Was having a conversation at work and we were talking about fake news and misinformation in general being harmful to people. I expressed my concern at the idea of, and my surprise people weren't talking about it already, misinformation becoming a crime and it becoming a slippery slope to the end of freedom of speech. This sounds like the first step in that direction thanks to Mr. Fuckerberg and his creation.
Freedom of speech will still be healthy, loud, and annoying long after regulatory requirements make it impossible for Mohammed in Iran to pretend to be Misha in Moscow on facebook.ru, and Mike in New York on facebook.com, and all the vice-versas.
90% of the problem is nobody knows anything about anyone else online. The other 10% is human nature nothing can fix.
Walmart won't even sell you a candy bar if you walk into the store with a bag over your head, but otherwise you are free to anonymously crop dust everyone in the greeting card isle and make fart noises with your mouth if that's your cup of tea. Problems like that are usually self-correcting... get kicked from store, physical altercations, play your hand in court, etc.
Facebook will let the guy that dismembered Jamal Khashoggi open an account, pretend to be an Irish housewife, and post pictures of dead kittens, to a global audience. If they actually manage to prevent any part of that from happening, they will grumble and complain it's not their job, and someone will cry about censorship.
Most of the actual problems with the Internet would fix themselves if we all said "what would meatspace do"
I thought the idea was that information wants to be free, and we shouldn't restrict content (unless it's clearly illegal, like child porn). Even if it's content you don't agree with...
The problem seems to be that folks have become reluctant to protect that most important free speech; the one you disagree with.
Freedom of speech does not mean lazily handing a global megaphone to everyone in the world, while you look away guilt-free and share no responsibilities for their actions, allow them to use it anonymously from literally anywhere on the planet WHILE totally misrepresenting themselves as anyone anywhere else on the planet.
In the same way that an individual right to bear arms does not mean we have to allow every person to rock surface to air missiles in their backyard, or sell them to people that can, or make, or own one, freedom of speech absolutely does not have to mean THAT.
Look, say if the King of England had allowed free speech, when "Jeff in Lexington" says something obscene about colonial aspirations, that's speech we can just disagree with. Some people did support the monarchy in colonial America after all.
When "Jeff in Lexington", "Anonymous in Boston", "Real Paul Revere2", and "George Wash1ngton" are all propaganda spewing sock puppets being run directly from the King's Court, then we might not have had a Boston Tea Party, we might have had a Boston Printing Press Party, because that's not free speech, that's an affront to free speech.
You can thank the nytimes for providing absolutely NOTHING of value to this story.
This is juvenile. I like Gizmodo's Adam and David example, but all of their quotes are right out of the report itself aside from this one. "As one of the report’s co-authors told The New York Times,"
The NYT article goes further than internet searches for background info. "John Wagner, deputy executive assistant commissioner for field operations at Customs and Border Protection, said..." "Laura Moy, who helped write the report, said..." "But Senators Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, expressed concerns..."
"In 1996, Congress ordered the federal government to develop a tracking system for people who overstayed their entry visas. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, an entry- and exit-tracking system was seen as a vital national security and counterterrorism tool. The 9/11 Commission recommended in 2004 that the newly-developed Department of Homeland Security complete a system “as soon as possible.” Congress has since passed seven separate laws requiring biometric entry-exit screening."
Let's play a game. You name a group and/or a prominent person, who did not endorse/vote for Hillary Clinton, and I'll find a group and/or a prominent person denouncing him/them as a "Nazi".
Mike Pence Mitch McConnell John McCain Mitt Romney John Kasich...
I mean, really... I listen to an AM radio station ALL DAY, I know what stupid game you're playing. Every day it's New York Times said this, no good rotten failing New York Times said that, trying hard to be victims and beet pills.
If you are using Windows then you are forfeiting a major advantage: absolute control of your system. Windows cannot even be trusted to respect it's own system settings let alone be worthy of being trusted.
Here's the thing about control, that computer is on your desk. Physical access is absolute control, what you lack is ability. What you're really looking for is something that cooperates with you. THAT doesn't have to be free. For many people, for many purposes, that's Windows.
You should be suspicious of software written by corporations because their motive is profit, not security or even user satisfaction.
Sure... also don't eat their food, that's how they get you with the chemicals!
