But for some reason people seem to think it's unnatural to make companies accountable. Because we couldn't possibly impose conditions on corporations... they have to be free to make a profit without any accountability.
That's the whole purpose of corporations - to remove accountability. In fact, it meshes perfectly with the very purposes of government - to socialize losses and privatize gains, and if, in exchange, corporations can funnel nearly unlimited money to political campaigns to satisfy politicians' thirst for power, you have a nearly perfect arrangement as far as most of the concentrated-interest players are concerned. No-plead deals have become all the rage with prosecutors over the past two decades, super-charging corporate malfeasance.
Just look at Wall Street before and after the partnerships reorganized as corporations for a case study of how it works. Or even better, the public benefit corporations prior to Reconstruction (when JD Rockefeller bribed Congress to let him make Standard Oil into a permanent corporation) fulfilling the very mercantalist nightmare the former Colonists tried hard to avoid recreating.
"Corporations are People, my friend" - special people who never die, can handle unlimited resources, face no penalties for their behavior, and encourage corruption without remorse. Stan Lee would call those kinds of people "supervillains".
Why not leave anything that could start a major diplomatic incident (at best) to the hands of amateurs!
Hey, we tried leaving the North Korea issue to Darth Albright and we got from that a long-range-missile-armed North Korea with a nuclear program and artificial grapefruits.
Get Bezos to fund the drones and start delivering diaper wipes and we might actually do some good for these people.
Anybody know what's up with NASA TV and region restrictions? We tried to watch the launch last night on our TV but Chromecast refused to play it because the player threw region restriction errors.
Clearly it was better for the advancement of science to have my kids huddled around my phone ("I can't see; move your elbow!")...
You can't even get actual EMACS developers to complain because I didnt send them the binary and thus they also do not have standing.
That's not how copyright works. If you're photocopying a book and selling it at your store, the original author has standing even if they're not purchasing the photocopies (and obviously they wouldn't be).
Both BSD and GPL are copyright-based licenses. Copying BSD/GPL code is illegal without agreeing to the terms of the license.
Maybe your concept of standing ought to apply because copyright is bogus, but government courts will enforce the copyright regime anyway.
I don't care about Thunderbird's chrome so much but both Firefox and Thunderbird are losing users because it's *still* not able to use multi-core effectively due to xulrunner trying to be an OS on top of its other tasks.
Chrome is 'snappy' because it tries to do less. Users don't care why, but they know what it feels like. Just today I was typing a message in Thunderbird and it stopped accepting my keyboard input for about 8 seconds while it was busy running an index or whatever it felt like hijacking the UI thread for. That's unconscionable in 2015 and shows disdain for the users' experience - I have a 3GHz 8-core desktop and it can't process typing smoothly! The original bugs on this problem date back to 2001, still in the NEW state.
I know, Electrolysis has been making some progress and is deployed on Fennec, but if they're declaring victory just before losing the war, it's nothing but pyrrhic posturing.
Oh, but it's _hard_ and MoFo only has $350,000,000 a year to dole out to more important efforts. And people wonder why Google went its own way!
I would have loved to see #! continue even as just a metapackage that installs what makes the distro different from vanilla Debian.
Since you're probably more knowledgeable than the submitter or any of the trolls commenting thus far, care to tell us what you liked that made it worth your choice? Specifically what it does better than vanilla Debian?
If the term was outside of the reasonable expectations... /... together with terms which are so oppressive that no reasonable person would make them and no fair and honest person would accept them." (Fanning v. Fritz's Pontiac-Cadillac-Buick Inc.)
Betcha a dollar that no judge would rule that a car company pushing OTA updates would fall under any of those categories. Just because I/you/they don't want something, doesn't mean it's legally unreasonable by the other party.
You could see the wide shot, his face, her face, the hotel-PPV version, or the real naughty bits. I had an Apex DVD player that would flash a little 'angle' indicator onscreen whenever a multi-angle scene was available and the remote had an 'angle change' button.
It was pretty much useless.
