Just like working states pay for California here in the US.
By which you presumably are referring to something other than the amount of money paid in various states to the US federal government and amount of money paid out in various states from the US federal government, given that the net flow is from California to Uncle Sam.
I care neither how expensive it is to wire up the US as a whole nor how expensive it is to wire up Sweden as a whole.
I do, however, care how expensive it is to, for example, wire up the New York metropolitan area and the Stockholm metropolitan area, or comparable low-density areas of the US and Sweden.
I don't give a fuck what you don't care about: the fact is that the USA has more people living outside of major metropolitan areas than the entire population of Sweden. If you don't think that's going to have an effect on broadband penetration numbers, then you aren't thinking, and no one should care what you have to say on this subject.
The USA has more people than the entire population of Sweden, period - heck, the state of Georgia has more people than the entire population of Sweden, as does the New York metropolitan area. The CIA World Factbook says that the urban population of the US was 81.6% in 2015 and the urban population of Sweden was 85.8% in 2015.
So rather a lot of the land area of which we have a lot doesn't have a lot of people in it, and a lot of those people aren't sprinkled all that liberally throughout that land area, and any thinking person would understand that asking how hard it is to wire up the areas where ~80-85% of the people live and how hard it is to wire up the areas where ~15-20% of the people live are separate questions that must be asked separately. The average population density of a country large enough to have Big Wide Open Spaces and dense cities is a statistic that any thinking person would realize is meaningless for any discussion of, for example, broadband penetration, because we're not talking about wiring up a country of an average of 35 people per square km evenly distributed throughout the country, we're talking about wiring up a country where ~80% of those people live in urban areas and ~20% don't. (BTW, Sweden's average population density, according to that World Bank page, is lower than that of the US, if you're into comparing statistics meaningless from the point of view of broadband penetration.)
And it would also be interesting to see how different parts of the world do at wiring up their rural areas.
But people should just stop using "butbutbut look at how big the US is!" as a response to criticism of the quality, or lack of same, of US broadband. It's not as if all that land is uniformly populated; there's a very large variation in population density, so most of the US doesn't have a population density of 35 people per square km - most of it is either significantly above that value or significantly below that value. (Remember, the average human being has approximately one testicle and one ovary.)
"Wiring up the US for broadband" isn't a thing; we're not trying to wire up a large area with 35 people per km^2. For example, "wiring the San Francisco Bay Area for (better) broadband" is a very different thing from "wiring rural Iowa for (better) broadband"; the problems and solutions are probably going to be very different for those two projects.
RISC already won, long ago. X86 has been RISC for a while. Legacy x86 instructions are translated into core RISC instruction and the later is (re)scheduled and run. No direct access to the RISC core is available,
Not surprising, as it's not guaranteed to remain the same from processor to processor, and probably doesn't remain the same from processor to processor.
Depending on what you mean by "clean shutdown", you should just have to do some RBAC setup:
Edit/etc/security/exec_attr and add the following profile:
exec_attr:Shutdown:suser:cmd:::/usr/sbin/shutdown:uid=0;gid=1
Add this profile to/etc/user_attr
yourusername:::: profiles=Shutdown
Then your user can shutdown with/usr/bin/pfexec/usr/sbin/shutdown
In this particular case, I am the user in question, and I'm lazy enough that I'd prefer to do it from the GUI as I can in Windows and OS X and Ubuntu and Fedora, for example.
Oh, and I can shut down as non-root from the GUI on Solaris 11, too.
(Not that I'm running Solaris 10 much these days; not much platform-specific libpcap/tcpdump/Wireshark development needed there.)
As to the more general topic, all major OSes operate on the "Principle of Least Privilege", which in this case means discouraging casual use of the superuser account, or disabling it entirely. With apologies to Twain, "Suppose you were logged in as root all the time, and suppose you were an idiot. But, I repeat myself."
There are programs other than XCode that might use git as well.
