Ran an update, a bunch of packages are now in a weird dependency loop with systemd fingered as the culprit.
I could solve it, but I'm not paid to give a shit about systemd, so when I get some time I'm just going to replace the instance with CentOS-derived (but systemd lacking) Amazon Linux -- it's the first time I've ever chosen to move a machine off Debian. A decision I'll be making... about as many times as I have Debian machines left. Failure has consequences; better luck next distro, I guess.
systemd is designed to prevent duplicated boilerplate in init scripts -- but it won't support arbitrary verbs in its init scripts so best practice is to put those functions in auxiliary scripts elsewhere. Which will mean you have to duplicate long sets of the same functionality in both places. Yay for systemd!
systemd is designed to minimize how long you spend booting. Given how often I reboot, if systemd costs me even one more minute to deal with over the course of a year, systemd has actively failed to save me time.
systemd brings binary logging to Linux, which is good because I was talking to Nobody Ever, and Mr. Ever had a lot to say about how big a help the Windows Event Viewer is in sorting out issues.
I guess Debian was a great thing to learn Unix on and I'll really miss it.
Additionally, if I think that *AA studies vastly overstate the effects of 'piracy' or that the awards given by some lawsuits are excessive and well beyond the damage done, it doesn't mean that I condone infringement.
I do... or rather, I don't recognize the concept of infringement. Copyright is *For Limited Times*, a balance between my interests and the interest of the creators. What we've got isn't balanced and isn't limited, and I haven't signed on to it. I could still be robbed or imprisoned if I'm caught violating it, but it doesn't merit the respect or deference a *law* does, merely the wary acknowledgement that a tool of your enemies can harm you.
If you don't like that, go come up with some real laws instead of jawing about "theft". I was guaranteed created works would enter the public domain -- what we have is theft from *me*.
(I suppose that in a country with sensible copyrights what this guy did was pretty douchey. But that isn't here.)
Quite easily. All you need is one simple change -- decouple enforcement from revenue.
If I get a ticket because some worthless hamlet dropped the speed limit 10mph to rake in the dough? That's... that's just not acceptable. If I get a ticket because the officer feels that writing me a ticket is the best possible use of his limited time, that's sort of a different story, now innit? And if that municipality is running the cameras as an expense, I'd be more inclined to think that maybe the cameras are doing something useful if they feel that strongly about it.
I'd have a lot more respect for local governments if they just burned whatever fines they collected. Don't turn it over to the state or federal level, that still puts you in quota-land. Just erase it.
(Some people would say that this would mean higher taxes. This is of course incorrect; you would simple pay more money when your taxes are due and less money at all the other times cash is extracted from you for the municipality's profit.)
I might, actually. It's not the sort of thing I'd notice -- one or two feeds dropping one or two entries isn't something I could detect -- but I've had trouble with Pipes not giving new data before, especially while I was developing my filters.
Well, I just use Google Reader, and Yahoo Pipes to massage the feed a little. Google Reader can't really filter the way I'd like -- Pipes is a really innovative interface.
... of doing a goddamn crossword again. My *shortcuts* have shortcuts to Google. How the hell am I supposed to resist the sum total of all human knowledge when I'm stuck with "42D: 1972 Red Sox shortstop (8 letters)" and all I've got is a tentative P crossing through the second space?
I've never used AdBlock — I just use NoScript. I'm not blocking based on content, I'm just enforcing tighter security on my computer.
It cleanly kneecaps admonger arguments — static ads (I also disable animated gifs) and text ads display just fine, but you don't have my permission to run Flash, Java, or JavaScript on my system. And strangely enough, NoScript's control is finely-grained enough to give a site general permission to execute content without also granting access to skeevyads.cx and other bastions of consumer rights.
(And I'd use NoScript even if it did none of those things, because the act of *not loading a PDF by default* has saved me hours and hours of dodging lockups and crashes.)
Voting and legislating according to the guidelines set forth in *Leviticus* is not a harmless individual eccentricity and I see no reason to treat it as one. These people have GUNS.
(Would be nice if they honored the First, Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Amendments with the same fervor as the Second.)
Well, it's not that I'm unwilling to do so, and your assessment of FreeRepublic is both correct and not news to me, but I just... don't know where to find one.
I'm pretty sure Slashdot itself has the highest percentage of non-insane libertarians on the web.
I didn't say I expected them to be better. I've got *hopes* -- Obama might well be able to deliver. I'd be delighted if it happens. But I talked about changing the *Republican* party to better suit me.
The keyboard commandos at FreeRepublic are trying to psych each other into doing it right now.
Lots of whining about Marxism and how "they" are coming for us, with a liberal dash of racism and lots of allusions to the "tree of liberty" and those fluids most favorable to its growth.
I've voted Libertarian in the two elections prior to this one; I live in Texas, so it's not like non-Republican votes count anyways.
This year? The best way to advance the libertarian agenda? I voted for the Democrat. Straight ticket, in fact.
Torture? Indefinite detention? This is how we do things in America, is it?
