this. I went over to KDE when the GNOME people started doing their tango with mono. I think that fad has passed now, but it was a clear sign to me that the project had fundamental problems.
It's a shame - there's a bunch of useful stuff to work on over at freedesktop that would have great user benefit, but not much of it is very sexy. Well, at least for those who don't find plumbers sexy.
And we don't know, because it was closed source until this announcement.
That's a huge assumption. Reality is everybody knows they track the RHEL5/6 releases and add their patches to those and all the kernel version information is a google away.
Those safes are not fit for their intended purpose.
Yeah, so about six months ago my 5-year-old son broke into a bank vault. He goes with his Mom to the bank. He didn't know his numbers at the time, but he apparently is good at patterns, so he remembered the 7-digit pattern the teller would often punch in when he was watching what was going on (clearly not paying attention to the banking).
On a subsequent visit he wandered off (to play with the bead toys, right?) while his Mom did the banking, and a few minutes later, they notice the door opening unexpectedly. I think they were far too embarrassed about their security to say anything. I was far to impressed to scold him afterwards.
Back to the video of Toby - he's clearly a smart boy who's been taught how to defeat the safes. Now, it looks to me like several of those failures could be triggered accidentally, and obviously the designs aren't good enough. But, if you have a safe, ideally the kids won't know where it is, you certainly won't ever let them watch you opening the safe, and there will be consequences for even fiddling with the safe.
Yes, a perfect lock would be much better, but don't forget the other parts of the security process.
I can't think of a better way to handle such abuses.
Similarly, activists have been using Qik video streaming for a few years. They have decent social network integration, so you also have a way to let your friends know you've just been repressed.
Arranging a social group who will actually do anything when you post a video of you being repressed is not included. Best to do that part ahead of time.
The "problem" is that we want point to point communications (no middleman) that aren't a pain to make work. Your solution doesn't seem to address this.
Oh, I thought we wanted secure communications today because Skype is bugged.
We still have a middleman (to whom are we paying $3/mo).
Which is a decent deal, as compared with Skype.
We still have to configure 'both ends' - this is the "pain to make work" that end users don't want.
Yeah, brand new technology tends to require fiddling. Come back in 5 years and it should be all automatic.
Point to point communications with no middleman are definitely possible, but realistically aren't practical on the internet as it is.
Agreed.
There is ALWAYS going to be a middleman... the only question is who.
Good point. Best that those remain open source so they can be inspected. My edge routers are, though my Telco modems aren't. Fortunately, I can trust those guys to be so cheap as to not put anything with enough memory to be dangerous in my way.;)
The best we can really hope for is a decentralized non-commercial p2p cluster of middlemen.
A good start would be for governments to stop attacking providers of Tor exit nodes. That's a major impediment at the moment.
the fact Canonical and Redhat were forced to buy a license *from Microsoft* or else their OSes would not run
So the fact that they chose to pay Microsoft $80 rather than establish vendor relationships with every motherboard and BIOS manufacturer (as Microsoft did) creates a situation of force?
"Oh that's okay... it's a free market. I love the megacorps". You Corporate loving sellout.
ah, this was just an excuse to lash out at somebody, wasn't it?
this is either the world's most incompetent CEO (harsh, considering how high Carly set the bar for that...), or there's something nefarious at work.
Well, sure. Microsoft wanted to be Apple (stop me if you've heard this before). Apple makes its own phones, and Microsoft wanted to be that too. They'd also need carrier relationships, testing, FCC, qualifying the hardware, labs, designers.... and all that yesterday. It was far cheaper to install their guy in Nokia, have him dump everything but Windows Phone, and then tell customers that there is no upgrade for the phones on the market. The logical outcome there is that earnings crash, stock price crashes, and then Nokia is ripe for an amicable or hostile takeover.
So, mission accomplished and a many years and billions of dollars are saved. The interesting bit is probably what the relationship looks like between Nokia's board members and Microsoft.
Local infrastructure for telecom, cable, water, electricity, gas, etc is a "natural monopoly".
So when both telephone and cable converge on being digitally-signaled IP networks, you'll advocate getting rid of one of the two in every place where there's a choice available?
I disagree. The optimal amount of screen space just fills my field of vision
I concur. I prefer my 22" over my 24" for the distance I typically work at. The 24" makes me turn my head.
