised at least. The thing of course is that if we worked together for 6 months, then switching might be a setback, so it would cause problems, yes.
If asking female students to switch courses is the exception and not the rule, then I don't think its a problem.
To the options listed by you: Men who can't maintain professional conduct with female students at all shouldn't go to a facility where students get teached, there are other ways they can do research as well. But the question remains what not being able to maintain professional conduct means.
Well at least you can say that $1bn revenue each day is easily met by the US company walmart, and, if you look at absolute numbers, walmart has even more revenue per year than Aramco. But probably 99% of aramco's revenue is net income, while walmart has to pay for the products they sell, and their much higher number of employees (50x as many).
Because microsoft controls when the update gets installed, and there is no way you can disable updates.
Usually a software manufacturer just puts the updated software online, and then you can at least say "I don't want the automatic updates to be installed".
He told her the truth, that he was sexually attracted. I think his is much better than if he had thought of a fake reason for her to leave his courses, e.g. to give her bad grades so that she chooses another department to specialize later on.
We live in a world with the principle that anybody should be able to become nearly anything, independent of how they live, whom they love, how attractive they are or how revealing they clothe.
In the past they said that the university isn't the place for women. We now got to the point to say that this is wrong.
You say that the university isn't the place for men who occasionally fall in love with one of the students of their sexual preference? Isn't that similar thinking to above?
Yes, I do agree that we should close university's doors for people who get emotional with every woman and can't hold it back, but there really should be a reasonable compromise.
In what way were the student's feelings disregarded? The adviser wanted to protect her, and eliminate the chance of non-consensual contact between the two. He just wanted to live his life, without having to deal with "you can't have* her" every week.
The biggest thing I hate about SJWs is that they only look at the world from their own (female, and mostly speaking with female victims of sexual harrassment, not with men) perspective. What should he have done if he had such feelings? Quit his job? Ignore his feelings, every week, because men have to be strong? Here, that's a stereotype.
If you actually scroll a bit up, you'll see that there were two bugs: one information leak, that exposes the private crypto keys, and a buffer overflow, not exploitable if the non-default options are set.
I knew that there has been updates for openssl since I last ran apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, it asked me to update the "openssh-client" package.
They probably like the json license. Its disliked in the whole free software and open source community, not even google likes it even though its infamous clause sounds so similar to their former motto.
Fuck scribd, I can't even really read in their interface. A third of my screen is covered by their various bars etc. And on android (where I've originally read it) they only let me "read further" if I install their app. So, I've tried to download it as pdf, but what happened? They asked me to create an account. With facebook. Man, it seems like every bad thing about the startup age accumulated.
I don't think its bad if browsers add some vendor specific features, so that developers can test them. This is one way the standard can be tested on a wide range of devices. It is far better to say "According to our metrics, this feature is enabled on 2000 websites with a total of 20 million users, so it seems to work great and fill a niche" than to say "Well yes it can be implemented but lets first do some bikeshedding".
I agree, one shouldn't blame mozilla. Instead of them having to add the -webkit CSS properties in order to render websites properly, webkit based browsers should drop them, and force the developers to switch to the standard version. Of course, one can say the developers are lazy or the how-to copypasta tutorials are outdated, but even if you say the developers are smart, if they want to support an as wide range of users as possible, and if there are more devices with outdated versions of webkit based browsers out than firefox installations, it makes no sense for the developer to support the standard version. Perhaps in five years when all those android devices (I'd guess most of the outdated webkit browsers are AOSP stock browser) are broken and their owners bought new ones they will switch, but thanks to mozilla and google not chosing to not support the vendor specific properties, the switch will happen even later.
You know that the fact that you block javascript is the ultimate super cookie? How many people block javascript? Less than 0.1% I guess. HTTP GET based tracking is impossible to avoid without VPN like approaches. Probably you avoid to get tracked by most commercial trackers, but if everybody did it, the site owners would just use different trackers.
Javascript is nothing evil by itself, its just a technology. And for some web services you do need it, e.g. to have interactivity. Think of on-line games. Its awesome that you don't have to execute some arbitrary binary that can, if it wants, encrypt your important files so that it can demand money, in order to play a silly 2D game. Or web based chat, it's not possible without js. Even things like if you are on a forum, and you want to be informed if sb replies to you without having to press f5 all the time. But I do agree, a web site that displays static text doesn't have many "good" uses for javascript, "good" from the view of the visitor.