There is complexity in running an estate with multiple OS on offer but the truth is, any sysadmins capable of running a *nix infrastructure and operation should find supporting and mainlining other OS estates relatively straightforward.
Salty Linux & Solaris SA: If you can afford a *nix sysadmin team, you can afford a contractor to install and run Windows management infrastructure while you look for a permanent hire.
Anyone's capable of learning Mandarin, and it'd be swell if everyone learned another language, but don't tell me to start doing "just" half my work in it next week... "cause you're smart." I'm not that stupid.
Uh, he was the recipient. Maybe you should learn how to read better.
Why isn't this story 110% about the sender?
You know, the person that mailed a $10,000 collection uninsured, in two reused boxes taped together and bound with paper, with no address slips inside the boxes to be studied in a foreign country, AND RETURNED...
But whose loss was it? OMG we almost lost our ROMs, the humanity, nobody talk about the sender/packager!!!11
I'm the submitter. I don't care if he stomps kittens in his spare time, and I doubt I've seen three of his videos before today. The dishonesty and cynicism here shown by allegedly reputable mainstream media outlets here is astonishing.
He may well be a troll. Entirely possible. But the videos I've thus far seen were not of a trollish cast, and the "Death to All Jews" one in particular is not remotely anti-semitic. If you genuinely believe it to be so, you may be from an actual intellectual, emotional or perceptual disorder of some sort.
This latest response is perfectly timed, just as the flames were dying down he fans them and gets another round of attention.
If this is the current state of the media, if this is the sort of hyperbole we're going to be subjected to for the next four years, if this is the new McCarthyism, then these are flames that need flaming, be it by trolls or non-trolls.
On a personal note here: it's not like I really fear some totalitarianism of the left, either. I don't think they can win this war... not in America, anyway. But I do rather fear the consequences of proving Trump right, of validating the echo chambers of tens of millions of people who were right-leaning fence sitters until they saw the proof stack up that the mainstream media really is full of hysterical, baldfaced lies.
Has it always been *this* bad? Fuck me, I'd better stop before I start saying "woke".
If advertisers don't want to do business with him because of his actions, that's that. Advertising execs are big boys, they make their own decisions. This is Internet advertising, it could be flipped back on like a light switch if they change their minds.
This sounds about as loopy as Trump's blaming the media for firing Flynn for lying to his VP.
I wonder how RHEL and my local IT group can keep the workstation I use in working condition without asking to restart the workstation at all...
I'm a seasoned Linux SA. In my experience, many Linux users are (unwittingly?) betting on known vulnerabilities not being exploited due to Linux having a lower profile and its users having better than average safe computing practices. For example, scummy websites offering "Free email emoticon packs - download HERE (emoticoninstall.sh)" just isn't a thing like it is on more popular systems, but at the same time could be equally dangerous. Kind of like with the elusive Mac virus, we should still be vigilant even if the threat isn't obviously present.
You can confirm with the lsof command if they are installing security updates and not restarting any processes using the affected files. If they haven't asked you to log out weekly then it's extremely likely they are just installing the update files at best. Then of course there's the kernel which flat out requires a reboot to take effect. There's a better chance of snowballs in hell than your RHEL workstation having all affected processes restarted for each update and kernel updates being spliced in without interrupting your use of the system.
Here's the last 20 CentOS security alerts, notice two kernel updates. How do your IT people know (if these were even installed) which are actually resolved? I only had to click next once or twice to see nss in the list, a library that will be in use by dozens of processes on any system. It really is a good practice to do a reboot after applying updates or on a schedule to keep everything consistent. Then your admins can say from this point on, 100% of known vulnerabilities have been addressed, because you can't say that by just running a yum update every day. https://lwn.net/Alerts/CentOS/
Another vote for SVN (Subversion) here. You can spin up an SVN server on Ubuntu in about 30 minutes. Then add the web front end in another 10. A WEALTH of clients in both GUI and non-GUI for all platforms. And it is lightweight on the client side. (Only has a single version locally) The code is very mature, and you do not have to worry about patches often, and it is just easy to use.
However, it is missing some things on your "Things that would be great" list, but not many. Not at all with some of the larg ammount of tools and addons built for SVN.
If it doesn't REALLY need to be on a Linux system, you can get Apache+SVN up and running in about a minute with VisualSVN Server. Domain integration, GUI for fine grained access controls, and it's all brain-dead simple and free.