Editors know how to do their job. Having five cameramen increases costs by quite a bit but doesn't increase profits at all, even in niche markets. One of the benefits of editing is that you can do takes and retakes without having to have a different camera on every angle simultaneously.
I guess for science experiments it might be useful, but exactly at whom is YouTube aiming this feature?
Maybe if there are enough angles with some future gear then they can integrate it with some of the stuff they've been doing with StreetView and PhotoSphere and allow for some freespace navigation within a video. That might be neat, but it's a ways off.
However, I suspect he's been offered many contracts and never knew about them:
Please do not send any attachments with ZIP files or any HTML in it. They are all silently discarded. Note, that this includes messages send as plain text plus HTML.
There is something I'd like to do with GPG that isn't a standard yet. I'll have to remember to scrutinize Thunderbird's settings before sending him a solicitation.
That is why we use CentOS for most of our critical servers at work. There's something to be said for 10-year support cycles.
The trick is that then the upgrade at 8 years is a nightmare.
The real problem is that people don't know what they've installed, how they've configured it, and how to upgrade it. Devops really is the answer. My puppet modules work at least on CentOS, CentOS -1, and Fedora/Fedora -1, so I figure out changes on Fedora, and eventually retire the CentOS -2 releases. My CentOS 5 is all gone, just about everything works on CentOS 7 and can be deployed when I get a chance. If you're up against year 8 and you don't know what's on your 8 year-old box, the first thing to do is to be able to replicate it, and then you can think about upgrading.
This makes the idea of a rolling release less desirable, except to get new features/fixes faster. The sad part is that traditional distros take absolutely no responsibility for upgrades - there's no community expectation of a standard - something dovecot has done this poorly and MailScanner has done this wonderfully. If a million people have to upgrade dovecot to get from CentOS 5 to CentOS 7 then a million people have to figure out how to do the upgrade. That works against the idea of why distros were formed.
Since you still have to do it all yourself, at least devops makes it manageable. It would be neat if you didn't have to do it all yourself. That's an inevitability.
Anyone have any direct experience with both Mint KDE and Fedora/KDE who can comment on how they compare? This might be worth checking out.
I gave Mint a spin on the boy's eeePc (i686) and wireless networking was a mess. Failed hardware detection, but only sometimes, failed dhcp, but only sometimes, failed shutdowns, but only sometimes. I installed Fedora 21 KDE/RPMFusion, same as my laptop (x86_64), and it works fine.
Some guy above was going on about KDE being a "Second Class Citizen". Yeah... so it works fine, even if the many of the people in red on the bugzilla have drunk the GNOME Kool-Aid (I jumped ship when GNOME embraced mono and it's been downhill from there). For historical reasons I'm running nm-applet instead of the KDE Network widget (the KDE one was deficient for a time so Fedora documented how to use the other one) but the boy's machine is just using KDE's, so it must work now.
Three of the four users in this household are non-power users and they all use Fedora/KDE. The liveUSB's I carry around are Fedora's KDE spin. OpenSUSE has good KDE support too and tracks Fedora's advancements pretty well. They also have a few advantages of their own (e.g. proper hibernate/resume on kernel upgrade, etc. - better spit and finish stuff).
All you need to do is form a country on the moon, then protecct its sovereignty.
Right - I doubt the FAA is going to enforce any court orders on the moon. Although, if that gave the FAA incentive to have its own Space Army, well, don't bet against their thirst for power.
I suspect some bureaucrats in England thought they could dole out parcels of land in the New World as well, by keeping a ledger of registrations. History rhymes.
I, for one, proudly agree with the wise governor that some vaccines shouldn't mandatory for children
Making vaccines mandatory only perpetuates the problem. Every government mandate comes at the point of a gun, and "do it or I'll fucking shoot you in the head" (#include quotes from General Washington and Chairman Mao), which is the same thing as "because I said so".
What we're up against is people who think "because Jenny McCarthy said so" is a good rationale. It's exactly the same thing to people who are ignorant.
You know what should be mandatory? High-level critical thinking and a semester of immunology to get a high school diploma.