Indeed. Its no suprise that people who agree to talk about personal things to strangers in phone surveys also agree to strangers from the government collecting information about their personal habits and even the tiniest aspects of their lives.
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There are a few startups which I think have succeeded in actually improving the situation compared to before. Take github for example. It bases on an open standard (git), and its reachable with a web browser. Together with the fact that it doesn't really require any data from you when setting up an account, unlike facebook or google, and that its ad-free, its in fact a real improvement over sourceforge.net (sorry dice) with svn. Yes, part of the improvement is linus' fault (git), but still github has done alot in order to improve and simplify user experience, compared to sf.net. That combined with the different business model gives a better product for open source software, and a great product for closed source software as well (where sf.net has no offerings afaik).
Stackoverflow is similar. Its greatest achievement is in my eyes to replace phpbb and its friends with forum software that puts the best and working answer into the foreground, eliminating spam that would (like the "me too or thanks" stuff) make it harder to find the answer. Yes, many people see it as the temple of cargo cult programming, and the community is great but still large parts of it seem to like boost, but it is a real actual help with common problems with software, and many smart people like Mark Adler answer questions there, their answers being smart as well. Its basically a community maintained FAQ page.
But whatsapp is an example of worsening the situation. It replaces an open (SMS/xmpp/e-mail) protocol by something proprietary. Also, its actively tried to stop the spread of alternative implementations, that connect to their service. If a company maintains such a close control of their product, it can abuse it in the future much easier, because the open environment around it has a much harder time spawning a fork.
Both stackoverflow and github have found ways how to make money without fucking their users, and controlling their product tightly, and they live great from the money. And the cool thing is that they already serve as source of inspiration for people who make similarly great products (take travis CI for example), and stackoverflow is actively trying to get out of the "developer" niche, I hope they will be successful and become a reference in non-technical fields as well.
Yeah, these guys making big headlines about license violations do more harm than good. Perhaps the project will now adapt to comply with the license, but open source will have a bad name inside the company. And additionally it will just lead to even more GPL avoidance.
I mean just think of the conversation if the question turns up what to license some in house software that's about to be released as open source:
dev: hi boss which license should we chose for the project?
boss: What licenses are there?
dev: For example, there is MIT, and there is the GPL license. In my opinion, GPL is better because it ensures we always have the most improved version of the software.
boss: Wasn't this GPL stuff those stupid people brought our company into headlines, damaging our reputation?
dev: Umm, yeah.
boss: Does MIT protect other companies from these kind of people?
dev: Yes, it does.
boss: Let's take MIT then, companies using the software should not be punished for using it.
The gobi desert is already part of china, I don't think they need to rule over more dirt. There isn't really anything precious on the moon, except perhaps the dust which can be used in fusion reactors one day.
Wayland unfortunately doesn't fix many problems linux desktop applications have. You still will need compositor specific code in order to support more than the bare minimum. Fortunately however, wayland fixes many security related issues.
welcome to the club :)
Being sexually attracted to somebody doesn't mean you will automatically harass them or become a douchebag.
And he didn't want to become one. Is that illegal?
wouldn't you be pissed if you went to work for a company, and after being there 6 months the manager asked you to move to a different department (or to find another job) because they were sexually attracted to you (when you had done nothing but be polite)?
If it there had been situations in the past that were uncomfortable for me as well perhaps I'd agree to it, but if they hid it well enough so that I didn't knew it, I would be suprised at least. The thing of course is that if we worked together for 6 months, then switching might be a setback, so it would cause problems, yes.
If asking female students to switch courses is the exception and not the rule, then I don't think its a problem.
To the options listed by you: Men who can't maintain professional conduct with female students at all shouldn't go to a facility where students get teached, there are other ways they can do research as well. But the question remains what not being able to maintain professional conduct means.
Well at least you can say that $1bn revenue each day is easily met by the US company walmart, and, if you look at absolute numbers, walmart has even more revenue per year than Aramco. But probably 99% of aramco's revenue is net income, while walmart has to pay for the products they sell, and their much higher number of employees (50x as many).
Great deal apple managers!
Greek pensioners and the debtor countries still have to pay a high price for the tax hole your evasion created.
Because microsoft controls when the update gets installed, and there is no way you can disable updates.
Usually a software manufacturer just puts the updated software online, and then you can at least say "I don't want the automatic updates to be installed".
He told her the truth, that he was sexually attracted. I think his is much better than if he had thought of a fake reason for her to leave his courses, e.g. to give her bad grades so that she chooses another department to specialize later on.
