You won't find a cheaper way to cover the loss and there is no way to prevent it from being stolen for a reasonable amount of money. As it can be lifted into a truck, taken out and dismantled and any anti=theft system defeated before you can finish reading this response...
This is one of a dozen or so posts here categorically suggesting insurance...
Why assume insurance covering replacement due to theft of a $5K scooter to be used on a college campus, that could be tossed in a pickup by one person, is automatically going to be a good deal, for someone of average college attending age? You are also assuming the thing isn't financed because otherwise this insurance would be a given. I'm a not a rocket scientist, but I was under the impression that things you can afford to buy out of pocket are not the smartest things to buy comprehensive insurance policies on.
Anyone care to give ballpark quotes with deductibles for similar things and situations? It's pretty stupid to flat out recommend insurance for anything without getting actual quotes - AND various anti-theft and recovery systems will get you lower premiums. All of this needs to be weighed against the risk and other factors like is this your only method of transportation, does your wellbeing depend on having a scooter, etc, vs. price of replacing it yourself to know if it's a good investment.
What are your sources for insurance costs? Simply "insurance" is not a helpful tip.
Why not also require them to make copies of their house keys for each other so they and their lawyers can go into each other's houses any time they want and rummage through each other's files, look for evidence of affairs in their bedrooms, look for property not reported in the divorce proceedings, look for signs of alcohol or drugs or depression or other personal factors that might have some bearing on the case?
Are you really comparing facebook to a residence? I'm going to throw up now, thanks for that.
I don't think the Internet and _especially_ your Facebook page is covered by the 4th amendment. Plus houses, cars, photo albums, money, all that has to be split up, why not stuff published to the Internet?
To extend your own example, that would be like owning a second house during the marriage, filling it with stuff, and at divorce claiming it was off limits. Tell me how that would work.
And VISA, MasterCard, et al. will continue to collect their money off of your credit card purchases. Sure it doesn't come out of your pocket directly, but it sure acts as pressure to retailers to raise prices. If you really want to do banks in, use cash for everything, but that seems to be downright prehistoric now days.
Where do you get your cash from? An ATM with all its fees?
Oh no, you'd go to a teller because they're "free" volunteers I bet, and you'd ask them to cash your check for "free" because they just turn it over and print the cash on the backside of scrap paper with recycled ink.
The way it works is banks provide you a service, and they take their cut.
Well, unless your employer pays you in cash, then I suppose you'd have me there unless you ask them if it would save them money to cut you a check or direct deposit instead of sending a secretary to the bank to pick up your cash every week. From a bank.
I pay 0% on my credit cards. The credit card bills are automatically taken out of my checking account at the end of the month.
You probably even get paid 1% or so of your purchases back in some manner too. You're not beating the system or anything, you're feeding it interchange fees by using it more frequently for incidentals and reoccurring payments.
Also, I suspect with a high degree of certainty that your available credit far exceeds what you are capable of paying off in one month, because.. well, that is really the reason to have it for one thing, and your bank/CU knows how big your paychecks are. Sooner or later you'll use it to finance something because it's the most convenient option, and for that convenience it really isn't that horrible.
I'm not complaining, I do what you do too, but these guys get paid either way, trust me. It's shocking I know.. it costs money to move money around./sarcasm. CU's and banks do have to make money, banks just need to make a little more.
There is nothing exoteric or baffling with the filesytem of Linux. It is well-specified. There's a folder for executables, a folder for binaries, a folder for configuration data, a folder for temporary stuff. And its layout hasn't changed for 20 years.
Right, because computers haven't changed much in the last twenty years probably.
WHY do you cut every single program into little pieces and box them together?
Look at the RHEL Tomcat RPM, compare to traditional/opt/tomcat or/usr/local/tomcat or even/tomcat
WHY does anyone think cutting that or any application into ten different directories, mixing its private bits with private bits of completely unrelated programs is a good idea?
I can think of reasons to seperate user configuration and data from non-user things from log files, but not for mixing that shit in with similar data from other apps categorically.
Although this proposal sounds reasonable at first, actually implementing it is troublesome. Linux systems have an expectation that the root directory / and the/usr directory may be on different filesystems; thus/bin is expected to come with / and be available at boot time, where/usr may not be. This means that making/bin ->/usr/bin via a softlink would break that.
