I'm surprised that their legal team did this, because it could arguably be used to invalidate the entire contract.
The validity of contracts is predicated on the understanding that people actually read and understand the terms of a contract before agreeing to them. By clearly demonstrating that the other party has not read the terms, it's hard to argue that the contract is binding. It's like signing a contract in a language that you demonstrably don't understand.
Maintaining unit files seemed easier than maintaining sysvinit scripts, so the distro maintainers liked it (along with a couple of other init replacement contenders). It's also shiny and new and backed by RedHat.
There was feature creep and capricious architectural design before most distros picked it up, but perhaps people didn't think that it would keep getting worse and worse. Now the project encroaches on more and more system roles and doesn't play well with the existing tools.
Worse, due to the button being on the phone now there is the possibility for Google to know the phone's location that wasn't there before.** That's a new information leak that wasn't there before.
You don't use Google services without fully buying into the idea that privacy is a quaint anachronism or that Google is a benevolent big brother. Nobody who is already living happily in Google-land will care at all about just another information leak.
That was a great indicator until I found one that makes a beeping sound while it's processing and then a different beep when it's done. Every person in front of me pulled their card out too soon.
Its pretty simple, if you are in the left lane and there is someone behind you (or approaching) and nobody in front of you, you need to pass and get over as soon as possible.
Ideally, you shouldn't be hanging out in the left lane at all unless the road is completely saturated. If it's possible for people to pass you on the right, and especially if people are actively passing you on the right, then you have become a legitimate hazard to others and need to move over.
I was recently disappointed to see a sticker on a semi truck that said "Do not pass on right". Passing a semi on the right is indeed very dangerous, but professional truck drivers should know better than to continually create situations where people are passing them on the right enough to put such a sign on their truck. If a car can pass a semi on the right, then the lane to the right of the truck is pretty fucking empty and they should stop obstructing traffic.
Linux, the kernel, doesn't care about usernames at all and only deals in UIDs, which would be the most portable and simple way for systemd to handle this, using the name-to-UID mapping found in/etc/passwd.
This talk attributes the picky behavior of adduser to working around other flaky userland tools' conventions, like chmod's "username.groupname". The no leading numbers rule is certainly not written anywhere that I've found besides the adduser manpage.
As far as POSIX is concerned, usernames can be any of the portable character set [A-Za-z0-9_-.] but can't start with a hyphen.
3.426 User Name A string that is used to identify a user; see also User Database. To be portable across systems conforming to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, the value is composed of characters from the portable filename character set. The hyphen should not be used as the first character of a portable user name.
The correct recourse then is to complain to your local government for giving a monopoly to a provider with an arbitration clause.
...and acknowledge that in the absence of a competitive choice and the absence of negotiating power, the terms of the contract are indeed "forced" if the customer wants internet service at all.
The local governments can't "give the stamp of approval" to otherwise unenforceable contract terms. That is absolutely beyond the scope of their authority.
Systemd, is a poor idea, poorly implemented in a project thats poorly managed.
If systemd is bad, why the distros featuring it are thriving, while the non-systemd ones are small projects with uncertain future [Nota bene: I'm not a systemd advocate?
Inertia. The specifically non-systemd ones are either brand new and are in the early stages of adoption/development (Devuan) or are old, but haven't had a large following for years (Slackware). [Slackware will never die, by the way. It's one of the immortals.]
Let's look at it another way: This may be because I'm not in the corporate world, but I haven't met somebody who has deliberately installed anything from RedHat (or had anything good to say about RedHat) during this decade and systemd development and integration started at the beginning of this decade at RedHat. If systemd was not bad, why would this be the case?
"0day" is not an illegal username. You don't even any need "tools", beyond a text editor, to legitimately and legally create users on Linux.
Systemd only considers it to be illegal because they don't want to bother correctly parsing and validating strings and yet still want to use a common field for string or integer input values.
Do you even ever read the things you write or do you just like to make rectally sourced claims with affected authority.
You're arguing that there's little profit in residential electricity sales, even though this is something that you can actually look up (the first hit gives an average margin of 8-10% worldwide).