Here's the whole thing in a nutshell -- I can win an argument about money. I can't win an argument about what God told you to do, and I'm mad that I have to even try. "God says it's the right thing to do" caused all this garbage. The proper response to 9/11 was $500 in cabin door locks and a *memo to the pilots* explaining how certain critical assumptions we made were flawed. Everything else is exactly what the American-educated bin Laden expected and in fact desired. Mission accomplished, O spiritual warrior. And the Republican party as a whole gets tarred with this brush because they didn't step up to defend the Constitution of our nation.
I've deliberately done what I can to force the Republican Party to fracture and squeeze out either the godnuts or the socially liberal. Then maybe I can vote for economic conservatism without lumping it in with votes for totemic spirits. I'll deal with four or eight years of bad financial decisions because even if the far right wingnuts are correct, I'd STILL rather starve than torture and kill for Jesus.
(So far I've been (apparently) banned on RedState and been banned on FreeRepublic. You'd think they'd be more sensitive to Constitutional issues, especially among people historically voting libertarian.)
I have no idea if you're right or not, but it's not like the tax codes are hidden, and if you're standing/here/ then you've probably got the acumen necessary to compile an answer.
Start with what I'd pay with your take-home on a 1040 and get more exotic if your tax situation involves a lot of deductions or credits.
Hmm. I'm considering the way my boss uses email -- he's got a very, very large array of folders, and he categorizes each message so he can find it later. I do the same thing, but on a smaller scale, since I trust my ability to find it by keyword.
A tagging interface/presented/ as a set of file folders might be very effective. Being able to drag a message into three different "folders"... hmm.
The most recent NoScript upgrades have done good work with the Untrusted lists -- you can make most decisions permanent from the icon menu, now. I've never needed more than fifteen seconds to get any site working -- even the crazy blogs with six adservers, three tracking services, and four types of embedded media.
But even if it was more trouble, I'd still use it. Remember, NoScript is message-agnostic -- it's not an adblocker by any means, it just limits the services your computer will make available to websites. You're still able to display a banner or text ad, to someone running NoScript; I'm not blocking ads, I'm just not allowing Flash to run by default.
So to my mind, NoScript serves the internet better than AdBlocker. If there were/no/ ads, pages would start to vanish; I don't take any steps to block ads, but I do protect my computer from historically insecure third-party plugins.
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Ran an update, a bunch of packages are now in a weird dependency loop with systemd fingered as the culprit.
I could solve it, but I'm not paid to give a shit about systemd, so when I get some time I'm just going to replace the instance with CentOS-derived (but systemd lacking) Amazon Linux -- it's the first time I've ever chosen to move a machine off Debian. A decision I'll be making... about as many times as I have Debian machines left. Failure has consequences; better luck next distro, I guess.
systemd is designed to prevent duplicated boilerplate in init scripts -- but it won't support arbitrary verbs in its init scripts so best practice is to put those functions in auxiliary scripts elsewhere. Which will mean you have to duplicate long sets of the same functionality in both places. Yay for systemd!
systemd is designed to minimize how long you spend booting. Given how often I reboot, if systemd costs me even one more minute to deal with over the course of a year, systemd has actively failed to save me time.
systemd brings binary logging to Linux, which is good because I was talking to Nobody Ever, and Mr. Ever had a lot to say about how big a help the Windows Event Viewer is in sorting out issues.
I guess Debian was a great thing to learn Unix on and I'll really miss it.
I do... or rather, I don't recognize the concept of infringement. Copyright is *For Limited Times*, a balance between my interests and the interest of the creators. What we've got isn't balanced and isn't limited, and I haven't signed on to it. I could still be robbed or imprisoned if I'm caught violating it, but it doesn't merit the respect or deference a *law* does, merely the wary acknowledgement that a tool of your enemies can harm you.
If you don't like that, go come up with some real laws instead of jawing about "theft". I was guaranteed created works would enter the public domain -- what we have is theft from *me*.
(I suppose that in a country with sensible copyrights what this guy did was pretty douchey. But that isn't here.)
Quite easily. All you need is one simple change -- decouple enforcement from revenue.
If I get a ticket because some worthless hamlet dropped the speed limit 10mph to rake in the dough? That's... that's just not acceptable. If I get a ticket because the officer feels that writing me a ticket is the best possible use of his limited time, that's sort of a different story, now innit? And if that municipality is running the cameras as an expense, I'd be more inclined to think that maybe the cameras are doing something useful if they feel that strongly about it.
I'd have a lot more respect for local governments if they just burned whatever fines they collected. Don't turn it over to the state or federal level, that still puts you in quota-land. Just erase it.
(Some people would say that this would mean higher taxes. This is of course incorrect; you would simple pay more money when your taxes are due and less money at all the other times cash is extracted from you for the municipality's profit.)
I might, actually. It's not the sort of thing I'd notice -- one or two feeds dropping one or two entries isn't something I could detect -- but I've had trouble with Pipes not giving new data before, especially while I was developing my filters.
Well, I just use Google Reader, and Yahoo Pipes to massage the feed a little. Google Reader can't really filter the way I'd like -- Pipes is a really innovative interface.
Oh, never mind. Huh.