CollabNet seems to have something similar called Subversion Edge for multiple platforms, but I haven't used it and they were late to the game.
I wouldn't recommend anyone roll their own svn+apache system. It's not worth even ten minutes of your time when those tested, out-of-os-distro stacks are available free.
Ok, why do they even need to know if the car is in MOTION at all just to play music??
All of my car stereos so far, have never had to have any connection to car info to play my songs as I barrel down the road. On custom installs, I've never hooked to any of the car data, etc.
Why would an entertainment system need to know any of that information at all?
My car stereo from 2005 increases the volume as my speed increases, and that feature probably goes way back.
Then there's maybe the option to suppress notifications while you're driving some people might like.
Who's software is responsible for displaying the backup camera view, and what draws all the overlay info on that screen? The infotainment system right?
I don't really get when people say that software isn't compatible with touch. All a mouse does is points and clicks, which you can do with your finger. I use a remote desktop app called 'Jump' on Android and it works on a regular desktop just fine.
I hope your version of hell, should you get there, is eternally manipulating a scrollbar widget by finger in a tiny display which pans around in an infinitely large display. If you move off the track half an inch, it snaps back to to the bottom where a little note says "touch compatible".
I never realized that Windows uses a unix-like file hierarchy.
According to the article, drive C: is actually a symbolic link to \Device\HarddiskVolume4, COM3 is \Device\Serial0 and so on.
I'm surprised, frankly. My exposure to Windows is pretty much nil (and I like it that way) but I always assumed that the the C: drive and COM: stuff was a completely different way of accessing the devices and whatnot than what Unix uses. Apparently, it's actually quite similar once you get under the hood.
Learn something new every day....
The NT object manager, doesn't that have more in common with VMS than UNIX? Linux's sysfs is similar, in ways, but neither of these are unix-like unless... um, all hierarchies of objects are unix-like?
If you're sincerely interested in OS internals, you should expose yourself to other systems without prejudice. Otherwise, everything "tastes like chicken".
You won't be hooking 4TB of storage to that 4GB server and running ZFS under load
Modern servers, even desktops have so much extra capacity it's not even worth hesitating to turn on all sorts of background services these days. Configuration management, integrity checking, backups, compression, encryption, software dedup, we don't think twice about this stuff anymore.
High capacity, high load, small working set size, minuscule physical memory, and a local filesystem... where is that combo in the real world?
A real system where ZFS is too "bloated" to use would mean I'd be afraid to install a backup agent or run Puppet on it. This all seems very contrived.
You are funny, ZFS is a horrible resource pig. Many superior alternatives exist
Yup, boy did Sun call that one wrong, because spare processing & memory capacity haven't been steadily rising since ZFS's introduction at all, have they...
No. That's not how entanglement works. A better way of thinking about entanglement is imagining two fair coins that can be any distance apart and the first time you flip them, you are guaranteed that they'll either both be heads or both be tails. This isn't a perfect description, but this is close enough
Perhaps even better (per the analogy to particle-spins) is to imagine that one coin is guaranteed to be in the opposite state of the other, i.e., if one is heads, the other is tails.
Another important point is that you cannot control the outcome of the observation: you can't make your coin produce a head or tail, you can only flip it and see what happens. If your coin shows say, a head, then you know immediately that the other is a tail, no matter how far away it is -- but you can't control the outcome, so you can't use the observation to send a faster-than-light signal.
It's like mashing two TINY potatoes together and setting the remains aside. They are now entangled. When you observe one, you can infer the state of the other if neither had interacted with any potatoes in the meantime because if your potato is missing a hunk, it's probably stuck to the other one. We observe these tiny potatoes by throwing other little vegetables at them and observing the results, thus disentangling them in the process, because now you have broccoli guts all over.
It's "spooky" because you can separate the potatoes by any distance, and when you measure one, you know something about the other one even if it was eleven lightyears away. In other words, the potatoes are in a superposition of states until you measure them, and once you do, the other potato picks the opposite state, because I think Copenhagen interpretation of QM is absolute bulls*t.
It's gotten way better with 'connected-standby' on 8/10. Microsoft IMO though solved the suspend/resume problem by just making boot ridiculously fast in 8.1 and even faster in 10. The surface tablets I've had have never glitched out a single time and it does a really good job of going into hibernate, writing to disk and shutting down completely after a specified duration. Almost every time I resume a Surface it has already gone into full hibernation/shutdown. In fact I don't think after 8 you could actually shut down your computer instead of hibernate without going to a hidden shutdown option, it's just the default option.