Uh.. what expects/usr to be a separate filesystem? Where? Which decade?
There is no major nail in coffin situation for pc games any more as they are ports of software to run on 6+ year old, cheaply made game consoles, even if your system does suck, drop the resolution and effects a bit and your good to go.
^ You don't get it. PC gaming is just a shadow now.
The PC being open and accessible drove innovation. It was about way more than special effects and resolution. Modding, public level editors, scripting tools, free server code, etc. all defined 90's PC gaming. Now you've got about the same big companies driving all platforms, with about the same features.
All the innovation you see on fledgling platforms like iOS and Android - just wait until The Big Game Manufacturers take them over too, in years to come. PC Gaming went Hollywood, that's what happened. It went full retard, Walmart Hollywood. It's still open to innovators, you just have to try harder to find indy gems, and they rarely win big audiences.
Java (or more correctly; its user base) has been crying out for some sort of faster startup since the mid 90s. No other problem has done more to keep Java off the desktop that the very slow startup times. If Java applets started as quickly as Flash objects manage to then we would still be seeing Java implemented on major web sites. I could never understand why Java doesn't snapshot and cache a prelinked version of a class the first time it loads, if anything the JVM is getting slower - the demo Java Applets on my website take about as long to start up in 2011 as they did in 2000 but my computer is many times faster.
Maybe the Java that ships with OS X is specially optimized (I'm joking), but the background of your website takes longer to load and render than any of your applets do. link
This is fast enough for CLI usage outside of tight loops. For repeated usage, I'll concede you'd be better off finding a way to feed bulk data in rather than small chunks. echo "class Hello {public static void main(String args[]) {System.out.println(\"Hello World\");}}" > Hello.java && javac Hello.java && time java Hello Hello World
real 0m0.189s user 0m0.210s sys 0m0.033s
I understand Java is generally no speed demon compared to native compiled code, and desktop hard drive performance has almost stood still for ten years, but come on. I have a *very* hard time believing that Java load times are as big a limiting factor in desktop app production than people make it appear to be.
unless I can install an alternate OS and have hardware level access.
Why do you want a console to be a general purpose computer? We have those.
If general purpose computers leave you wanting, then why direct complaints at console manufacturers?
I suppose you would still like the console hardware to be subsidized by software that wouldn't run in the configuration you would purportedly buy it for, right? Of course!
Other OS was a mistake, it should not have even existed. Nor does it need to exist, and it did not have full hardware access, ever. Sony is/was boneheaded for sure. The bigger mistake was including it in the first place, not removing it. Sony must have thought it would drive cell processor interest. Assuming the next PlayStation will use the same architecture, I can't imagine why they would put themselves at risk of another hypervisor routing.
insisting he needed a state permit to film a movie in the park. Bigfoot stepped up with a lawsuit, alleging that the park's permit regulations are unconstitutional. The New Hampshire Supreme Court next month will hear Doyle's complaint. Though many elements of the dispute border on the absurd, the case raises some serious free speech issues."
What does filming location have to do with free speech?
Google has said for quite some time that Gingerbread was available, that Honeycomb would be closed and only suited for tablets and that Ice Cream Sandwich would have the source available once it was released. Google was true to their word and everything for 2.x is available and 3.x is closed. The post linked to in the main article is the sources they are required to release (GPL) now that the Ice Cream Sandwich SDK is available. It should be noted that Ice Cream Sandwich itself as an OS has not been released and is not available on any shipping product. They've already said "We plan to release the source for the recently-announced Ice Cream Sandwich soon, once itâ(TM)s available on devices." It's not available on devices yet.
Not disputing the FUD.
But... Android is "open source" on the same terms Solaris is "open source" now? You have to laugh at this, the most lauded example of Linux and Open Source making it mainstream.
Kind of like how those people who "work" 12 hours a day, brag about it, and lag behind people who work an honest 8 hours a day in productive because they spend most of the time at the watercooler or on the internet. Seriously, when you're driving, please drive - stop overestimating your abilities when they really get reduced by not paying attention. If you don't want to do that, either carpool with someone who doesn't have that problem and is willing to drive, or use mass transit.
But stfu because you can't stop diddling with your smartphone for 30 seconds and want to bullshit the rest of us that you're just as good with it as without it.