Yes, but that's irrelevant to the point, which is the the original crack about the grandmother demonstrates nothing other than that Rockoon hadn't bothered to engage their neocortex when making the crack - yes, there are other GUI programs that might use Git, but if your grandmother is using one of them, and is capable of replacing/usr/bin/git, it's very likely that your grandmother has enough technical chops to turn off System Integrity Protection.
You're a cheerleader,
No, I'm somebody who doesn't like bogosity (such as "Apple completely prevents you from replacing/usr/bin/git") being propagated.
so I understand your intense need to defend Apple,
I'll defend anything, from anybody, from what I think to be technically incorrect and false criticism. Perhaps the problem is that the current favorite target of ill-informed foeboys happens to be Apple, so there's currently more ill-informed criticism of Apple than of, say, Microsoft or the Linux community, but I've blasted ill-informed criticism of Windows and Linux in the past as well.
And I'm perfectly willing, for example, to rip Apple's protection of programs in/usr/bin that merely run other unprotected programs in/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin or elsewhere for being a royal pain, breaking, for example, attempts to run/usr/bin/lldb from libtool to debug a built-with-libtool binary in its build directory. (Yes, I filed a Radar. Yes, they blew it off.)
but try to think a little every once in a while.
I do so all the time. You might want to try it yourself, for a change.
In reading the details of the study; this would beg to question how accurate the participant results are , and how many of the participants consider what being truly mobile really means, and if said views are based on users with wired internet through a wireless router using nothing but mobile devices as mobile-only within that household.
Hopefully the actual survey did a good job of preventing wired Internet with a Wi-Fi router being considered "wireless", with, for example, the survey script explicitly trying to catch that case and report it correctly.
The story came from them - the Seattle Times just reprinted it - and the Post's version of the story has an update, with a link to the NTIS press release, which says that "These results come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Computer and Internet Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS), which includes data collected for NTIA in July 2015 from nearly 53,000 households."
If respondent indicates “Wi-Fi,” add: Do you know what kind of Internet service is connected to the Wi-Fi in your household?
to avoid "Wi-Fi" being given as the type of Internet access. The types they offer as the choice are:
"Mobile Internet service or a data plan for a cellular phone, smartphone, tablet, laptop, or other device" and they'll explain "This type of Internet service is provided by a wireless carrier, and may be part of a package that also includes voice calls from a cellular phone or smartphone." if necessary;
"High-speed Internet service installed at home, such as cable, DSL, or fiber- optic service" and they'll explain "This type of Internet service is often provided by a cable company or phone company." if necessary;
"Satellite Internet service";
"Dial-up service";
"Some other service", at which point they're supposed to ask "What other service?" and enter the response verbatim.
So it shouldn't result in people indicating that they have "wireless Internet" if they have wired Internet hooked up to a Wi-Fi route.
I really hate news stories that cite a poll, survey, or scientific paper and don't give a reference so I can see what was actually asked in the poll or survey or actually stated in the paper, rather than something filtered through the kidneys of the person writing the story.
"cellular data plan for a smartphone or other mobile device";
"broadband (high speed) Internet service such as cable, fiber optic, or DSL service, installed in this household";
"satellite Internet service installed in this household";
"dial-up Internet service installed in this household";
"some other service", with a box in which to specify the service.
So, if that's the case, the questions appear to be specific and precise enough to rule out somebody with wired broadband and Wi-Fi reporting it as wireless broadband.
Well, I think it's both true and untrue. I think it is more expensive to wire up the US because we have a lot of land area and people sprinkled through it fairly liberally.
I care neither how expensive it is to wire up the US as a whole nor how expensive it is to wire up Sweden as a whole.
I do, however, care how expensive it is to, for example, wire up the New York metropolitan area and the Stockholm metropolitan area, or comparable low-density areas of the US and Sweden.
I don't care about average population densities for countries other than mini-countries - the average human being has (approximately) one testicle and one ovary, so sometimes averages aren't all that useful.
Microsoft Windows has this. If you turn it off, modify files that are not signed properly, then turn it back on... it complains system files have changed.
You have to specifically make an exclusion or use only properly signed files.
