Until these innovators can design a computer that can tell the difference between data and code and don't execute code downloaded over the Internet, then such solutions are just so much snake oil.
@Anonymous Coward: "You know what's sad? This board. Take a look, people are getting six ways bent out of shape over nothing."
No, what's funny is that this is even an issue and that Mozilla had to consult a feminist from the 'North American culture-sphere' before allocating a three letter file extension.
@Anonymous Coward: "A couple of Google engineers thought it would be funny to name their new compression type ".bro", it was an arbitrary name. Then a (male) Mozilla engineer talked them out of it (wisely IMO)."
No, there was no joke intended, not being from North America the google engineer was indifferent to the cultural meaning of 'bro'.
"bro is short for brotli -- there are no hidden meanings in it"
"I have asked a feminist friend from the North American culture-sphere, and she advised against bro. We have found a compromise that satisfies us, so we don't need to discuss this further. Even if we don't understand why people are upset from our cultural standpoint, they would be (unnecessarily) upset and this is enough reason not to use it."
Yet another example of political-correctness gone insane. People are not upset, some SJWarrier decides to be insulted by 'bro' and therefore it must be changed. Anyone who says different is a misogynist. Enough of the PC bullshit already. If some people decide to be insulted by some aspect of contemporary culture then that's their prerogative. It's got nothing to do with me, I am under no compulsion to adjust my behaviour or opinions to suit them.
"Four women alleged that Marcy repeatedly engaged in inappropriate physical behavior with students, including unwanted massages, kisses, and groping. As a result of the findings, the women were informed, Marcy has been given 'clear expectations concerning his future interactions with students,' which he must follow or risk 'sanctions that could include suspension or dismissal.''"
And once upon a time, a) that wouldn't be an issue for the facilty, b) the women would have been expected to deal with it themselves like mature adults, c) instead of trashing his reputation in public, threatening his livehood and bringing controversy to UC Berkeley. If I could hazard a guess, this was a put-up job by the resident feministas.
"Ruth Murray-Clay.. in her capacity as student representative to the Berkeley astronomy faculty, she says, she spoke with him several times in December 2004, directly confronting him with complaints from undergrads and graduate students." ref
"when he was a young, boyish looking professor at Cornell, Feynman used to pretend to be a student so he could ask undergraduate women out.. Feynman.. trying to get women in bars to sleep with him.. documented affairs with two married women"
Have these fragile flowers ever thought of saying no to sexual advances. What Feynman does/did with his dick - as long as it's between consenting adults - is nobody's business except his.
"It's not surprising to find these anecdotes disturbing and even offensive"
Well then, don't read about them.
"the propensity to lie on the beach and watch girls"
OH, shock horror !
"actions.. that were considered acceptable or amusing in 1950 would quite rightly cause instant outrage in 2014."
No they wouldn't, it's just that the political-correctness-feminista dictatorship would try and get you fired if you say any different.
'Intel developer Sarah Sharp's challenge to Linux creator Linus Torvalds on the kernel mailing list, asking him to stop abusing and cursing at developers, appears to have been carefully planned' itwire.com
Design a MMU so that one process cannot walk all over the memory belonging to another process. Design a MMU where read-only, data and executable really mean: read-only, data and executable.
Current economic theory could well substitute for some primitive magical cult. Hence such monstrosities such as the Black–Scholes model (a rehashed nuclear physics formula). The magic formula that caused the global economic meltdown. You might as well wave a dead chicken at your Quotron/Bloomberg terminal.
"The way we have come up with to get around this is to.. get the binary signed by Microsoft." ref
This has to be the second most dumbest idea a kernel developers ever came up with. And forking the kernel has to be the most dumbest idea a kernel developers ever came up with.
"We present for the first time a comparative analysis of blood and organ system data from trials with rats fed three main commercialized genetically modified (GM) maize (NK 603, MON 810, MON 863), which are present in food and feed in the world" ref
The TPP isn't a free trade agreement. What it does do is give corporations pre-eminence over nation states and the right to sue in secret courts, if the states are deemed to have adversely affect the earnings of the said corporations. Similarly to how Canada was sued under NAFTA by a private company for trying to build a second bridge over the Detroit River. Canada's chief crime being the attempt at protecting the environment and the health of Canadians. So we can all stop the pretence that our governments actually represent the interests of the citizens.
