I fail to understand the reasoning for choice as well.
I think I get this.
One example: I have a handful of shell and perl scripts that I use to manage virtual machine interdependencies at startup time - this vm needs to be listening on this port before I can think about starting this other vm, etc. and I express that in a JSON tree for configuration.
I've recently been noticing that the dependency "engine" is a bit buggy and also duplicates much of what systemd already provides (pre-dating it by some years), so I'm going to look at making it work with systemd instead and cutting out a bunch of the code. That also gets me pretty easy dependency tracking on various filesystem mounts, network status, etc., so it could be better than 'sleep 20' in some spots.
Now, if I wanted to offer that up to the community, somebody could choose to package that into Debian. Assuming my experiment works, systemd would be a hard requirement to use this particular system.
Somebody in the Debian community proposed that for this package to be accepted I would also have to [re]write another dependency engine and support that. I can't see doing that if the systemd approach works.
Does it make sense that people who don't want to run systemd (which is fine) also can't impose additional work on developers who do want to use systemd?
in a nice posh fortune 500 org where such resources are available to HIM
In many cases this can be true, but consider a case where there's a zero-day in the MS TLS implementation. The only possible thing that can be done here is to have a pre-existing TLS interception mechanism deployed (local CA root on workstations with on-the-fly cert regeneration on the proxy) and have that be on a non-MS platform.
Even if that's a good idea, many F500 companies won't have that deployed, much less the F50000.
There are some situations where not only is extensive testing not possible, it's the stupid decision. I realize many corp-o-drones have CYA policies to hide behind while they make bad decisions, but I still would not want to be the guy who followed policy and got his internal network completely infested.
Since XP and 2003 usually go together. I didn't find a technical discussion link on the advisory but if this is the buffer overflow in the TLS library that has been making the rounds recently, this could be the one that finally kills the XP machines on the 'net.
Unless Microsoft backpedals again and enables the XP holdouts for a while longer.
If you roll out your patches the moment they come in, you are a retard... do you enjoy running around like a headless chicken when theres a compatibility conflict?
If only security were so binary - in the real world it's a constant process of risk/reward calculations.
Is this the vulnerability the boards have been buzzing about that gives a remote code exploit by merely visiting a malicious TLS server? If so, having all your end-user machines pwned inside the firewall is not better than the risk of a compatibility conflict. One cripples an organization, the other, at worst, breaks one app.
Have they been learning from the politicians and lobbyists?
Of course - who do you think has been attacking them for the past couple years? Now, they will say that Uber started it by threatening their 17th-Century business model of cartels and thugs, but only one actor is holding the guns.
There's an outside chance that some journalists 'investigating' Uber full-time are completely independent and not colluding with the thugs, but let's not be naieve about how the government-media complex operates.
That said, this dope from Uber should just shut up about it, and they should uncover those ties, not the personal foibles of the opposition (if for no other reason than that nobody cares).
There are DAMN good reason to keep your mail server on premises be it home or business, if you don't understand why you might want to educate yourself before giving advice.
Correct. Get a $0.99/mo VPS, set up OpenVPN, and relay out over that connection.
I would donate to MoFo much more frequently if I could direct those donations to specific projects. Electrolysis has been on the list for years, but things like FirefoxOS get the funding. And yes, I realize electrolysis got its legs on Fennec, but it could have been completed work a decade ago with the right funding allocation (bugs date from 2001 at least). There would have been less room for Chrome if it had been done, so it really does rise to the level of misallocation.
The GNOME guys have worked hard to ensure that their UI is only useful on tablets. Now along comes Groupon (aka the Hindu god of small business destruction) wanting to put out a tablet by the same name.
Based upon my twenty years experience with linux desktops, I can safely say that GNOME is no longer useful as a desktop environment and is exclusively focused on tablets now. They can show this post to their judge as my contribution.
yes, they would kick out people paying them lots of money to get in. There certainly is no incentive in a pure capitalist university to keep rich well paying people enrolled.
Correct - aggregate reputation is more valuable than individual tuition payments. It's simply a matter of maximizing value. Western universities kick out tuituion-paying students all the time, for many reasons.
That would imply that the university would also be honest.
It doesn't have to be intellectually honest (my god, saying this about a "university"). It can merely value the increased revenue (assign bonus targets if greed is the only available motivator). Though we ought to hope for more.
Did you know that in America most private schools are worse at educating students than public schools?
This article isn't about America - corruption, violence and bribery isn't how grades are determined here. India has different problems and requires different solutions.
Are you aware of the self-organization of private schools in India (and other poor countries) that parents prefer? Even very poor parents find a way to pay for their children to avoid the government schools there (the schools are very cheap by Western standards).
Have you heard Malala Yousafzai talk about government schools in the region? It's a disaster from top to bottom.
this is why university degrees from India are about as valuable as a high school diploma in the U.S.
Prime Minister Modi's approach is different. He's trying to change things. There is a new regulation system for higher education. Funding for universities increased by about a fifth in the most recent Five Year Plan from central government.