I'll leave the filter up anyways.
If it started with "Roland Whatshisface writes" I missed it for a very good reason. I don't suppose you've got a link to that article handy?
I use a Yahoo Pipe to filter the Slashdot RSS feed -- Idle and the amazing Roland are stripped. If I'm reading this, it wasn't in Idle.
I can't really complain if I clicked on the link and posted a comment... that said, I want this Cracked list off my lawn.
... of doing a goddamn crossword again. My *shortcuts* have shortcuts to Google. How the hell am I supposed to resist the sum total of all human knowledge when I'm stuck with "42D: 1972 Red Sox shortstop (8 letters)" and all I've got is a tentative P crossing through the second space?
No. Have you?
A young man?
I've never used AdBlock — I just use NoScript. I'm not blocking based on content, I'm just enforcing tighter security on my computer.
It cleanly kneecaps admonger arguments — static ads (I also disable animated gifs) and text ads display just fine, but you don't have my permission to run Flash, Java, or JavaScript on my system. And strangely enough, NoScript's control is finely-grained enough to give a site general permission to execute content without also granting access to skeevyads.cx and other bastions of consumer rights.
(And I'd use NoScript even if it did none of those things, because the act of *not loading a PDF by default* has saved me hours and hours of dodging lockups and crashes.)
ACs, as a general rule, should not attempt to dictate fact without citeable proof.
Thanks.
Alright, you. I use this phrase vary sparingly -- but, I did indeed Laugh Out Loud. So there you go.
Vowels are worth nothing.
Consonants are worth $500.
Voting and legislating according to the guidelines set forth in *Leviticus* is not a harmless individual eccentricity and I see no reason to treat it as one. These people have GUNS.
(Would be nice if they honored the First, Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Amendments with the same fervor as the Second.)
Well, it's not that I'm unwilling to do so, and your assessment of FreeRepublic is both correct and not news to me, but I just... don't know where to find one.
I'm pretty sure Slashdot itself has the highest percentage of non-insane libertarians on the web.
I didn't say I expected them to be better. I've got *hopes* -- Obama might well be able to deliver. I'd be delighted if it happens. But I talked about changing the *Republican* party to better suit me.
The keyboard commandos at FreeRepublic are trying to psych each other into doing it right now.
Lots of whining about Marxism and how "they" are coming for us, with a liberal dash of racism and lots of allusions to the "tree of liberty" and those fluids most favorable to its growth.
I've voted Libertarian in the two elections prior to this one; I live in Texas, so it's not like non-Republican votes count anyways.
This year? The best way to advance the libertarian agenda? I voted for the Democrat. Straight ticket, in fact.
Torture? Indefinite detention? This is how we do things in America, is it?
Here's the whole thing in a nutshell -- I can win an argument about money. I can't win an argument about what God told you to do, and I'm mad that I have to even try. "God says it's the right thing to do" caused all this garbage. The proper response to 9/11 was $500 in cabin door locks and a *memo to the pilots* explaining how certain critical assumptions we made were flawed. Everything else is exactly what the American-educated bin Laden expected and in fact desired. Mission accomplished, O spiritual warrior. And the Republican party as a whole gets tarred with this brush because they didn't step up to defend the Constitution of our nation.
I've deliberately done what I can to force the Republican Party to fracture and squeeze out either the godnuts or the socially liberal. Then maybe I can vote for economic conservatism without lumping it in with votes for totemic spirits. I'll deal with four or eight years of bad financial decisions because even if the far right wingnuts are correct, I'd STILL rather starve than torture and kill for Jesus.
(So far I've been (apparently) banned on RedState and been banned on FreeRepublic. You'd think they'd be more sensitive to Constitutional issues, especially among people historically voting libertarian.)
If I'm to understand you properly, you want the internet to be more trucklike, because the tubes are too long.
Why wonder?
I have no idea if you're right or not, but it's not like the tax codes are hidden, and if you're standing /here/ then you've probably got the acumen necessary to compile an answer.
Start with what I'd pay with your take-home on a 1040 and get more exotic if your tax situation involves a lot of deductions or credits.
Hmm. I'm considering the way my boss uses email -- he's got a very, very large array of folders, and he categorizes each message so he can find it later. I do the same thing, but on a smaller scale, since I trust my ability to find it by keyword.
A tagging interface /presented/ as a set of file folders might be very effective. Being able to drag a message into three different "folders"... hmm.
The most recent NoScript upgrades have done good work with the Untrusted lists -- you can make most decisions permanent from the icon menu, now. I've never needed more than fifteen seconds to get any site working -- even the crazy blogs with six adservers, three tracking services, and four types of embedded media.
But even if it was more trouble, I'd still use it. Remember, NoScript is message-agnostic -- it's not an adblocker by any means, it just limits the services your computer will make available to websites. You're still able to display a banner or text ad, to someone running NoScript; I'm not blocking ads, I'm just not allowing Flash to run by default.
So to my mind, NoScript serves the internet better than AdBlocker. If there were /no/ ads, pages would start to vanish; I don't take any steps to block ads, but I do protect my computer from historically insecure third-party plugins.