You know, we can be more objective about this. The parent was talking about talking on a phone while driving with and without a headset. Simply having a conversation while driving can lower your response times, and having one free hand during that puts you at a stupidly high risk for what you're accomplishing. Still, you can mitigate some of the risk by choosing carefully when and when not to have a conversation in the car. Some people even turn the radio down when driving gets tense. I might accept a short call on the highway but not even consider using a phone driving through an intersection, phone or no phone, it's important to know when to tune everything out but the road around you.
Things that divert your eyes from the road for seconds at a time, that's a whole other league of risk that I doubt anyone would argue. There's different levels of risk in all this, starting when you turn the car on.
None of this means banning X while driving is the best way of changing people's behavior though. This sort of sounds like abstinance vs. sex education to me... with a ban you might only be setting yourselves up for higher contrast between poor decision makers and good ones rather than reducing number of bad decisions.
A lot of ad-supported sites will do this. They'll release an article and split it up into multiple pages so they can display more ads. What happens when an article like that gets posted to slashdot? Everyone understandably complains that it's harder to read the article, and somebody posts a link to the printer-friendly version.
Multiple pages are not easier to navigate. Not even on tablets.
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Hate to tell you this, but they killed OpenSolaris a long time ago.
... as far as aspiring 3rd party Solaris contributors were concerned. For everyone else it was just renamed to Solaris 11 Express.
They probably suddenly ended transparency of Solaris development because they intend to phase it out, port everything to Linux and give it away./sarcasm
So, are they porting Solaris functionality to OEL as a precursor to phasing out Solaris entirely? It would suck to see Solaris go from a nostalgia point of view, but it never made much sense to me why one company would continue to develop two Unix-like operating systems.
I think it's more that they want to continue to differentiate OEL from RHEL and provide a direct migration path for RedHat customers to a full Oracle system.
Linux just doesn't make sense in my mind for the space Oracle's software competes in. It's not enterprise friendly. No stable driver ABI. No system interface stability standards. Nothing like Projects, iostat doesn't show tape drives, kernel and userland lack cohesion, to name few of my personal nitpicks, but overall... very little progress. A lot of things you can't change merely by running your own distro. I mean has it really changed the way we work over the last ten years? It feels stagnated while Solaris gets things like Projects, ZFS, dtrace, zones, native fibre channel stack, microstate accounting, init replacement, fault management, and I could go on and on and on. Linux picked up a journaled filesystem at some point in the last ten years/facepalm.
Nobody can convince me Linux should be The One Way forward while it still doesn't have userland utilities for managing SCSI and FC devices. sudo su -c "echo - - - >/sys/foo/wthrufingseriousbro" That right there is so telling of the level of commitment put towards making Linux a decent server OS. Even fast forwarding to the latest upstream bits (which is cheating because you lose any semblance of interface stability RedHat might provide), I'm not convinced.
If Oracle did port all the cools bits of Solaris over to Linux, the result would have as much in common with Linux as FCoE has with Ethernet. They're not just going to give that to RedHat...
Phoronix has issues because the guy running it likes to oversensationalize and hyperbolize to get traffic and ad revenue... which is to say it's exactly like Slashdot with the difference being that Phoronix actually does some useful work and there are valuable facts that Phoronix discovers.
The (multiple) kernel power bugs are a very real problem affecting a large number of Linux users and Phoronix helped to shine a light on the issue and at least get the word out about work-arounds. I don't hang on everything that Phoronix publishes, but dismissing it just shows that you want to remain wilfully ignorant about real issues surrounding Linux so that you can appear 'l33t' to your friends.
For £349, you could very decent laptop... This being Slashdot, I kinda skimmed TFA rather than actually reading it, but are they seriously selling the Chromebook for that much money? That's ridiculous. I was able to buy a 3lb 13" ultraportable for about £250 ($400 CAD), and if I'd had another $150 in the budget for it, I could have upgraded it quite nicely. And that's not even considering other form factors that are a lot cheaper, like a 14" or a 15" laptop where you're not as concerned about weight.
Lex talionis mofos.
Can I be the first to say Google Tax?
I will go to the mat with "I can build a system _!EXACTLY!_ like it for less, but I don't want this and that feature or the form factor, Google always charges more for the same, GOOGLE TAX!1"
Is it necessary to point out that they could have done worse? The bank robber that could have murdered all the hostages and set fire to the bank is still a criminal is still a bank robber and still a criminal.