Are these public universities? Because a private university would have a strong incentive to catch and remove cheaters so that the value of their degrees are not diminished. There are no "rights" when you agree to abide by a student Code of Conduct, there is an agreement with pre-ordained consequences for both parties (at least outside a government apparatus).
The Universities that confer meaningful degrees would obviously place graduates more ably and thus command higher tuition - the incentives seems to be aligned for the university. Individuals would still be incentivized to accept bribes, but the universities should see those administrators as costing them tuition dollars by sullying their reputation.
Careful... as soon as you imply that the income tax is a contributing factor to childhood obesity, a singularity forms and obligate statists lose coherence.
I can't think of any impediments I have to uploading more video to Facebook right now. If I wanted to upload more videos I'd upload more videos, but they don't usually make sense where text, stills, or links do.
So Mark must be betting that they'll make sense in five years when they don't now - I wonder what his reasoning could possibly be.
I hope he doesn't mean that people will be video recording their status updates. There's a reason many people call it "Dumpbook" - the tile wall in the background is sort of a giveaway.
There is ALWAYS the question "but what caused THAT?"
Causation implies action and result, a before and after. Those concepts are a function of time, which didn't exist before the universe.
It's like asking what the length and width of the universe were at the singularity - the question doesn't have meaning even though our reptile brains insist that time is always present (which is tremendously useful for hunting crickets, so no flags down).
People are quick to yell "games" as if the entire desktop hasn't been 3D-accelerated for a decade.
In many cases if a chip can be done 30% faster, not only is the user happy with the visuals, but that silicon can enter low-power mode more quickly. A laptop user might get a few more minutes' battery life with this bit on and the world might burn a few less tons of coal for all of the systems.
The idea of imaginary property is so frail that it needs massive legal edifices erected around it, and those create security risks for both person and real property.
But, ya know, profits above all, right? Let's get some of that back to the campaigns, eh?
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I fail to understand the reasoning for choice as well.
I think I get this.
One example: I have a handful of shell and perl scripts that I use to manage virtual machine interdependencies at startup time - this vm needs to be listening on this port before I can think about starting this other vm, etc. and I express that in a JSON tree for configuration.
I've recently been noticing that the dependency "engine" is a bit buggy and also duplicates much of what systemd already provides (pre-dating it by some years), so I'm going to look at making it work with systemd instead and cutting out a bunch of the code. That also gets me pretty easy dependency tracking on various filesystem mounts, network status, etc., so it could be better than 'sleep 20' in some spots.
Now, if I wanted to offer that up to the community, somebody could choose to package that into Debian. Assuming my experiment works, systemd would be a hard requirement to use this particular system.
Somebody in the Debian community proposed that for this package to be accepted I would also have to [re]write another dependency engine and support that. I can't see doing that if the systemd approach works.
Does it make sense that people who don't want to run systemd (which is fine) also can't impose additional work on developers who do want to use systemd?
especially since storing the bitcoin keys can't really be seen as presenting any sort of hardship to them
I would have just guessed that Lockheed Services is charging them $400K/mo to store them.
I was going to say $40K/mo, but you know, the first rule of government contracting.
in a nice posh fortune 500 org where such resources are available to HIM
In many cases this can be true, but consider a case where there's a zero-day in the MS TLS implementation. The only possible thing that can be done here is to have a pre-existing TLS interception mechanism deployed (local CA root on workstations with on-the-fly cert regeneration on the proxy) and have that be on a non-MS platform.
Even if that's a good idea, many F500 companies won't have that deployed, much less the F50000.
There are some situations where not only is extensive testing not possible, it's the stupid decision. I realize many corp-o-drones have CYA policies to hide behind while they make bad decisions, but I still would not want to be the guy who followed policy and got his internal network completely infested.
Since XP and 2003 usually go together. I didn't find a technical discussion link on the advisory but if this is the buffer overflow in the TLS library that has been making the rounds recently, this could be the one that finally kills the XP machines on the 'net.
Unless Microsoft backpedals again and enables the XP holdouts for a while longer.
If you roll out your patches the moment they come in, you are a retard ... do you enjoy running around like a headless chicken when theres a compatibility conflict?
If only security were so binary - in the real world it's a constant process of risk/reward calculations.
Is this the vulnerability the boards have been buzzing about that gives a remote code exploit by merely visiting a malicious TLS server? If so, having all your end-user machines pwned inside the firewall is not better than the risk of a compatibility conflict. One cripples an organization, the other, at worst, breaks one app.
Have they been learning from the politicians and lobbyists?
Of course - who do you think has been attacking them for the past couple years? Now, they will say that Uber started it by threatening their 17th-Century business model of cartels and thugs, but only one actor is holding the guns.
There's an outside chance that some journalists 'investigating' Uber full-time are completely independent and not colluding with the thugs, but let's not be naieve about how the government-media complex operates.