So presumably there's some way to turn off protection of a particular file without turning the protection off entirely; otherwise, this is just like System Integrity Protection, with "turn off protection of a particular file" being done by turning its "restricted" flag:
$ ls -lO/bin/cat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel restricted,compressed 23520 Jan 13 18:13/bin/cat
with
sudo chflags norestricted
on the file, which you could do on OS X only when System Integrity Protection turned off.
The exploit is about a GUI program that invokes git, not using git from the command line.
The exploit is about the git program. The only difference between the GUI program running it and running it directly from the command line is that you can set $PATH so that the command git would run a newer version from/usr/local/bin or ~/bin or wherever, whereas that's more difficult or even impossible to do so from, for example, Xcode.
And, in any case, if your grandmother uses Git from Xcode, and would otherwise be capable of replacing/usr/bin/git, she might not find the extra steps described in Apple's document too problematic, so the "I'll get my grandmother on that." comment was extremely idiotic.
Apple thinks the users of their products are too stupid to handle root account.
If you mean "Apple makes it hard to log in as root", true, but so what? About the only OS into which I log in as root these days is Solaris 10, and that's because they don't let you do a clean shutdown of the system as an ordinary user (unless I've missed something) - I use sudo or su in those cases where I need to do stuff as root.
What makes Apple think their users understand SIP?
Most of their users neither understand it nor need to understand it.
Some of their users do need to understand it, and can understand it; that article is published for them.
If your grandmother uses Git from the command line on her Mac, and would otherwise be capable of replacing/usr/bin/git, she might not find the extra steps described in Apple's document too problematic.
Only if either 1) it's LTE and VoLTE or 2) you're using a VoIP application rather than the "built-in" cellular phone service; the "built-in" cellular phone service is digital, but circuit-switched and not running over IP.
There's "cable" as in "the cable TV industry", there's "cable" as in "the programming on your cable TV connection that doesn't travel over DOCSIS", and there's "cable" as in "the communications infrastructure of the cable TV industry".
Given "There is no point in having completely separate network for watching video and another one for all other information.", I suspect the person to whom you're replying meant "cable" as in "the programming on your cable TV connection that doesn't travel over DOCSIS", i.e. "why doesn't the cable TV industry provide only IP to the home and run their programming over that"?
It sounds, from "cable (in your walls)", as if you're talking about "cable" as in "the communications infrastructure of the cable TV industry", and, in particular, the customer premises part of that infrastructure. In that case, what MoCA proves is that, with MoCA 2.5, you can get "up to 2.5 Gbps actual data rates". Is that really "VASTLY greater bandwidth capacity" than gigabit Ethernet?
Unlike many programming languages, Rust never sleeps. I think someone proposed a sleep() function but he was given a Torvalds-style tongue lashing on the mailing list.
Bear in mind that there's more to the picture than meets the eye.
I know that in the 90s at a class reunion one of my friends mentioned they had PDP computers in Onizuka Air Force base (the blue cube).
Mentec were developing new PDP-11-compatible processors in the 1990s, so there may well have been PDP-11s in there. (These days, if you still need to run PDP-11 software, it's probably on an x86 box running a simulator, with, if necessary, specialized hardware plugged in to handle peripheral buses of that era.)
I've got boxes of vacuum tubes that could be available for the right price.
Even if they were still running the old System/360-based 9020s (which they aren't - they're 3 or more generations beyond that), they wouldn't be using vacuum tubes in the CPU. Maybe the 9020 power supplies, or the displays, used them (other than the CRT itself), but even that might be unlikely.
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That's right. Look on all science students with suspicion. They may be closet terrorists. Turn them into your government leaders.
If we could turn science students into our government leaders, some of them might be better than some of the government leaders we have now.
I suggest you look up what capitalism and socialism actually mean. Because neither definition includes "things cost money".
OK, let's do so. OED says socialism is "A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole." Most of "the means of production, distribution, and exchange" are privately owned in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, so not very socialist (social democratic, but that's different).
Just like working states pay for California here in the US.
By which you presumably are referring to something other than the amount of money paid in various states to the US federal government and amount of money paid out in various states from the US federal government, given that the net flow is from California to Uncle Sam.