If a male developer was subject to perceived verbal abuse, he would have taken it up with the individuals in private. If a female developer perceives same, she can't wait to blast it out to the sisterhood. Who can find nothing better to do than attend tech conferences desperately in search of sexual harassment they can write about. If she had any common sense she would have paused before bring controversy to the LKML. Sometimes you would wish that certain people weren't on your side.
Torvalds tried to take the conversation private, Sharp choose to make it public again..
"The argument over whether such language is appropriate then moved off-list, with Torvalds trying to make the conversation private and Sharp making it public again. "Oh, FFS, I [was] just called out on private email for 'playing the victim card,'" arstechnica.com
"I'm *also* not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords" Torvalds
“Don’t be evil.” Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But “Don’t be evil” is much more than that. Yes, it’s about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services that we can. But it’s also about doing the right thing more generally – following the law, acting honorably and treating each other with respect ref.
@Anonymous Coward: "Using GPLv3 will all but ensure no corporate/enterprise support, thus leaving the older, less useful formats in place. Sometimes zealots get in their own way..."
"Frustrated by adversaries continued success at circumventing or defeating cyber defense and monitoring technologies, DARPA is looking to fund new approaches"
"T-Mobile's Credit Partner, Experian, has been breached revealing names, addresses, Social Security numbers, birth dates and driver's license and passport numbers"
What I want to know is - in this day and age - what this data was doing on a server, connected to the Internet in an unencrypted form.
Panopticon: noun: a building, as a prison, hospital, library, or the like, so arranged that all parts of the interior are visible from a single point. ref
Slashdot Mirror
Until these innovators can design a computer that can tell the difference between data and code and don't execute code downloaded over the Internet, then such solutions are just so much snake oil.
@Anonymous Coward: "You know what's sad? This board. Take a look, people are getting six ways bent out of shape over nothing."
No, what's funny is that this is even an issue and that Mozilla had to consult a feminist from the 'North American culture-sphere' before allocating a three letter file extension.
@Anonymous Coward: "A couple of Google engineers thought it would be funny to name their new compression type ".bro", it was an arbitrary name. Then a (male) Mozilla engineer talked them out of it (wisely IMO)."
No, there was no joke intended, not being from North America the google engineer was indifferent to the cultural meaning of 'bro'.
Jyrki Alakuijala 2015-10-10 04:10:46 PDT
"bro is short for brotli -- there are no hidden meanings in it"
"I have asked a feminist friend from the North American culture-sphere, and she advised against bro. We have found a compromise that satisfies us, so we don't need to discuss this further. Even if we don't understand why people are upset from our cultural standpoint, they would be (unnecessarily) upset and this is enough reason not to use it."
Yet another example of political-correctness gone insane. People are not upset, some SJWarrier decides to be insulted by 'bro' and therefore it must be changed. Anyone who says different is a misogynist. Enough of the PC bullshit already. If some people decide to be insulted by some aspect of contemporary culture then that's their prerogative. It's got nothing to do with me, I am under no compulsion to adjust my behaviour or opinions to suit them.
"Four women alleged that Marcy repeatedly engaged in inappropriate physical behavior with students, including unwanted massages, kisses, and groping. As a result of the findings, the women were informed, Marcy has been given 'clear expectations concerning his future interactions with students,' which he must follow or risk 'sanctions that could include suspension or dismissal.''"
.. in her capacity as student representative to the Berkeley astronomy faculty, she says, she spoke with him several times in December 2004, directly confronting him with complaints from undergrads and graduate students." ref
And once upon a time, a) that wouldn't be an issue for the facilty, b) the women would have been expected to deal with it themselves like mature adults, c) instead of trashing his reputation in public, threatening his livehood and bringing controversy to UC Berkeley. If I could hazard a guess, this was a put-up job by the resident feministas.
"Ruth Murray-Clay
"when he was a young, boyish looking professor at Cornell, Feynman used to pretend to be a student so he could ask undergraduate women out .. Feynman .. trying to get women in bars to sleep with him .. documented affairs with two married women"
.. that were considered acceptable or amusing in 1950 would quite rightly cause instant outrage in 2014."
Have these fragile flowers ever thought of saying no to sexual advances. What Feynman does/did with his dick - as long as it's between consenting adults - is nobody's business except his.