That'll solve your problem - not edicts on top of ignorance.
Except high level critical thinking skills lead people to question the NSA Spying and imprisonment of Chelsea manning, so it's much more profitable to maintain the status quo and lose a few members of the herd (in case you were expecting positive change).
A lot of the wins from Perl6 have already been backported to Perl5. At this point I'm in no rush to switch to Perl6 even if it does come out.
The easy wins, yes; the low-hanging fruit, yes, absolutely. Perl5 really does benefit.
But there is some stuff in Perl 6 that requires you to think about languages differently - stuff that doesn't map well to perl5. New stuff unless you're an academic language geek, that's just creeping out of the lab. Stuff that's hard to wrap your head around at first, and then you go, "ohhhhhh... so... wow."
It's hard to write an article about that kind of thing. Sit down and try it out for a couple hours to get an inkling.
I know, everybody wants to pronounce "wise" judgments without having to do the hard bits.
It'll decrease their backhaul capacity, but few people even care and fewer still will do something about it. Heck, it took me three months to bother renting a VPS to do it and I already had all the skills.
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But for some reason people seem to think it's unnatural to make companies accountable. Because we couldn't possibly impose conditions on corporations ... they have to be free to make a profit without any accountability.
That's the whole purpose of corporations - to remove accountability. In fact, it meshes perfectly with the very purposes of government - to socialize losses and privatize gains, and if, in exchange, corporations can funnel nearly unlimited money to political campaigns to satisfy politicians' thirst for power, you have a nearly perfect arrangement as far as most of the concentrated-interest players are concerned. No-plead deals have become all the rage with prosecutors over the past two decades, super-charging corporate malfeasance.
Just look at Wall Street before and after the partnerships reorganized as corporations for a case study of how it works. Or even better, the public benefit corporations prior to Reconstruction (when JD Rockefeller bribed Congress to let him make Standard Oil into a permanent corporation) fulfilling the very mercantalist nightmare the former Colonists tried hard to avoid recreating.
"Corporations are People, my friend" - special people who never die, can handle unlimited resources, face no penalties for their behavior, and encourage corruption without remorse. Stan Lee would call those kinds of people "supervillains".
Why not leave anything that could start a major diplomatic incident (at best) to the hands of amateurs!
Hey, we tried leaving the North Korea issue to Darth Albright and we got from that a long-range-missile-armed North Korea with a nuclear program and artificial grapefruits.
Get Bezos to fund the drones and start delivering diaper wipes and we might actually do some good for these people.
Anybody know what's up with NASA TV and region restrictions? We tried to watch the launch last night on our TV but Chromecast refused to play it because the player threw region restriction errors.
Clearly it was better for the advancement of science to have my kids huddled around my phone ("I can't see; move your elbow!") ...
You can't even get actual EMACS developers to complain because I didnt send them the binary and thus they also do not have standing.
That's not how copyright works. If you're photocopying a book and selling it at your store, the original author has standing even if they're not purchasing the photocopies (and obviously they wouldn't be).
Both BSD and GPL are copyright-based licenses. Copying BSD/GPL code is illegal without agreeing to the terms of the license.
Maybe your concept of standing ought to apply because copyright is bogus, but government courts will enforce the copyright regime anyway.
If that have gone off, ashy rain would be the least of our problems.
"Look, Ma, it's raining pieces of Chicago!"
I don't care about Thunderbird's chrome so much but both Firefox and Thunderbird are losing users because it's *still* not able to use multi-core effectively due to xulrunner trying to be an OS on top of its other tasks.
Chrome is 'snappy' because it tries to do less. Users don't care why, but they know what it feels like. Just today I was typing a message in Thunderbird and it stopped accepting my keyboard input for about 8 seconds while it was busy running an index or whatever it felt like hijacking the UI thread for. That's unconscionable in 2015 and shows disdain for the users' experience - I have a 3GHz 8-core desktop and it can't process typing smoothly! The original bugs on this problem date back to 2001, still in the NEW state.