I care neither how expensive it is to wire up the US as a whole nor how expensive it is to wire up Sweden as a whole. I do, however, care how expensive it is to, for example, wire up the New York metropolitan area and the Stockholm metropolitan area, or comparable low-density areas of the US and Sweden.
I don't give a fuck what you don't care about: the fact is that the USA has more people living outside of major metropolitan areas than the entire population of Sweden. If you don't think that's going to have an effect on broadband penetration numbers, then you aren't thinking, and no one should care what you have to say on this subject.
The USA has more people than the entire population of Sweden, period - heck, the state of Georgia has more people than the entire population of Sweden, as does the New York metropolitan area. The CIA World Factbook says that the urban population of the US was 81.6% in 2015 and the urban population of Sweden was 85.8% in 2015.
So rather a lot of the land area of which we have a lot doesn't have a lot of people in it, and a lot of those people aren't sprinkled all that liberally throughout that land area, and any thinking person would understand that asking how hard it is to wire up the areas where ~80-85% of the people live and how hard it is to wire up the areas where ~15-20% of the people live are separate questions that must be asked separately. The average population density of a country large enough to have Big Wide Open Spaces and dense cities is a statistic that any thinking person would realize is meaningless for any discussion of, for example, broadband penetration, because we're not talking about wiring up a country of an average of 35 people per square km evenly distributed throughout the country, we're talking about wiring up a country where ~80% of those people live in urban areas and ~20% don't. (BTW, Sweden's average population density, according to that World Bank page, is lower than that of the US, if you're into comparing statistics meaningless from the point of view of broadband penetration.)
So the first question is "Why is Internet service to metropolitan areas cheaper and faster in Asia and Europe than in North America?" The answer isn't "butbutbut look at how big the US is!" You don't have to wire up rural Montana to get cheaper faster Internet to San Francisco or Kansas City.
And it would also be interesting to see how different parts of the world do at wiring up their rural areas.
But people should just stop using "butbutbut look at how big the US is!" as a response to criticism of the quality, or lack of same, of US broadband. It's not as if all that land is uniformly populated; there's a very large variation in population density, so most of the US doesn't have a population density of 35 people per square km - most of it is either significantly above that value or significantly below that value. (Remember, the average human being has approximately one testicle and one ovary.)
"Wiring up the US for broadband" isn't a thing; we're not trying to wire up a large area with 35 people per km^2. For example, "wiring the San Francisco Bay Area for (better) broadband" is a very different thing from "wiring rural Iowa for (better) broadband"; the problems and solutions are probably going to be very different for those two projects.
FWIW, the developer seed of Xcode 7.3.1 contains git 1.7.4.
(Presumably "git 2.7.4".)
Hmmm, "launchd" is awfully close to the spelling of "systemd", should I be concerned and/or outraged?
Well, you definitely should not be surprised.
(I.e., Lennart likes the idea of launchd.)
RISC already won, long ago. X86 has been RISC for a while. Legacy x86 instructions are translated into core RISC instruction and the later is (re)scheduled and run. No direct access to the RISC core is available,
Not surprising, as it's not guaranteed to remain the same from processor to processor, and probably doesn't remain the same from processor to processor.
Depending on what you mean by "clean shutdown", you should just have to do some RBAC setup:
Edit /etc/security/exec_attr and add the following profile:
exec_attr:Shutdown:suser:cmd:::/usr/sbin/shutdown:uid=0;gid=1
Add this profile to /etc/user_attr
yourusername :::: profiles=Shutdown
Then your user can shutdown with /usr/bin/pfexec /usr/sbin/shutdown
In this particular case, I am the user in question, and I'm lazy enough that I'd prefer to do it from the GUI as I can in Windows and OS X and Ubuntu and Fedora, for example.
Oh, and I can shut down as non-root from the GUI on Solaris 11, too.
(Not that I'm running Solaris 10 much these days; not much platform-specific libpcap/tcpdump/Wireshark development needed there.)