What is the intent of writing things this way, to make us think they were doing us a favor?
That's not to say that you can recover data with the platters removed
What don't you people understand here? From the link tossed around here a dozen times already..
"There are, from manufacturers sales figures, several thousand SPM's in use in the field today, some of which have special features for analysing disk drive platters, such as the vacuum chucks for standard disk drive platters along with specialised modes of operation for magnetic media analysis. These SPM's can be used with sophisticated programmable controllers and analysis software to allow automation of the data recovery process. If commercially-available SPM's are considered too expensive, it is possible to build a reasonably capable SPM for about US$1400, using a PC as a controller [6]."
Quit saying MAYBE, there are specialized tools being made for this task. They will continue to get better.
You are absolutely deluded if you guys think think your information is safe because it is hard to recover _today_ and think it will not be valuable the _day after_ you throw a drive out. Recovery techniques will get cheaper and more accessible over time, and your most sensitive information is sensitive for DECADES, maybe your whole life! Meanwhile, discarded drives are frozen in time, and you HOPE your data will be overwritten more than once by non-guessable data. Forget today's hard drives... twenty year old hard drives are cheap, not regarded as insecure, easy to recover data from, and still might have sensitive financial information. Why would't the same be true twenty years from now? They might have pocket scanning electron microscopes then!
Write random data, at least once, for your own good, twice if you have the time.
After reading up on the theory of data recovery, why would you even consider plain zeroing, as esoteric as the drive encoding might be?
Since PRML codes don't try to separate peaks in the same way that non-PRML RLL codes do, all we can do is to write a variety of random patterns because the processing inside the drive is too complex to second- guess.
A good scrubbing with random data will do about as well as can be expected.
In the time since this paper was published, some people have treated the 35-pass overwrite technique described in it more as a kind of voodoo incantation to banish evil spirits than the result of a technical analysis of drive encoding techniques. As a result, they advocate applying the voodoo to PRML and EPRML drives even though it will have no more effect than a simple scrubbing with random data.
From your own link. Nowhere in there does it say one pass of an easily guessable pattern (all 0's, REALLY?) is sufficient. The very first pass listed is "Random". One pass of zeros is stupider than the full 7 or 35 pass overwrite...
I can't stand "security" people in business in general with this impulsive urge to physically destroy hard drives because of the data they stored. Go do some googling, a simple ONE PASS of 0's on the disk WILL make the data absoloutely, without question unrecoverable, anyone who tells you otherwise is in to voodoo and black magic or trying to make some profit.
A huge amount of these "security professionals" insist on trashing perfectly good hardware for no apparent reason, it's a complete was of good resources. The amount of perfectly good disks I've seen killed is astounding and not always old clunkers either, some relatively decent sized, high performing disks to boot.
DBAN doesn't take forever either, hook them up to a spare PC and fire it off, change the disks every couple of hours, infact if I recall DBAN supports multiple drives at the same time. Sure if you have a 40gb IDE or something, just drill a hole in it - but if you're trashing anything over 160gb you're starting to ruin perfectly good hardware, for the sake of being pedantic and frankly stupid - stop and just don't do it. This goes for anyone else suggesting the same thing, go and do some reading before believing any of this "must be 12pass write" rubbish to a disk. FWIW A good 0 write to a disk doesn't normally take more than a few hours.
Published research says otherwise...
If you're going to make one pass, at least write random data, not zeros you bozo.
Clause 1. If you deliver software with complete and buildable source code and a license that allows disabling any functionality or code by the licensee, then your liability is limited to a refund.
Sorry, the point of this legislation would be to encourage MORE responsibility, not LESS.
"Here's the source code to your car's ECU, and uh, because we made that available we're not responsible in any way for any damages or injury to yourself or others even if you _don't_ choose/care to modify your car. Thanks a _bunch_ to the Open ECU Lobby, we think this is in the best interest of _everyone_"
... and DRAC remote console on any Dell server among many other things.
You can infer a lot from the "Java is dead" crowd, like they probably don't have a job in IT, or they don't use UNIX, like to say things are dead a lot, etc.
This statement is a direct result of the loss of true scientific method today. When science becomes essentially nothing but religion, people start trying to apply it to religion itself. No, you cannot apply true science to religions questions. There are no experiments you can perform in that venue.