I know, Electrolysis has been making some progress and is deployed on Fennec, but if they're declaring victory just before losing the war, it's nothing but pyrrhic posturing.
Oh, but it's _hard_ and MoFo only has $350,000,000 a year to dole out to more important efforts. And people wonder why Google went its own way!
I would have loved to see #! continue even as just a metapackage that installs what makes the distro different from vanilla Debian.
Since you're probably more knowledgeable than the submitter or any of the trolls commenting thus far, care to tell us what you liked that made it worth your choice? Specifically what it does better than vanilla Debian?
Look up Contracts of adhesion.
Betcha a dollar that no judge would rule that a car company pushing OTA updates would fall under any of those categories. Just because I/you/they don't want something, doesn't mean it's legally unreasonable by the other party.
BTW what does this topic have to do with censorship? The question is one of judgment, not law.
Facebook and Google are censoring posts with the video. 'Censorship' doesn't require a government actor. 'Government censorship' does.
It's just definitional.
These corporations have no duty to carry the video, and their users have no duty to find their services suitable for free discussion of ideas.
So the vendor can/will push an update OTA to *my* vehicle w/o my specific consent?
You've never signed paperwork at a dealer? You know their attorneys will have this air-tight.
Personally, I'm driving pre-TPMS vehicles until the whole mess is straightened out. Maybe they'll have a reliable autopilot by time that happens.
Didn't make a splash then...
You could see the wide shot, his face, her face, the hotel-PPV version, or the real naughty bits. I had an Apex DVD player that would flash a little 'angle' indicator onscreen whenever a multi-angle scene was available and the remote had an 'angle change' button.
It was pretty much useless.
Editors know how to do their job. Having five cameramen increases costs by quite a bit but doesn't increase profits at all, even in niche markets. One of the benefits of editing is that you can do takes and retakes without having to have a different camera on every angle simultaneously.
I guess for science experiments it might be useful, but exactly at whom is YouTube aiming this feature?
Maybe if there are enough angles with some future gear then they can integrate it with some of the stuff they've been doing with StreetView and PhotoSphere and allow for some freespace navigation within a video. That might be neat, but it's a ways off.
n/t
Can't he just sell support or something? Isn't there supposed to be viable funding models for FOSS projects?
He does sell support.
However, I suspect he's been offered many contracts and never knew about them:
There is something I'd like to do with GPG that isn't a standard yet. I'll have to remember to scrutinize Thunderbird's settings before sending him a solicitation.
That is why we use CentOS for most of our critical servers at work. There's something to be said for 10-year support cycles.
The trick is that then the upgrade at 8 years is a nightmare.
The real problem is that people don't know what they've installed, how they've configured it, and how to upgrade it. Devops really is the answer. My puppet modules work at least on CentOS, CentOS -1, and Fedora/Fedora -1, so I figure out changes on Fedora, and eventually retire the CentOS -2 releases. My CentOS 5 is all gone, just about everything works on CentOS 7 and can be deployed when I get a chance. If you're up against year 8 and you don't know what's on your 8 year-old box, the first thing to do is to be able to replicate it, and then you can think about upgrading.
This makes the idea of a rolling release less desirable, except to get new features/fixes faster. The sad part is that traditional distros take absolutely no responsibility for upgrades - there's no community expectation of a standard - something dovecot has done this poorly and MailScanner has done this wonderfully. If a million people have to upgrade dovecot to get from CentOS 5 to CentOS 7 then a million people have to figure out how to do the upgrade. That works against the idea of why distros were formed.
Since you still have to do it all yourself, at least devops makes it manageable. It would be neat if you didn't have to do it all yourself. That's an inevitability.
systemctl service engage geiss wobble manager=1 --upchuck --lasermode /var/tmp/var/eng/lib/lib64/service/svc/portal/optimized/Skernel.wrapper
And how is that an ineffective programmer's API?
Someday there will be userspace tools for admins to use as well.
Anyone have any direct experience with both Mint KDE and Fedora/KDE who can comment on how they compare? This might be worth checking out.