I only use the 24" because of the resolution (oh, and it's IPS, not the crap TFT my 22" is). But, give me a double-resolution 22" any day - except those are not for sale.
I wonder how much you could charge people for "space jumps"?
I'm not sure what the price level would be, but I can tell you that I have pretty much no interest in jumping out of an airplane, but I would do it multiple times if it were required to train for this kind of jump.
I'm pretty sure I could be 117, dying on a bed and, remembering my space jump, say, "fuck yeah" and die happy.
This is news to few; heck the bumper sticker I made for myself with that saying has this in its footer metadata: "Made on 4/24/2007 1:19 PM".
I hear Richard Branson has repeatedly tried to get appointments with Obama to talk about IFR reactors (and been rebuffed), so I probably don't need to be prosthelitizing them any longer.
"You should buy stuff from us instead of WalMart because we treat our employees about 50% better than they do."
separate matter: the folks here who are saying that working three years in a warehouse is a death sentence should get out and meet some real people, and try a bit harder to not be entitled pricks. One caveat: if you do meet a real warehouse worker (or dock worker, or other transportation/inventory logistics person), watch out for your teeth.
Here's another angle: people who have the self-discipline to work in a tough job like that for at least three years without quitting and going home to live in their parents' basement stand a good chance at managing the demands of the work/school balance and will likely complete their coursework.
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The warning signs were there for years before.
this. I went over to KDE when the GNOME people started doing their tango with mono. I think that fad has passed now, but it was a clear sign to me that the project had fundamental problems.
It's a shame - there's a bunch of useful stuff to work on over at freedesktop that would have great user benefit, but not much of it is very sexy. Well, at least for those who don't find plumbers sexy.
This is not a joke, people - this is keeping American troops in a decaying and ancient logistics system so that some weasel can steal your tax money.
You say that as if the system isn't designed to accomplish just that and it's working exactly as intended.
He made billions by luring thousands of unsuspecting investors (including home 'mom and pop' type investors) into buying his overvalued bubble stock.
And we don't know, because it was closed source until this announcement.
That's a huge assumption. Reality is everybody knows they track the RHEL5/6 releases and add their patches to those and all the kernel version information is a google away.
Yes, they do guarantee. It's no secret, the product lifecycle is on their support website.
Anything like the Oracle Database for Itanic lifecycle?
Those safes are not fit for their intended purpose.
Yeah, so about six months ago my 5-year-old son broke into a bank vault. He goes with his Mom to the bank. He didn't know his numbers at the time, but he apparently is good at patterns, so he remembered the 7-digit pattern the teller would often punch in when he was watching what was going on (clearly not paying attention to the banking).
On a subsequent visit he wandered off (to play with the bead toys, right?) while his Mom did the banking, and a few minutes later, they notice the door opening unexpectedly. I think they were far too embarrassed about their security to say anything. I was far to impressed to scold him afterwards.
Back to the video of Toby - he's clearly a smart boy who's been taught how to defeat the safes. Now, it looks to me like several of those failures could be triggered accidentally, and obviously the designs aren't good enough. But, if you have a safe, ideally the kids won't know where it is, you certainly won't ever let them watch you opening the safe, and there will be consequences for even fiddling with the safe.
Yes, a perfect lock would be much better, but don't forget the other parts of the security process.
I can't think of a better way to handle such abuses.
Similarly, activists have been using Qik video streaming for a few years. They have decent social network integration, so you also have a way to let your friends know you've just been repressed.
Arranging a social group who will actually do anything when you post a video of you being repressed is not included. Best to do that part ahead of time.
The "problem" is that we want point to point communications (no middleman) that aren't a pain to make work. Your solution doesn't seem to address this.
Oh, I thought we wanted secure communications today because Skype is bugged.
We still have a middleman (to whom are we paying $3/mo).
Which is a decent deal, as compared with Skype.
We still have to configure 'both ends' - this is the "pain to make work" that end users don't want.
Yeah, brand new technology tends to require fiddling. Come back in 5 years and it should be all automatic.
Point to point communications with no middleman are definitely possible, but realistically aren't practical on the internet as it is.
Agreed.
There is ALWAYS going to be a middleman... the only question is who.
Good point. Best that those remain open source so they can be inspected. My edge routers are, though my Telco modems aren't. Fortunately, I can trust those guys to be so cheap as to not put anything with enough memory to be dangerous in my way. ;)
The best we can really hope for is a decentralized non-commercial p2p cluster of middlemen.