They should stop the charade and call it Windows OS X already...
I wonder how many people would walk up to a stranger, grab their camera and throw it hard to the pavement - its much the same thing really.
I disagree. Its not the same thing at all, because any scenario involving a stranger involves a stranger.
It doesn't escalate straight to throwing the camera to the pavement because I have other options to engage the stranger.
But a drone 10 feet up? What am I supposed to do? Ask it politely to leave? I can do that to the stranger. I can also gauge his 'creepiness / intrusiveness' factor much easier as well; as well as how receptive he is to the fact that I'm not happy he's there, etc.
I agree with your reasoning.
I don't see why it's any different than someone tossing any object onto my yard, remote control or not, on the ground, in the air, in a tree, on my roof, all the same. I believe I have the right to physically move it if I don't want it there. No need to damage it more than necessary to move it, but I don't need to leave it there, and it's not like we can call for a professional tow as we would for a car. Something as expensive as a drone is going right to the police department for the owner to pick up.
If the owner wants to lower the chance of his expensive flying toy getting damaged, he would be flying it low and slow enough for someone to safely pick up. Um... as with anything else found in my yard, it was like that when I found it, as a general rule.
The mosaic theory wikipedia page (on the intelligence strategy) from the summary is not even REMOTELY close to the Fourth Amendment mosaic theory from the article, that the opinion relies on: http://repository.law.umich.ed...
So whoever made that mistake should also know the Fourth Circuit is talking about the paper, not the D&D stat.
I've seen this first-hand. A guy locally was going around with an up-skirt camera rig in his duffle-bag. I saw what was going on and alerted security, they called the cops... They said it was a public place with "no reasonable expectation of privacy" so as much as they wanted to get him, they didn't think it would hold. (The guy was long-gone by the time the cops arrived)
How could you NOT accidentally step on and kick a knee high camera that close? I'm really surprised nobody accidentally destroyed it and had to exchange information with the guy, you know, to replace it, or something.
Apple would never, ever, want to lock everyone in to their services. They seek to sell to the richest 20% of the people. Look at their product line: they never make anything at a price even close to the average for that classification of device type.
Their whole marketing scheme involves letting people feel elite for buying their products. That's how cult deals work.
So it's not that Apple's stuff is easier to use and the top 20% can afford more, it's about feelings...
No, I've watched national sports coverage of major games.
Compare them to what you get out of esports and you'll see esports for MAJOR games is already better.
As to dumb fucks... your inability to think rationally and instead descend into emotionalism is not helping you. It is ironic that people that make such insults tend to have to have them be more applicable to themselves than anything....Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Now... you show me a clip of a sports game that gives better coverage of a game.
You lose. Don't be stubborn. Just surrender. You're idiotically wrong.
That was terrible, I just watched two kids play a video game for ten minutes and one of them cried.
My little village has had ALR's on police cars parked in the village, outside the PD, for years.
The problem is not the reading, but the recording. If the ALR is on the police car, and it immediately beeps when a car drives by that is registered to someone wanted by the police, that is one thing. But recording and indefinitely storing a photo of every passing car is something else entirely.
Anyone could do this, if not now, certainly in ten years. There is really nothing preventing a smartphone in a GPS mount from doing this, though I can't think of any benefit to someone doing it.
I don't understand the problem. Maybe I will someday, because there doesn't seem to be a practical way to avoid this. It's like taking pictures or video in public. Is the answer to have maximum data retention laws? That apply to every level of government... only?
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Was having a conversation at work and we were talking about fake news and misinformation in general being harmful to people. I expressed my concern at the idea of, and my surprise people weren't talking about it already, misinformation becoming a crime and it becoming a slippery slope to the end of freedom of speech. This sounds like the first step in that direction thanks to Mr. Fuckerberg and his creation.
Freedom of speech will still be healthy, loud, and annoying long after regulatory requirements make it impossible for Mohammed in Iran to pretend to be Misha in Moscow on facebook.ru, and Mike in New York on facebook.com, and all the vice-versas.
90% of the problem is nobody knows anything about anyone else online. The other 10% is human nature nothing can fix.