Uhhh.. WHAT? How is forming strong opinions on "the untestable" a part of the scientific method, good science, or even a good idea? Religion is a response to a set of silly, unanswerable questions. "Why am I here?"/facepalm
It's OK to have unanswerable questions, why can't they be left that way? What sort of discipline is used to draw up answers in the form of a religion? Why should any one religion on Earth be given more weight than any other if they are all equally unverifiable, unprovable, and unconnected? What reason do you have for offering answers to unanswerable questions?
No, it isn't. CS is programming. IT is the maintenance of computer systems. That's like saying the guy who fixes your car and the guy who designs the engine are in the same field. They aren't.
While an IT worker may do some light programming in his job, the average IT worker is not a programmer, and does not have the skill set to be one. You do a disservice to yourself and the understanding of the industry by continuing to perpetuate this mistake. The two fields are totally separate, and conflating the two only causes confusion.
What GD planet do you and your moderators come from? IT is the name of the whole industry that employs both programmers and system admins.
On top of that, you called everything outside of software development "maintenance". As if there aren't software developers out there stuck in maintenance mode, or people actually building and integrating infrastructure from diverse sources, including but not limited to software.
In your own analogy, the guy fixing the car would also be a software developer! Then we have the driver, which I'm sure is what you are calling "IT". What department designs and builds all the roads, bridges, garages, gas stations, police departments, etc?? Cities don't just appear from nowhere, and they constantly change, just like IT infrastructure.
You seem to really underestimate how much further work writing software enables or necessitates. It's like making a quilt, where software developers are behind.. who knows, maybe half of the patches that go into it.
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You won't find a cheaper way to cover the loss and there is no way to prevent it from being stolen for a reasonable amount of money. As it can be lifted into a truck, taken out and dismantled and any anti=theft system defeated before you can finish reading this response...
This is one of a dozen or so posts here categorically suggesting insurance...
Why assume insurance covering replacement due to theft of a $5K scooter to be used on a college campus, that could be tossed in a pickup by one person, is automatically going to be a good deal, for someone of average college attending age? You are also assuming the thing isn't financed because otherwise this insurance would be a given. I'm a not a rocket scientist, but I was under the impression that things you can afford to buy out of pocket are not the smartest things to buy comprehensive insurance policies on.
Anyone care to give ballpark quotes with deductibles for similar things and situations? It's pretty stupid to flat out recommend insurance for anything without getting actual quotes - AND various anti-theft and recovery systems will get you lower premiums. All of this needs to be weighed against the risk and other factors like is this your only method of transportation, does your wellbeing depend on having a scooter, etc, vs. price of replacing it yourself to know if it's a good investment.
What are your sources for insurance costs? Simply "insurance" is not a helpful tip.
Why not also require them to make copies of their house keys for each other so they and their lawyers can go into each other's houses any time they want and rummage through each other's files, look for evidence of affairs in their bedrooms, look for property not reported in the divorce proceedings, look for signs of alcohol or drugs or depression or other personal factors that might have some bearing on the case?
Are you really comparing facebook to a residence?
I'm going to throw up now, thanks for that.
I don't think the Internet and _especially_ your Facebook page is covered by the 4th amendment. Plus houses, cars, photo albums, money, all that has to be split up, why not stuff published to the Internet?
To extend your own example, that would be like owning a second house during the marriage, filling it with stuff, and at divorce claiming it was off limits. Tell me how that would work.
And VISA, MasterCard, et al. will continue to collect their money off of your credit card purchases. Sure it doesn't come out of your pocket directly, but it sure acts as pressure to retailers to raise prices. If you really want to do banks in, use cash for everything, but that seems to be downright prehistoric now days.
Where do you get your cash from? An ATM with all its fees?
Oh no, you'd go to a teller because they're "free" volunteers I bet, and you'd ask them to cash your check for "free" because they just turn it over and print the cash on the backside of scrap paper with recycled ink.
The way it works is banks provide you a service, and they take their cut.
Well, unless your employer pays you in cash, then I suppose you'd have me there unless you ask them if it would save them money to cut you a check or direct deposit instead of sending a secretary to the bank to pick up your cash every week. From a bank.
Money does't move for free. Period.
I pay 0% on my credit cards. The credit card bills are automatically taken out of my checking account at the end of the month.