A good start would be for governments to stop attacking providers of Tor exit nodes. That's a major impediment at the moment.
This company is the only involved company which would need to be well regulated.
Ah. How do you solve the corruption problem that leads to decaying infrastructure?
:) So what you're saying is we need to also ban pipes, rubber bands, nails, and wood - right?
Ban all the things!
Which city would that be?
Vatican City.
the fact Canonical and Redhat were forced to buy a license *from Microsoft* or else their OSes would not run
So the fact that they chose to pay Microsoft $80 rather than establish vendor relationships with every motherboard and BIOS manufacturer (as Microsoft did) creates a situation of force?
"Oh that's okay... it's a free market. I love the megacorps". You Corporate loving sellout.
ah, this was just an excuse to lash out at somebody, wasn't it?
You dumped your ISP?
I've never tried a ZRTP connection through Tor, but in theory that's most of the necessary parts.
If governments didn't attack Tor exit nodes there would be plenty of bandwidth available for everybody to have this level of privacy.
Realistically, a middle man is going to be here for a long while yet.
Which really isn't a problem - for instance using asterisk as a ZRTP passthrough.
In theory this should cost ~$3/mo for most people to use if both ends are correctly configured.
this is either the world's most incompetent CEO (harsh, considering how high Carly set the bar for that...), or there's something nefarious at work.
Well, sure. Microsoft wanted to be Apple (stop me if you've heard this before). Apple makes its own phones, and Microsoft wanted to be that too. They'd also need carrier relationships, testing, FCC, qualifying the hardware, labs, designers .... and all that yesterday. It was far cheaper to install their guy in Nokia, have him dump everything but Windows Phone, and then tell customers that there is no upgrade for the phones on the market. The logical outcome there is that earnings crash, stock price crashes, and then Nokia is ripe for an amicable or hostile takeover.
So, mission accomplished and a many years and billions of dollars are saved. The interesting bit is probably what the relationship looks like between Nokia's board members and Microsoft.
The sad part is, anyone with decent skills can make perfectly functional weapons in the comfort of their own home (usually garage).
Ban the engineers!
Local infrastructure for telecom, cable, water, electricity, gas, etc is a "natural monopoly".
So when both telephone and cable converge on being digitally-signaled IP networks, you'll advocate getting rid of one of the two in every place where there's a choice available?
Right - and it's the only way to do styled text on Facebook. Despite the HTML5/CSS3 world that Facebook exists in.
What if I need more than 5 Mbps down but less than 1000 and I don't want to pay $70/month? Even 50/10 would be awesome!
Pay Comcast $199/mo for their 50/10 package.
or hover bubbles, whatever. Why are we having 20th century arguments?
I disagree. The optimal amount of screen space just fills my field of vision
I concur. I prefer my 22" over my 24" for the distance I typically work at. The 24" makes me turn my head.
I only use the 24" because of the resolution (oh, and it's IPS, not the crap TFT my 22" is). But, give me a double-resolution 22" any day - except those are not for sale.
I wonder how much you could charge people for "space jumps"?
I'm not sure what the price level would be, but I can tell you that I have pretty much no interest in jumping out of an airplane, but I would do it multiple times if it were required to train for this kind of jump.
I'm pretty sure I could be 117, dying on a bed and, remembering my space jump, say, "fuck yeah" and die happy.
the sound of speed
vroom, vroom.
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This is news to few; heck the bumper sticker I made for myself with that saying has this in its footer metadata: "Made on 4/24/2007 1:19 PM".
I hear Richard Branson has repeatedly tried to get appointments with Obama to talk about IFR reactors (and been rebuffed), so I probably don't need to be prosthelitizing them any longer.
"You should buy stuff from us instead of WalMart because we treat our employees about 50% better than they do."
separate matter: the folks here who are saying that working three years in a warehouse is a death sentence should get out and meet some real people, and try a bit harder to not be entitled pricks. One caveat: if you do meet a real warehouse worker (or dock worker, or other transportation/inventory logistics person), watch out for your teeth.
Here's another angle: people who have the self-discipline to work in a tough job like that for at least three years without quitting and going home to live in their parents' basement stand a good chance at managing the demands of the work/school balance and will likely complete their coursework.