Walmart won't even sell you a candy bar if you walk into the store with a bag over your head, but otherwise you are free to anonymously crop dust everyone in the greeting card isle and make fart noises with your mouth if that's your cup of tea. Problems like that are usually self-correcting... get kicked from store, physical altercations, play your hand in court, etc.
Facebook will let the guy that dismembered Jamal Khashoggi open an account, pretend to be an Irish housewife, and post pictures of dead kittens, to a global audience. If they actually manage to prevent any part of that from happening, they will grumble and complain it's not their job, and someone will cry about censorship.
Most of the actual problems with the Internet would fix themselves if we all said "what would meatspace do"
I thought the idea was that information wants to be free, and we shouldn't restrict content (unless it's clearly illegal, like child porn). Even if it's content you don't agree with...
The problem seems to be that folks have become reluctant to protect that most important free speech; the one you disagree with.
Freedom of speech does not mean lazily handing a global megaphone to everyone in the world, while you look away guilt-free and share no responsibilities for their actions, allow them to use it anonymously from literally anywhere on the planet WHILE totally misrepresenting themselves as anyone anywhere else on the planet.
In the same way that an individual right to bear arms does not mean we have to allow every person to rock surface to air missiles in their backyard, or sell them to people that can, or make, or own one, freedom of speech absolutely does not have to mean THAT.
Look, say if the King of England had allowed free speech, when "Jeff in Lexington" says something obscene about colonial aspirations, that's speech we can just disagree with. Some people did support the monarchy in colonial America after all.
When "Jeff in Lexington", "Anonymous in Boston", "Real Paul Revere2", and "George Wash1ngton" are all propaganda spewing sock puppets being run directly from the King's Court, then we might not have had a Boston Tea Party, we might have had a Boston Printing Press Party, because that's not free speech, that's an affront to free speech.
You can thank the nytimes for providing absolutely NOTHING of value to this story.
This is juvenile. I like Gizmodo's Adam and David example, but all of their quotes are right out of the report itself aside from this one.
"As one of the report’s co-authors told The New York Times,"
The NYT article goes further than internet searches for background info. ..." ..." ..."
"John Wagner, deputy executive assistant commissioner for field operations at Customs and Border Protection, said
"Laura Moy, who helped write the report, said
"But Senators Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, expressed concerns
"In 1996, Congress ordered the federal government to develop a tracking system for people who overstayed their entry visas. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, an entry- and exit-tracking system was seen as a vital national security and counterterrorism tool. The 9/11 Commission recommended in 2004 that the newly-developed Department of Homeland Security complete a system “as soon as possible.” Congress has since passed seven separate laws requiring biometric entry-exit screening."
NOTHING of value?
Let's play a game. You name a group and/or a prominent person, who did not endorse/vote for Hillary Clinton, and I'll find a group and/or a prominent person denouncing him/them as a "Nazi".
Mike Pence ...
Mitch McConnell
John McCain
Mitt Romney
John Kasich
I mean, really ... I listen to an AM radio station ALL DAY, I know what stupid game you're playing. Every day it's New York Times said this, no good rotten failing New York Times said that, trying hard to be victims and beet pills.
If you are using Windows then you are forfeiting a major advantage: absolute control of your system. Windows cannot even be trusted to respect it's own system settings let alone be worthy of being trusted.
Here's the thing about control, that computer is on your desk. Physical access is absolute control, what you lack is ability. What you're really looking for is something that cooperates with you. THAT doesn't have to be free. For many people, for many purposes, that's Windows.
You should be suspicious of software written by corporations because their motive is profit, not security or even user satisfaction.
Sure... also don't eat their food, that's how they get you with the chemicals!
There is complexity in running an estate with multiple OS on offer but the truth is, any sysadmins capable of running a *nix infrastructure and operation should find supporting and mainlining other OS estates relatively straightforward.
Salty Linux & Solaris SA: If you can afford a *nix sysadmin team, you can afford a contractor to install and run Windows management infrastructure while you look for a permanent hire.
Anyone's capable of learning Mandarin, and it'd be swell if everyone learned another language, but don't tell me to start doing "just" half my work in it next week... "cause you're smart." I'm not that stupid.
Uh, he was the recipient. Maybe you should learn how to read better.
Why isn't this story 110% about the sender?