As to the more general topic, all major OSes operate on the "Principle of Least Privilege", which in this case means discouraging casual use of the superuser account, or disabling it entirely. With apologies to Twain, "Suppose you were logged in as root all the time, and suppose you were an idiot. But, I repeat myself."
+1
There are programs other than XCode that might use git as well.
Yes, but that's irrelevant to the point, which is the the original crack about the grandmother demonstrates nothing other than that Rockoon hadn't bothered to engage their neocortex when making the crack - yes, there are other GUI programs that might use Git, but if your grandmother is using one of them, and is capable of replacing /usr/bin/git, it's very likely that your grandmother has enough technical chops to turn off System Integrity Protection.
You're a cheerleader,
No, I'm somebody who doesn't like bogosity (such as "Apple completely prevents you from replacing /usr/bin/git") being propagated.
so I understand your intense need to defend Apple,
I'll defend anything, from anybody, from what I think to be technically incorrect and false criticism. Perhaps the problem is that the current favorite target of ill-informed foeboys happens to be Apple, so there's currently more ill-informed criticism of Apple than of, say, Microsoft or the Linux community, but I've blasted ill-informed criticism of Windows and Linux in the past as well.
And I'm perfectly willing, for example, to rip Apple's protection of programs in /usr/bin that merely run other unprotected programs in /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin or elsewhere for being a royal pain, breaking, for example, attempts to run /usr/bin/lldb from libtool to debug a built-with-libtool binary in its build directory. (Yes, I filed a Radar. Yes, they blew it off.)
but try to think a little every once in a while.
I do so all the time. You might want to try it yourself, for a change.
In reading the details of the study; this would beg to question how accurate the participant results are , and how many of the participants consider what being truly mobile really means, and if said views are based on users with wired internet through a wireless router using nothing but mobile devices as mobile-only within that household.
Hopefully the actual survey did a good job of preventing wired Internet with a Wi-Fi router being considered "wireless", with, for example, the survey script explicitly trying to catch that case and report it correctly.
Washington Post FTW!
The story came from them - the Seattle Times just reprinted it - and the Post's version of the story has an update, with a link to the NTIS press release, which says that "These results come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Computer and Internet Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS), which includes data collected for NTIA in July 2015 from nearly 53,000 households."
Further digging found the aforementioned Computer and Internet Use Supplement, which is, I guess, the script used by the person who's calling the people being surveyed. It says, among other things:
to avoid "Wi-Fi" being given as the type of Internet access. The types they offer as the choice are:
So it shouldn't result in people indicating that they have "wireless Internet" if they have wired Internet hooked up to a Wi-Fi route.
Figures it's from that seattle times electronic rag.
No - as the article says:
so it's from the Washington Post.
Here's the Post's version of the story. It actually has a link to the NTIS press release, which the Seattle Times version doesn't, so, yeah, I'd say "rag" for a publisher republishing it without the damn link.
I really hate news stories that cite a poll, survey, or scientific paper and don't give a reference so I can see what was actually asked in the poll or survey or actually stated in the paper, rather than something filtered through the kidneys of the person writing the story.
If the data came from the American Community Survey, then the questions were probably something like these questions from the 2016 American Community Survey, and the options, each one offering "yes" or "no", are:
So, if that's the case, the questions appear to be specific and precise enough to rule out somebody with wired broadband and Wi-Fi reporting it as wireless broadband.
Well, I think it's both true and untrue. I think it is more expensive to wire up the US because we have a lot of land area and people sprinkled through it fairly liberally.
I care neither how expensive it is to wire up the US as a whole nor how expensive it is to wire up Sweden as a whole.
I do, however, care how expensive it is to, for example, wire up the New York metropolitan area and the Stockholm metropolitan area, or comparable low-density areas of the US and Sweden.
I don't care about average population densities for countries other than mini-countries - the average human being has (approximately) one testicle and one ovary, so sometimes averages aren't all that useful.
What a shitty SIP.
Microsoft Windows has this. If you turn it off, modify files that are not signed properly, then turn it back on... it complains system files have changed.