You're arguing that the low profits are what keeps other people from opening electrical utility companies, which is ludicrous. These are the the quintessential natural monopolies.
Then you finish up with the assertion that implementing rate-following metering would make it hard for utilities to stay afloat, even though I described direct experience with a co-op that has been doing that for decades.
It just doesn't make any sense to expose some schmuck with his A/C on in the livingroom to these prices.
Sure it does. Why do you think it wouldn't?
The reason that it isn't exposed to residential customers is the inertia of existing accounting systems and the desire to increase profits by not passing savings onto customers.
The town where I went to college had an electrical co-op which bid on power from several neighboring plants or started up their own plant if it was more economical to do so. The price results of the bidding process were passed on to the residents and we enjoyed very inexpensive electricity and occasionally shockingly cheap electricity. Removing the profit motive led to much better service and prices for all of the customers.
It's actually a piece of creative marketing. The "squirrels of outage" are almost certainly human-chosen reductions in preventative maintenance...
It definitely is. That's why I put squirrels in quotes and have no interest in working with the utility company anymore.
They only blame it on squirrels because the weather here is mild and they can't blame their poor performance on ice or storms. There aren't even that many squirrels here and there are no bushy tailed rats or anything like that. I've lived places with lots of wildlife and urban critters and we've never had these problems anywhere else.
The second world war that was started by Europeans (who narcissistically saw themselves as "the world"), after how many centuries of endless wars?
Historically, you guys not being bloodthirsty warmongers and colonial oppressors is just a recent and short downtick. It's good to see that you haven't let yourselves get all self-righteous about it!
The system's pretty simple, so I do have extra parts on hand, and the whole thing's just a switch throw from running on the grid again if things go sideways. I also run the AC from the grid because I didn't want to spec for it and I don't really care if it stops for a little while the grid power is out.
This is definitely the best of both worlds for me because I just wanted to get away from the regular outages. Tinkering with the panels and get a little renewable electricity were just bonuses!
On the grid you have a few hundred square miles target where something can go wrong. Vs your your own power where the target for something going wrong is a few hundred square feet.
Yes, but that's not the whole story. My own power generation was set up by a hobbyist (me) with limited resources and access to only consumer level and home-made equipment and is maintained by that same hobbyist in his scarce free time.
The power utility has a much larger system to maintain, but does so with an annual revenue of over $10 billion, many decades of experience, and a team of several thousand subject matter experts. "Squirrels" taking down large sections of town on a regular basis is pretty pathetic.
That's happened here, too. When the drought's over, you'll notice that the rates don't go back down. The administration will then bloat to cover the increased revenue and the next drought will necessitate increasing the rates even further. Horrible ratchet...
There's something terribly wrong if your grid is so unreliable that your self-maintaned system is better.
Yes there is, but fixing that "something terribly wrong" is beyond my means and avoiding it by putting panels on my roof is well within my means.
I went solar just to get away from the regular hours-long "squirrel on transformer" events that occur in my very populated US metro area. So far, my system has only ever gone down when I took it down to upgrade it. The utility has no interest in increasing the reliability of their grid and I have no interest in spending my life fighting them over it.
The problem with systemd is the half-assed assimilation of more and more system functions.
Why does systemd even have its own DNS resolver?
How many people are working on it and reviewing the code for security issues?
Why was the whole thing rewritten from scratch instead of just writing a shim for the previously used, reviewed, secure resolvers that exist?
It's not just DNS resolvers, either. I've had issues with systemd's own (very incomplete) SNTP client, which is used instead of more mature and robust clients. Why do they keep reinventing the wheel in such a sloppy way?
Might as well have said, "Let them eat cake!" If all of the humans were to volunteer for worthy causes instead of wasting the world's resources on gainful employment, all of those good causes would be solved!
GPU miners aren't getting rich from any of this. They're trying to make some living money in a world fucked up by the astronomical greed of a tiny fraction of humanity.
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I'm surprised that their legal team did this, because it could arguably be used to invalidate the entire contract.