You probably even get paid 1% or so of your purchases back in some manner too. You're not beating the system or anything, you're feeding it interchange fees by using it more frequently for incidentals and reoccurring payments.
Also, I suspect with a high degree of certainty that your available credit far exceeds what you are capable of paying off in one month, because.. well, that is really the reason to have it for one thing, and your bank/CU knows how big your paychecks are. Sooner or later you'll use it to finance something because it's the most convenient option, and for that convenience it really isn't that horrible.
I'm not complaining, I do what you do too, but these guys get paid either way, trust me. It's shocking I know.. it costs money to move money around. /sarcasm. CU's and banks do have to make money, banks just need to make a little more.
There is nothing exoteric or baffling with the filesytem of Linux.
It is well-specified. There's a folder for executables, a folder for binaries, a folder for configuration data, a folder for temporary stuff. And its layout hasn't changed for 20 years.
Right, because computers haven't changed much in the last twenty years probably.
WHY do you cut every single program into little pieces and box them together?
Look at the RHEL Tomcat RPM, compare to traditional /opt/tomcat or /usr/local/tomcat or even /tomcat
WHY does anyone think cutting that or any application into ten different directories, mixing its private bits with private bits of completely unrelated programs is a good idea?
I can think of reasons to seperate user configuration and data from non-user things from log files, but not for mixing that shit in with similar data from other apps categorically.
Although this proposal sounds reasonable at first, actually implementing it is troublesome. Linux systems have an expectation that the root directory / and the /usr directory may be on different filesystems; thus /bin is expected to come with / and be available at boot time, where /usr may not be. This means that making /bin -> /usr/bin via a softlink would break that.
Uh.. what expects /usr to be a separate filesystem? Where? Which decade?
There is no major nail in coffin situation for pc games any more as they are ports of software to run on 6+ year old, cheaply made game consoles, even if your system does suck, drop the resolution and effects a bit and your good to go.
^ You don't get it. PC gaming is just a shadow now.
The PC being open and accessible drove innovation. It was about way more than special effects and resolution. Modding, public level editors, scripting tools, free server code, etc. all defined 90's PC gaming. Now you've got about the same big companies driving all platforms, with about the same features.
All the innovation you see on fledgling platforms like iOS and Android - just wait until The Big Game Manufacturers take them over too, in years to come. PC Gaming went Hollywood, that's what happened. It went full retard, Walmart Hollywood. It's still open to innovators, you just have to try harder to find indy gems, and they rarely win big audiences.
Oh please,
Java (or more correctly; its user base) has been crying out for some sort of faster startup since the mid 90s. No other problem has done more to keep Java off the desktop that the very slow startup times. If Java applets started as quickly as Flash objects manage to then we would still be seeing Java implemented on major web sites. I could never understand why Java doesn't snapshot and cache a prelinked version of a class the first time it loads, if anything the JVM is getting slower - the demo Java Applets on my website take about as long to start up in 2011 as they did in 2000 but my computer is many times faster.
Maybe the Java that ships with OS X is specially optimized (I'm joking), but the background of your website takes longer to load and render than any of your applets do.
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This is fast enough for CLI usage outside of tight loops. For repeated usage, I'll concede you'd be better off finding a way to feed bulk data in rather than small chunks.
echo "class Hello {public static void main(String args[]) {System.out.println(\"Hello World\");}}" > Hello.java && javac Hello.java && time java Hello
Hello World
real 0m0.189s
user 0m0.210s
sys 0m0.033s
I understand Java is generally no speed demon compared to native compiled code, and desktop hard drive performance has almost stood still for ten years, but come on.
I have a *very* hard time believing that Java load times are as big a limiting factor in desktop app production than people make it appear to be.
unless I can install an alternate OS and have hardware level access.
Why do you want a console to be a general purpose computer? We have those.
If general purpose computers leave you wanting, then why direct complaints at console manufacturers?
I suppose you would still like the console hardware to be subsidized by software that wouldn't run in the configuration you would purportedly buy it for, right? Of course!
Other OS was a mistake, it should not have even existed. Nor does it need to exist, and it did not have full hardware access, ever. Sony is/was boneheaded for sure. The bigger mistake was including it in the first place, not removing it. Sony must have thought it would drive cell processor interest. Assuming the next PlayStation will use the same architecture, I can't imagine why they would put themselves at risk of another hypervisor routing.
insisting he needed a state permit to film a movie in the park. Bigfoot stepped up with a lawsuit, alleging that the park's permit regulations are unconstitutional. The New Hampshire Supreme Court next month will hear Doyle's complaint. Though many elements of the dispute border on the absurd, the case raises some serious free speech issues."