"It's not surprising to find these anecdotes disturbing and even offensive"
Well then, don't read about them.
"the propensity to lie on the beach and watch girls"
OH, shock horror !
"actions
No they wouldn't, it's just that the political-correctness-feminista dictatorship would try and get you fired if you say any different.
Richard Feynman, sexism and changing perceptions of a scientific icon
'Intel developer Sarah Sharp's challenge to Linux creator Linus Torvalds on the kernel mailing list, asking him to stop abusing and cursing at developers, appears to have been carefully planned' itwire.com
Design a MMU so that one process cannot walk all over the memory belonging to another process. Design a MMU where read-only, data and executable really mean: read-only, data and executable.
Current economic theory could well substitute for some primitive magical cult. Hence such monstrosities such as the Black–Scholes model (a rehashed nuclear physics formula). The magic formula that caused the global economic meltdown. You might as well wave a dead chicken at your Quotron/Bloomberg terminal.
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
Erasing isn't enough, you have to overwrite the file system with random data ..
"The way we have come up with to get around this is to .. get the binary signed by Microsoft." ref
This has to be the second most dumbest idea a kernel developers ever came up with. And forking the kernel has to be the most dumbest idea a kernel developers ever came up with.
"We present for the first time a comparative analysis of blood and organ system data from trials with rats fed three main commercialized genetically modified (GM) maize (NK 603, MON 810, MON 863), which are present in food and feed in the world" ref
The TPP isn't a free trade agreement. What it does do is give corporations pre-eminence over nation states and the right to sue in secret courts, if the states are deemed to have adversely affect the earnings of the said corporations. Similarly to how Canada was sued under NAFTA by a private company for trying to build a second bridge over the Detroit River. Canada's chief crime being the attempt at protecting the environment and the health of Canadians. So we can all stop the pretence that our governments actually represent the interests of the citizens.
Why you should care about the TPP
If a male developer was subject to perceived verbal abuse, he would have taken it up with the individuals in private. If a female developer perceives same, she can't wait to blast it out to the sisterhood. Who can find nothing better to do than attend tech conferences desperately in search of sexual harassment they can write about. If she had any common sense she would have paused before bring controversy to the LKML. Sometimes you would wish that certain people weren't on your side.
Linux kernel civility discussion
Torvalds tried to take the conversation private, Sharp choose to make it public again ..
"The argument over whether such language is appropriate then moved off-list, with Torvalds trying to make the conversation private and Sharp making it public again. "Oh, FFS, I [was] just called out on private email for 'playing the victim card,'" arstechnica.com
"I'm *also* not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords" Torvalds
“Don’t be evil.” Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But “Don’t be evil” is much more than that. Yes, it’s about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services that we can. But it’s also about doing the right thing more generally – following the law, acting honorably and treating each other with respect ref.
LibreOffice Fresh
Considering the current version is fully patched, I don't understand how you would spin this into Samsung not patching kernel vulnerabilities.
"Samsung has decided to patch, but only for recent devices running Android Lollipop, and not for those with Jelly Bean or KitKat."
Who wrote the software and who told him to write the software?
@Anonymous Coward: "Using GPLv3 will all but ensure no corporate/enterprise support, thus leaving the older, less useful formats in place. Sometimes zealots get in their own way..."
Can GPL licenced software be used in corporate environments?
@sexconker: "Carly may have outfoxed of by Apple's late leader/"
..
'Why do you even post things anymore, timothy?'
I do wonder that myself, especially consider what isn't chosen from Slashdot Recent
"Frustrated by adversaries continued success at circumventing or defeating cyber defense and monitoring technologies, DARPA is looking to fund new approaches"
This is ironic considering DARPA designed TCP/IP
"On the Traffic and Chaos Teams at Netflix, our mission requires that we have a holistic understanding of our complex microservice architecture." ref
"T-Mobile's Credit Partner, Experian, has been breached revealing names, addresses, Social Security numbers, birth dates and driver's license and passport numbers"
What I want to know is - in this day and age - what this data was doing on a server, connected to the Internet in an unencrypted form.
Sky Muster Satellite Launch
Panopticon: noun: a building, as a prison, hospital, library, or the like, so arranged that all parts of the interior are visible from a single point. ref