The validity of contracts is predicated on the understanding that people actually read and understand the terms of a contract before agreeing to them. By clearly demonstrating that the other party has not read the terms, it's hard to argue that the contract is binding. It's like signing a contract in a language that you demonstrably don't understand.
It's a trojan horse story.
Maintaining unit files seemed easier than maintaining sysvinit scripts, so the distro maintainers liked it (along with a couple of other init replacement contenders). It's also shiny and new and backed by RedHat.
There was feature creep and capricious architectural design before most distros picked it up, but perhaps people didn't think that it would keep getting worse and worse. Now the project encroaches on more and more system roles and doesn't play well with the existing tools.
The issue (which has a CVE with a critical score) was closed as "not a bug".
Think about that for a little while before responding again that it was "fixed".
From TFS: "Kim is suing over sexual harassment and discrimination, assault and battery, demanding a jury trial..."
It sounds like she doesn't want to quietly settle out of court and let the CEO buy his way out of public scrutiny of his actions. Good for her.
Worse, due to the button being on the phone now there is the possibility for Google to know the phone's location that wasn't there before.** That's a new information leak that wasn't there before.
You don't use Google services without fully buying into the idea that privacy is a quaint anachronism or that Google is a benevolent big brother. Nobody who is already living happily in Google-land will care at all about just another information leak.
Debt is an obligation to pay a sum of money (or some other thing). It doesn't have to be past due.
You are prepaying for rent, its not a debt yet.
As soon as you have an obligation to pay something, it becomes a debt.
That was a great indicator until I found one that makes a beeping sound while it's processing and then a different beep when it's done. Every person in front of me pulled their card out too soon.
Its pretty simple, if you are in the left lane and there is someone behind you (or approaching) and nobody in front of you, you need to pass and get over as soon as possible.
Ideally, you shouldn't be hanging out in the left lane at all unless the road is completely saturated. If it's possible for people to pass you on the right, and especially if people are actively passing you on the right, then you have become a legitimate hazard to others and need to move over.
I was recently disappointed to see a sticker on a semi truck that said "Do not pass on right". Passing a semi on the right is indeed very dangerous, but professional truck drivers should know better than to continually create situations where people are passing them on the right enough to put such a sign on their truck. If a car can pass a semi on the right, then the lane to the right of the truck is pretty fucking empty and they should stop obstructing traffic.
Linux, the kernel, doesn't care about usernames at all and only deals in UIDs, which would be the most portable and simple way for systemd to handle this, using the name-to-UID mapping found in /etc/passwd.
This talk attributes the picky behavior of adduser to working around other flaky userland tools' conventions, like chmod's "username.groupname". The no leading numbers rule is certainly not written anywhere that I've found besides the adduser manpage.
As far as POSIX is concerned, usernames can be any of the portable character set [A-Za-z0-9_-.] but can't start with a hyphen.
The correct recourse then is to complain to your local government for giving a monopoly to a provider with an arbitration clause.
...and acknowledge that in the absence of a competitive choice and the absence of negotiating power, the terms of the contract are indeed "forced" if the customer wants internet service at all.
The local governments can't "give the stamp of approval" to otherwise unenforceable contract terms. That is absolutely beyond the scope of their authority.
Systemd, is a poor idea, poorly implemented in a project thats poorly managed.
If systemd is bad, why the distros featuring it are thriving, while the non-systemd ones are small projects with uncertain future [Nota bene: I'm not a systemd advocate?
Inertia. The specifically non-systemd ones are either brand new and are in the early stages of adoption/development (Devuan) or are old, but haven't had a large following for years (Slackware). [Slackware will never die, by the way. It's one of the immortals.]
Let's look at it another way: This may be because I'm not in the corporate world, but I haven't met somebody who has deliberately installed anything from RedHat (or had anything good to say about RedHat) during this decade and systemd development and integration started at the beginning of this decade at RedHat. If systemd was not bad, why would this be the case?
"0day" is not an illegal username. You don't even any need "tools", beyond a text editor, to legitimately and legally create users on Linux.
Systemd only considers it to be illegal because they don't want to bother correctly parsing and validating strings and yet still want to use a common field for string or integer input values.