You know, the person that mailed a $10,000 collection uninsured, in two reused boxes taped together and bound with paper, with no address slips inside the boxes to be studied in a foreign country, AND RETURNED...
But whose loss was it? OMG we almost lost our ROMs, the humanity, nobody talk about the sender/packager!!!11
I'm the submitter. I don't care if he stomps kittens in his spare time, and I doubt I've seen three of his videos before today. The dishonesty and cynicism here shown by allegedly reputable mainstream media outlets here is astonishing.
He may well be a troll. Entirely possible. But the videos I've thus far seen were not of a trollish cast, and the "Death to All Jews" one in particular is not remotely anti-semitic. If you genuinely believe it to be so, you may be from an actual intellectual, emotional or perceptual disorder of some sort.
This latest response is perfectly timed, just as the flames were dying down he fans them and gets another round of attention.
If this is the current state of the media, if this is the sort of hyperbole we're going to be subjected to for the next four years, if this is the new McCarthyism, then these are flames that need flaming, be it by trolls or non-trolls.
On a personal note here: it's not like I really fear some totalitarianism of the left, either. I don't think they can win this war... not in America, anyway. But I do rather fear the consequences of proving Trump right, of validating the echo chambers of tens of millions of people who were right-leaning fence sitters until they saw the proof stack up that the mainstream media really is full of hysterical, baldfaced lies.
Has it always been *this* bad? Fuck me, I'd better stop before I start saying "woke".
If advertisers don't want to do business with him because of his actions, that's that. Advertising execs are big boys, they make their own decisions. This is Internet advertising, it could be flipped back on like a light switch if they change their minds.
This sounds about as loopy as Trump's blaming the media for firing Flynn for lying to his VP.
I wonder how RHEL and my local IT group can keep the workstation I use in working condition without asking to restart the workstation at all...
I'm a seasoned Linux SA. In my experience, many Linux users are (unwittingly?) betting on known vulnerabilities not being exploited due to Linux having a lower profile and its users having better than average safe computing practices. For example, scummy websites offering "Free email emoticon packs - download HERE (emoticoninstall.sh)" just isn't a thing like it is on more popular systems, but at the same time could be equally dangerous. Kind of like with the elusive Mac virus, we should still be vigilant even if the threat isn't obviously present.
You can confirm with the lsof command if they are installing security updates and not restarting any processes using the affected files. If they haven't asked you to log out weekly then it's extremely likely they are just installing the update files at best. Then of course there's the kernel which flat out requires a reboot to take effect. There's a better chance of snowballs in hell than your RHEL workstation having all affected processes restarted for each update and kernel updates being spliced in without interrupting your use of the system.
Here's the last 20 CentOS security alerts, notice two kernel updates. How do your IT people know (if these were even installed) which are actually resolved?
I only had to click next once or twice to see nss in the list, a library that will be in use by dozens of processes on any system.
It really is a good practice to do a reboot after applying updates or on a schedule to keep everything consistent. Then your admins can say from this point on, 100% of known vulnerabilities have been addressed, because you can't say that by just running a yum update every day.
https://lwn.net/Alerts/CentOS/
CESA-2017:0190 firefox 2017-01-26
CESA-2017:0183 squid34 2017-01-26
CESA-2017:0184 mysql 2017-01-26
CESA-2017:0190 firefox 2017-01-26
CESA-2017:0190 firefox 2017-01-26
CESA-2017:0182 squid 2017-01-26
CESA-2017:0180 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2017-01-21
CESA-2017:0180 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2017-01-21
CESA-2017:0086 kernel 2017-01-19
CESA-2017:0083 qemu-kvm 2017-01-18
CESA-2017:0064 bind97 2017-01-17
CESA-2017:0063 bind 2017-01-17
CESA-2017:0062 bind 2017-01-17
CESA-2017:0063 bind 2017-01-17
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CESA-2017:0061 java-1.6.0-openjdk 2017-01-12
CESA-2017:0061 java-1.6.0-openjdk 2017-01-12
CESA-2017:0036 kernel 2017-01-12
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CESA-2017:0018 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free 2017-01-09
Another vote for SVN (Subversion) here. You can spin up an SVN server on Ubuntu in about 30 minutes. Then add the web front end in another 10. A WEALTH of clients in both GUI and non-GUI for all platforms. And it is lightweight on the client side. (Only has a single version locally) The code is very mature, and you do not have to worry about patches often, and it is just easy to use.