We live in a world with the principle that anybody should be able to become nearly anything, independent of how they live, whom they love, how attractive they are or how revealing they clothe.
In the past they said that the university isn't the place for women. We now got to the point to say that this is wrong.
You say that the university isn't the place for men who occasionally fall in love with one of the students of their sexual preference? Isn't that similar thinking to above?
Yes, I do agree that we should close university's doors for people who get emotional with every woman and can't hold it back, but there really should be a reasonable compromise.
In what way were the student's feelings disregarded? The adviser wanted to protect her, and eliminate the chance of non-consensual contact between the two. He just wanted to live his life, without having to deal with "you can't have* her" every week.
The biggest thing I hate about SJWs is that they only look at the world from their own (female, and mostly speaking with female victims of sexual harrassment, not with men) perspective. What should he have done if he had such feelings? Quit his job? Ignore his feelings, every week, because men have to be strong? Here, that's a stereotype.
If you actually scroll a bit up, you'll see that there were two bugs: one information leak, that exposes the private crypto keys, and a buffer overflow, not exploitable if the non-default options are set.
I knew that there has been updates for openssl since I last ran apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, it asked me to update the "openssh-client" package.
good job, debian guys!
They probably like the json license. Its disliked in the whole free software and open source community, not even google likes it even though its infamous clause sounds so similar to their former motto.
Linux 10?
in the name of patriotism
I wonder, does Obama mean with "patriotism" spying on abroad companies to give their US competitors a benefit? How Trump of him.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/e...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
http://www.telesurtv.net/engli...
Probably they'll hack into Elon Musk's google drive and steal his rocket plans.
Yeah, I guess they'll have alot of fun filtering out all the ascii porn.
Fuck scribd, I can't even really read in their interface. A third of my screen is covered by their various bars etc. And on android (where I've originally read it) they only let me "read further" if I install their app. So, I've tried to download it as pdf, but what happened? They asked me to create an account. With facebook. Man, it seems like every bad thing about the startup age accumulated.
So, for anybody who wants a link to an actually readable pdf: http://www.freepatentsonline.c...
I don't think its bad if browsers add some vendor specific features, so that developers can test them. This is one way the standard can be tested on a wide range of devices. It is far better to say "According to our metrics, this feature is enabled on 2000 websites with a total of 20 million users, so it seems to work great and fill a niche" than to say "Well yes it can be implemented but lets first do some bikeshedding".
I agree, one shouldn't blame mozilla. Instead of them having to add the -webkit CSS properties in order to render websites properly, webkit based browsers should drop them, and force the developers to switch to the standard version. Of course, one can say the developers are lazy or the how-to copypasta tutorials are outdated, but even if you say the developers are smart, if they want to support an as wide range of users as possible, and if there are more devices with outdated versions of webkit based browsers out than firefox installations, it makes no sense for the developer to support the standard version. Perhaps in five years when all those android devices (I'd guess most of the outdated webkit browsers are AOSP stock browser) are broken and their owners bought new ones they will switch, but thanks to mozilla and google not chosing to not support the vendor specific properties, the switch will happen even later.
Popular news: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/lg...
Geek news: https://hackaday.com/2013/11/2... (also consider the blog entry linked in that story http://doctorbeet.blogspot.co.... )
And this is only about that particular company's products, other smart tvs from other companies spy as well.
Selling spyware as a feature, the sales department should be congratulated. No, the whole industry.
You know that the fact that you block javascript is the ultimate super cookie? How many people block javascript? Less than 0.1% I guess. HTTP GET based tracking is impossible to avoid without VPN like approaches. Probably you avoid to get tracked by most commercial trackers, but if everybody did it, the site owners would just use different trackers.
Javascript is nothing evil by itself, its just a technology. And for some web services you do need it, e.g. to have interactivity. Think of on-line games. Its awesome that you don't have to execute some arbitrary binary that can, if it wants, encrypt your important files so that it can demand money, in order to play a silly 2D game. Or web based chat, it's not possible without js. Even things like if you are on a forum, and you want to be informed if sb replies to you without having to press f5 all the time. But I do agree, a web site that displays static text doesn't have many "good" uses for javascript, "good" from the view of the visitor.
Indeed. Its no suprise that people who agree to talk about personal things to strangers in phone surveys also agree to strangers from the government collecting information about their personal habits and even the tiniest aspects of their lives.