You have to specifically make an exclusion or use only properly signed files.
Are you referring to Windows File Protection, Windows Resource Protection (which apparently replaces Windows File Protection in Vista and later), or some other mechanism?
So presumably there's some way to turn off protection of a particular file without turning the protection off entirely; otherwise, this is just like System Integrity Protection, with "turn off protection of a particular file" being done by turning its "restricted" flag:
with
on the file, which you could do on OS X only when System Integrity Protection turned off.
How dare you fight against Apple's supreme power and use your machine to do that?
Because Apple helpfully told me how to do it.
The exploit is about a GUI program that invokes git, not using git from the command line.
The exploit is about the git program. The only difference between the GUI program running it and running it directly from the command line is that you can set $PATH so that the command git would run a newer version from /usr/local/bin or ~/bin or wherever, whereas that's more difficult or even impossible to do so from, for example, Xcode.
And, in any case, if your grandmother uses Git from Xcode, and would otherwise be capable of replacing /usr/bin/git, she might not find the extra steps described in Apple's document too problematic, so the "I'll get my grandmother on that." comment was extremely idiotic.
Apple thinks the users of their products are too stupid to handle root account.
If you mean "Apple makes it hard to log in as root", true, but so what? About the only OS into which I log in as root these days is Solaris 10, and that's because they don't let you do a clean shutdown of the system as an ordinary user (unless I've missed something) - I use sudo or su in those cases where I need to do stuff as root.
What makes Apple think their users understand SIP?
Most of their users neither understand it nor need to understand it.
Some of their users do need to understand it, and can understand it; that article is published for them.
I'll get my grandmother on that.
If your grandmother uses Git from the command line on her Mac, and would otherwise be capable of replacing /usr/bin/git, she might not find the extra steps described in Apple's document too problematic.
First, you turn off System Integrity Protection by following the directions on Apple's Configuring System Integrity Protection page.
Then, you replace it (or any other program you want, including /System/Library/Kernels/kernel).
Then, if you want, you turn System Integrity Protection back on.
Except your cellphone is voip too.
Only if either 1) it's LTE and VoLTE or 2) you're using a VoIP application rather than the "built-in" cellular phone service; the "built-in" cellular phone service is digital, but circuit-switched and not running over IP.
There's "cable" as in "the cable TV industry", there's "cable" as in "the programming on your cable TV connection that doesn't travel over DOCSIS", and there's "cable" as in "the communications infrastructure of the cable TV industry".
Given "There is no point in having completely separate network for watching video and another one for all other information.", I suspect the person to whom you're replying meant "cable" as in "the programming on your cable TV connection that doesn't travel over DOCSIS", i.e. "why doesn't the cable TV industry provide only IP to the home and run their programming over that"?
It sounds, from "cable (in your walls)", as if you're talking about "cable" as in "the communications infrastructure of the cable TV industry", and, in particular, the customer premises part of that infrastructure. In that case, what MoCA proves is that, with MoCA 2.5, you can get "up to 2.5 Gbps actual data rates". Is that really "VASTLY greater bandwidth capacity" than gigabit Ethernet?
Unlike many programming languages, Rust never sleeps. I think someone proposed a sleep() function but he was given a Torvalds-style tongue lashing on the mailing list.
Bear in mind that there's more to the picture than meets the eye.
(But what does that have to do with Country Life butter?)
I know that in the 90s at a class reunion one of my friends mentioned they had PDP computers in Onizuka Air Force base (the blue cube).
Mentec were developing new PDP-11-compatible processors in the 1990s, so there may well have been PDP-11s in there. (These days, if you still need to run PDP-11 software, it's probably on an x86 box running a simulator, with, if necessary, specialized hardware plugged in to handle peripheral buses of that era.)
I've got boxes of vacuum tubes that could be available for the right price.
Even if they were still running the old System/360-based 9020s (which they aren't - they're 3 or more generations beyond that), they wouldn't be using vacuum tubes in the CPU. Maybe the 9020 power supplies, or the displays, used them (other than the CRT itself), but even that might be unlikely.