However, it is missing some things on your "Things that would be great" list, but not many. Not at all with some of the larg ammount of tools and addons built for SVN.
If it doesn't REALLY need to be on a Linux system, you can get Apache+SVN up and running in about a minute with VisualSVN Server. Domain integration, GUI for fine grained access controls, and it's all brain-dead simple and free.
CollabNet seems to have something similar called Subversion Edge for multiple platforms, but I haven't used it and they were late to the game.
I wouldn't recommend anyone roll their own svn+apache system. It's not worth even ten minutes of your time when those tested, out-of-os-distro stacks are available free.
Ok, why do they even need to know if the car is in MOTION at all just to play music??
All of my car stereos so far, have never had to have any connection to car info to play my songs as I barrel down the road. On custom installs, I've never hooked to any of the car data, etc.
Why would an entertainment system need to know any of that information at all?
My car stereo from 2005 increases the volume as my speed increases, and that feature probably goes way back.
Then there's maybe the option to suppress notifications while you're driving some people might like.
Who's software is responsible for displaying the backup camera view, and what draws all the overlay info on that screen? The infotainment system right?
I don't really get when people say that software isn't compatible with touch. All a mouse does is points and clicks, which you can do with your finger. I use a remote desktop app called 'Jump' on Android and it works on a regular desktop just fine.
I hope your version of hell, should you get there, is eternally manipulating a scrollbar widget by finger in a tiny display which pans around in an infinitely large display. If you move off the track half an inch, it snaps back to to the bottom where a little note says "touch compatible".
I never realized that Windows uses a unix-like file hierarchy.
According to the article, drive C: is actually a symbolic link to \Device\HarddiskVolume4, COM3 is \Device\Serial0 and so on.
I'm surprised, frankly. My exposure to Windows is pretty much nil (and I like it that way) but I always assumed that the the C: drive and COM: stuff was a completely different way of accessing the devices and whatnot than what Unix uses. Apparently, it's actually quite similar once you get under the hood.
Learn something new every day....
The NT object manager, doesn't that have more in common with VMS than UNIX?
Linux's sysfs is similar, in ways, but neither of these are unix-like unless... um, all hierarchies of objects are unix-like?
If you're sincerely interested in OS internals, you should expose yourself to other systems without prejudice. Otherwise, everything "tastes like chicken".
You won't be hooking 4TB of storage to that 4GB server and running ZFS under load
Modern servers, even desktops have so much extra capacity it's not even worth hesitating to turn on all sorts of background services these days. Configuration management, integrity checking, backups, compression, encryption, software dedup, we don't think twice about this stuff anymore.
High capacity, high load, small working set size, minuscule physical memory, and a local filesystem... where is that combo in the real world?
A real system where ZFS is too "bloated" to use would mean I'd be afraid to install a backup agent or run Puppet on it. This all seems very contrived.
You are funny, ZFS is a horrible resource pig. Many superior alternatives exist
Yup, boy did Sun call that one wrong, because spare processing & memory capacity haven't been steadily rising since ZFS's introduction at all, have they...
No. That's not how entanglement works. A better way of thinking about entanglement is imagining two fair coins that can be any distance apart and the first time you flip them, you are guaranteed that they'll either both be heads or both be tails. This isn't a perfect description, but this is close enough
Perhaps even better (per the analogy to particle-spins) is to imagine that one coin is guaranteed to be in the opposite state of the other, i.e., if one is heads, the other is tails.
Another important point is that you cannot control the outcome of the observation: you can't make your coin produce a head or tail, you can only flip it and see what happens. If your coin shows say, a head, then you know immediately that the other is a tail, no matter how far away it is -- but you can't control the outcome, so you can't use the observation to send a faster-than-light signal.
It's like mashing two TINY potatoes together and setting the remains aside. They are now entangled. When you observe one, you can infer the state of the other if neither had interacted with any potatoes in the meantime because if your potato is missing a hunk, it's probably stuck to the other one. We observe these tiny potatoes by throwing other little vegetables at them and observing the results, thus disentangling them in the process, because now you have broccoli guts all over.
It's "spooky" because you can separate the potatoes by any distance, and when you measure one, you know something about the other one even if it was eleven lightyears away. In other words, the potatoes are in a superposition of states until you measure them, and once you do, the other potato picks the opposite state, because I think Copenhagen interpretation of QM is absolute bulls*t.