Do you even ever read the things you write or do you just like to make rectally sourced claims with affected authority.
You're arguing that there's little profit in residential electricity sales, even though this is something that you can actually look up (the first hit gives an average margin of 8-10% worldwide).
You're arguing that the low profits are what keeps other people from opening electrical utility companies, which is ludicrous. These are the the quintessential natural monopolies.
Then you finish up with the assertion that implementing rate-following metering would make it hard for utilities to stay afloat, even though I described direct experience with a co-op that has been doing that for decades.
Very convincing.
It just doesn't make any sense to expose some schmuck with his A/C on in the livingroom to these prices.
Sure it does. Why do you think it wouldn't?
The reason that it isn't exposed to residential customers is the inertia of existing accounting systems and the desire to increase profits by not passing savings onto customers.
The town where I went to college had an electrical co-op which bid on power from several neighboring plants or started up their own plant if it was more economical to do so. The price results of the bidding process were passed on to the residents and we enjoyed very inexpensive electricity and occasionally shockingly cheap electricity. Removing the profit motive led to much better service and prices for all of the customers.
It's actually a piece of creative marketing. The "squirrels of outage" are almost certainly human-chosen reductions in preventative maintenance...
It definitely is. That's why I put squirrels in quotes and have no interest in working with the utility company anymore.
They only blame it on squirrels because the weather here is mild and they can't blame their poor performance on ice or storms. There aren't even that many squirrels here and there are no bushy tailed rats or anything like that. I've lived places with lots of wildlife and urban critters and we've never had these problems anywhere else.
The second world war that was started by Europeans (who narcissistically saw themselves as "the world"), after how many centuries of endless wars?
Historically, you guys not being bloodthirsty warmongers and colonial oppressors is just a recent and short downtick. It's good to see that you haven't let yourselves get all self-righteous about it!
mdsolar's not going to like this...
The system's pretty simple, so I do have extra parts on hand, and the whole thing's just a switch throw from running on the grid again if things go sideways. I also run the AC from the grid because I didn't want to spec for it and I don't really care if it stops for a little while the grid power is out.
This is definitely the best of both worlds for me because I just wanted to get away from the regular outages. Tinkering with the panels and get a little renewable electricity were just bonuses!
If you close your account or are cut off, then you're no longer legally "grid connected" and the property can be condemned.
GOTO 10 (the beginning of this thread).
On the grid you have a few hundred square miles target where something can go wrong. Vs your your own power where the target for something going wrong is a few hundred square feet.
Yes, but that's not the whole story. My own power generation was set up by a hobbyist (me) with limited resources and access to only consumer level and home-made equipment and is maintained by that same hobbyist in his scarce free time.
The power utility has a much larger system to maintain, but does so with an annual revenue of over $10 billion, many decades of experience, and a team of several thousand subject matter experts. "Squirrels" taking down large sections of town on a regular basis is pretty pathetic.
That's happened here, too. When the drought's over, you'll notice that the rates don't go back down. The administration will then bloat to cover the increased revenue and the next drought will necessitate increasing the rates even further. Horrible ratchet...
There's something terribly wrong if your grid is so unreliable that your self-maintaned system is better.
Yes there is, but fixing that "something terribly wrong" is beyond my means and avoiding it by putting panels on my roof is well within my means.
I went solar just to get away from the regular hours-long "squirrel on transformer" events that occur in my very populated US metro area. So far, my system has only ever gone down when I took it down to upgrade it. The utility has no interest in increasing the reliability of their grid and I have no interest in spending my life fighting them over it.
The problem with systemd is the half-assed assimilation of more and more system functions.
It's not just DNS resolvers, either. I've had issues with systemd's own (very incomplete) SNTP client, which is used instead of more mature and robust clients. Why do they keep reinventing the wheel in such a sloppy way?
Might as well have said, "Let them eat cake!" If all of the humans were to volunteer for worthy causes instead of wasting the world's resources on gainful employment, all of those good causes would be solved!
GPU miners aren't getting rich from any of this. They're trying to make some living money in a world fucked up by the astronomical greed of a tiny fraction of humanity.