I gave Mint a spin on the boy's eeePc (i686) and wireless networking was a mess. Failed hardware detection, but only sometimes, failed dhcp, but only sometimes, failed shutdowns, but only sometimes. I installed Fedora 21 KDE/RPMFusion, same as my laptop (x86_64), and it works fine.
Some guy above was going on about KDE being a "Second Class Citizen". Yeah ... so it works fine, even if the many of the people in red on the bugzilla have drunk the GNOME Kool-Aid (I jumped ship when GNOME embraced mono and it's been downhill from there). For historical reasons I'm running nm-applet instead of the KDE Network widget (the KDE one was deficient for a time so Fedora documented how to use the other one) but the boy's machine is just using KDE's, so it must work now.
Three of the four users in this household are non-power users and they all use Fedora/KDE. The liveUSB's I carry around are Fedora's KDE spin. OpenSUSE has good KDE support too and tracks Fedora's advancements pretty well. They also have a few advantages of their own (e.g. proper hibernate/resume on kernel upgrade, etc. - better spit and finish stuff).
All you need to do is form a country on the moon, then protecct its sovereignty.
Right - I doubt the FAA is going to enforce any court orders on the moon. Although, if that gave the FAA incentive to have its own Space Army, well, don't bet against their thirst for power.
I suspect some bureaucrats in England thought they could dole out parcels of land in the New World as well, by keeping a ledger of registrations. History rhymes.
They can't be. It's simple math and economics. Anything that is more ready made has more labor put into it.
Really, factory labor is your only input to calculate cost?
but they just don't have anything to offer anymore
First Radio Shack sold radios, which enabled technically-savvy people to communicate.
Then Radio Shack sold simple computers, which enabled technically-savvy people to run applications to improve their lives.
Now, everybody carries an advanced radio/computer in their pocket, they're sold at RadioShack, and the nerds declare a tragedy.
I, for one, proudly agree with the wise governor that some vaccines shouldn't mandatory for children
Making vaccines mandatory only perpetuates the problem. Every government mandate comes at the point of a gun, and "do it or I'll fucking shoot you in the head" (#include quotes from General Washington and Chairman Mao), which is the same thing as "because I said so".
What we're up against is people who think "because Jenny McCarthy said so" is a good rationale. It's exactly the same thing to people who are ignorant.
You know what should be mandatory? High-level critical thinking and a semester of immunology to get a high school diploma.
That'll solve your problem - not edicts on top of ignorance.
Except high level critical thinking skills lead people to question the NSA Spying and imprisonment of Chelsea manning, so it's much more profitable to maintain the status quo and lose a few members of the herd (in case you were expecting positive change).
I've since sold off all my Pi gear to enthusiasts, but the three killers for me at the time (Model B) were:
USB dropouts, as you mentioned.
Memory card corruption (occasionally, known-good cards, but what a bummer).
GPU crashes on certain videos.
Plus I could get more ADC pins elsewhere. But I did tell myself I'd revisit the Pi when the 2 came out - the community size is much better.
I'm hopeful, but these problems are well-known, so I'd love to see them addressed directly.
A lot of the wins from Perl6 have already been backported to Perl5. At this point I'm in no rush to switch to Perl6 even if it does come out.
The easy wins, yes; the low-hanging fruit, yes, absolutely. Perl5 really does benefit.
But there is some stuff in Perl 6 that requires you to think about languages differently - stuff that doesn't map well to perl5. New stuff unless you're an academic language geek, that's just creeping out of the lab. Stuff that's hard to wrap your head around at first, and then you go, "ohhhhhh ... so ... wow."
It's hard to write an article about that kind of thing. Sit down and try it out for a couple hours to get an inkling.
I know, everybody wants to pronounce "wise" judgments without having to do the hard bits.
No more imperial shit.
Oh, just wait until the NeoCons hear about this rocket.
It'll decrease their backhaul capacity, but few people even care and fewer still will do something about it. Heck, it took me three months to bother renting a VPS to do it and I already had all the skills.