That said, this dope from Uber should just shut up about it, and they should uncover those ties, not the personal foibles of the opposition (if for no other reason than that nobody cares).
So I guess we are punishing the Russian people only for the military shooting down a civilian plane?
c'mon, it's about oil and gas revenues and strategic positioning in the market - you know this game by now.
These sanctions are pre-arranged and [insert crisis here] is penciled in for the right moment, fortuitous or constructed.
I'm gonna guess you're a libertarian on the basis that you ignore the actual reasons things happen
What's your working definition of what a libertarian is?
There are DAMN good reason to keep your mail server on premises be it home or business, if you don't understand why you might want to educate yourself before giving advice.
Correct. Get a $0.99/mo VPS, set up OpenVPN, and relay out over that connection.
It's plain old organized crime in every aspect. That is the cause of most of the world's poverty today.
Works as intended. WONTFIX.
They're taking it Mono a Mono.
With nasty patent clauses, no doubt.
I would donate to MoFo much more frequently if I could direct those donations to specific projects. Electrolysis has been on the list for years, but things like FirefoxOS get the funding. And yes, I realize electrolysis got its legs on Fennec, but it could have been completed work a decade ago with the right funding allocation (bugs date from 2001 at least). There would have been less room for Chrome if it had been done, so it really does rise to the level of misallocation.
The GNOME guys have worked hard to ensure that their UI is only useful on tablets. Now along comes Groupon (aka the Hindu god of small business destruction) wanting to put out a tablet by the same name.
Based upon my twenty years experience with linux desktops, I can safely say that GNOME is no longer useful as a desktop environment and is exclusively focused on tablets now. They can show this post to their judge as my contribution.
yes, they would kick out people paying them lots of money to get in. There certainly is no incentive in a pure capitalist university to keep rich well paying people enrolled.
Correct - aggregate reputation is more valuable than individual tuition payments. It's simply a matter of maximizing value. Western universities kick out tuituion-paying students all the time, for many reasons.
That would imply that the university would also be honest.
It doesn't have to be intellectually honest (my god, saying this about a "university"). It can merely value the increased revenue (assign bonus targets if greed is the only available motivator). Though we ought to hope for more.
Did you know that in America most private schools are worse at educating students than public schools?
This article isn't about America - corruption, violence and bribery isn't how grades are determined here. India has different problems and requires different solutions.
Are you aware of the self-organization of private schools in India (and other poor countries) that parents prefer? Even very poor parents find a way to pay for their children to avoid the government schools there (the schools are very cheap by Western standards).
Have you heard Malala Yousafzai talk about government schools in the region? It's a disaster from top to bottom.
this is why university degrees from India are about as valuable as a high school diploma in the U.S.
Are these public universities? Because a private university would have a strong incentive to catch and remove cheaters so that the value of their degrees are not diminished. There are no "rights" when you agree to abide by a student Code of Conduct, there is an agreement with pre-ordained consequences for both parties (at least outside a government apparatus).
The Universities that confer meaningful degrees would obviously place graduates more ably and thus command higher tuition - the incentives seems to be aligned for the university. Individuals would still be incentivized to accept bribes, but the universities should see those administrators as costing them tuition dollars by sullying their reputation.
Careful ... as soon as you imply that the income tax is a contributing factor to childhood obesity, a singularity forms and obligate statists lose coherence.
Eat more real food and less carrageenan?
Protip: any article that uses the phrase "God particle" is also wrong on the facts.
I can't think of any impediments I have to uploading more video to Facebook right now. If I wanted to upload more videos I'd upload more videos, but they don't usually make sense where text, stills, or links do.
So Mark must be betting that they'll make sense in five years when they don't now - I wonder what his reasoning could possibly be.
I hope he doesn't mean that people will be video recording their status updates. There's a reason many people call it "Dumpbook" - the tile wall in the background is sort of a giveaway.
And no, she won't let me restrict and lock down the machine, I've tried that.
"Son, there's no way I'm wasting my time changing the oil in my car - you will fix the engine for me if you love me."
There is ALWAYS the question "but what caused THAT?"
Causation implies action and result, a before and after. Those concepts are a function of time, which didn't exist before the universe.
It's like asking what the length and width of the universe were at the singularity - the question doesn't have meaning even though our reptile brains insist that time is always present (which is tremendously useful for hunting crickets, so no flags down).
"if you die while engaging in a risk sport you're SOL"
note to self: check policy before going to Walmart on Black Friday.
People are quick to yell "games" as if the entire desktop hasn't been 3D-accelerated for a decade.
In many cases if a chip can be done 30% faster, not only is the user happy with the visuals, but that silicon can enter low-power mode more quickly. A laptop user might get a few more minutes' battery life with this bit on and the world might burn a few less tons of coal for all of the systems.
Because they can't accept death.
What in the actual fuck?
The idea of imaginary property is so frail that it needs massive legal edifices erected around it, and those create security risks for both person and real property.
But, ya know, profits above all, right? Let's get some of that back to the campaigns, eh?