It's gotten way better with 'connected-standby' on 8/10. Microsoft IMO though solved the suspend/resume problem by just making boot ridiculously fast in 8.1 and even faster in 10. The surface tablets I've had have never glitched out a single time and it does a really good job of going into hibernate, writing to disk and shutting down completely after a specified duration. Almost every time I resume a Surface it has already gone into full hibernation/shutdown. In fact I don't think after 8 you could actually shut down your computer instead of hibernate without going to a hidden shutdown option, it's just the default option.
They should stop the charade and call it Windows OS X already...
I wonder how many people would walk
up to a stranger, grab their camera and throw it hard to the pavement - its much the same thing really.
I disagree. Its not the same thing at all, because any scenario involving a stranger involves a stranger.
It doesn't escalate straight to throwing the camera to the pavement because I have other options to engage the stranger.
But a drone 10 feet up? What am I supposed to do? Ask it politely to leave? I can do that to the stranger. I can also gauge his 'creepiness / intrusiveness' factor much easier as well; as well as how receptive he is to the fact that I'm not happy he's there, etc.
I agree with your reasoning.
I don't see why it's any different than someone tossing any object onto my yard, remote control or not, on the ground, in the air, in a tree, on my roof, all the same. I believe I have the right to physically move it if I don't want it there. No need to damage it more than necessary to move it, but I don't need to leave it there, and it's not like we can call for a professional tow as we would for a car. Something as expensive as a drone is going right to the police department for the owner to pick up.
If the owner wants to lower the chance of his expensive flying toy getting damaged, he would be flying it low and slow enough for someone to safely pick up. Um... as with anything else found in my yard, it was like that when I found it, as a general rule.
You gotta put all the nasty bits in a roll cage, and only one motor to fail
and how many control surfaces?
The mosaic theory wikipedia page (on the intelligence strategy) from the summary is not even REMOTELY close to the Fourth Amendment mosaic theory from the article, that the opinion relies on: http://repository.law.umich.ed...
So whoever made that mistake should also know the Fourth Circuit is talking about the paper, not the D&D stat.
I've seen this first-hand. A guy locally was going around with an up-skirt camera rig in his duffle-bag. I saw what was going on and alerted security, they called the cops... They said it was a public place with "no reasonable expectation of privacy" so as much as they wanted to get him, they didn't think it would hold. (The guy was long-gone by the time the cops arrived)
How could you NOT accidentally step on and kick a knee high camera that close? I'm really surprised nobody accidentally destroyed it and had to exchange information with the guy, you know, to replace it, or something.
Apple would never, ever, want to lock everyone in to their services. They seek to sell to the richest 20% of the people. Look at their product line: they never make anything at a price even close to the average for that classification of device type.
Their whole marketing scheme involves letting people feel elite for buying their products. That's how cult deals work.
So it's not that Apple's stuff is easier to use and the top 20% can afford more, it's about feelings...
The only thing you need to reach that demographic are naked tits on a screen.
esports are dirt cheap to produce, like reality TV shows and pop music. Don't ask anyone to take it seriously.
No, I've watched national sports coverage of major games.
Compare them to what you get out of esports and you'll see esports for MAJOR games is already better.
As to dumb fucks... your inability to think rationally and instead descend into emotionalism is not helping you. It is ironic that people that make such insults tend to have to have them be more applicable to themselves than anything. ...Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Now... you show me a clip of a sports game that gives better coverage of a game.
You lose. Don't be stubborn. Just surrender. You're idiotically wrong.
That was terrible, I just watched two kids play a video game for ten minutes and one of them cried.
My little village has had ALR's on police cars parked in the village, outside the PD, for years.
The problem is not the reading, but the recording. If the ALR is on the police car, and it immediately beeps when a car drives by that is registered to someone wanted by the police, that is one thing. But recording and indefinitely storing a photo of every passing car is something else entirely.
Anyone could do this, if not now, certainly in ten years. There is really nothing preventing a smartphone in a GPS mount from doing this, though I can't think of any benefit to someone doing it.
I don't understand the problem. Maybe I will someday, because there doesn't seem to be a practical way to avoid this. It's like taking pictures or video in public. Is the answer to have maximum data retention laws? That apply to every level of government... only?