What does filming location have to do with free speech?
Google has said for quite some time that Gingerbread was available, that Honeycomb would be closed and only suited for tablets and that Ice Cream Sandwich would have the source available once it was released. Google was true to their word and everything for 2.x is available and 3.x is closed. The post linked to in the main article is the sources they are required to release (GPL) now that the Ice Cream Sandwich SDK is available. It should be noted that Ice Cream Sandwich itself as an OS has not been released and is not available on any shipping product. They've already said "We plan to release the source for the recently-announced Ice Cream Sandwich soon, once itâ(TM)s available on devices." It's not available on devices yet.
Not disputing the FUD.
But... Android is "open source" on the same terms Solaris is "open source" now? You have to laugh at this, the most lauded example of Linux and Open Source making it mainstream.
Kind of like how those people who "work" 12 hours a day, brag about it, and lag behind people who work an honest 8 hours a day in productive because they spend most of the time at the watercooler or on the internet. Seriously, when you're driving, please drive - stop overestimating your abilities when they really get reduced by not paying attention. If you don't want to do that, either carpool with someone who doesn't have that problem and is willing to drive, or use mass transit.
But stfu because you can't stop diddling with your smartphone for 30 seconds and want to bullshit the rest of us that you're just as good with it as without it.
You know, we can be more objective about this. The parent was talking about talking on a phone while driving with and without a headset. Simply having a conversation while driving can lower your response times, and having one free hand during that puts you at a stupidly high risk for what you're accomplishing. Still, you can mitigate some of the risk by choosing carefully when and when not to have a conversation in the car. Some people even turn the radio down when driving gets tense. I might accept a short call on the highway but not even consider using a phone driving through an intersection, phone or no phone, it's important to know when to tune everything out but the road around you.
Things that divert your eyes from the road for seconds at a time, that's a whole other league of risk that I doubt anyone would argue. There's different levels of risk in all this, starting when you turn the car on.
None of this means banning X while driving is the best way of changing people's behavior though. This sort of sounds like abstinance vs. sex education to me... with a ban you might only be setting yourselves up for higher contrast between poor decision makers and good ones rather than reducing number of bad decisions.
A lot of ad-supported sites will do this. They'll release an article and split it up into multiple pages so they can display more ads. What happens when an article like that gets posted to slashdot? Everyone understandably complains that it's harder to read the article, and somebody posts a link to the printer-friendly version.
Multiple pages are not easier to navigate. Not even on tablets.
rabble rabble rabble prefer scrolls to codex rabble rabble
It's harder to read paginated text... really?
Hate to tell you this, but they killed OpenSolaris a long time ago.
... as far as aspiring 3rd party Solaris contributors were concerned. For everyone else it was just renamed to Solaris 11 Express.
They probably suddenly ended transparency of Solaris development because they intend to phase it out, port everything to Linux and give it away. /sarcasm
So, are they porting Solaris functionality to OEL as a precursor to phasing out Solaris entirely? It would suck to see Solaris go from a nostalgia point of view, but it never made much sense to me why one company would continue to develop two Unix-like operating systems.
I think it's more that they want to continue to differentiate OEL from RHEL and provide a direct migration path for RedHat customers to a full Oracle system.
Linux just doesn't make sense in my mind for the space Oracle's software competes in. It's not enterprise friendly. No stable driver ABI. No system interface stability standards. Nothing like Projects, iostat doesn't show tape drives, kernel and userland lack cohesion, to name few of my personal nitpicks, but overall... very little progress. A lot of things you can't change merely by running your own distro. I mean has it really changed the way we work over the last ten years? It feels stagnated while Solaris gets things like Projects, ZFS, dtrace, zones, native fibre channel stack, microstate accounting, init replacement, fault management, and I could go on and on and on. Linux picked up a journaled filesystem at some point in the last ten years /facepalm.
Nobody can convince me Linux should be The One Way forward while it still doesn't have userland utilities for managing SCSI and FC devices. sudo su -c "echo - - - > /sys/foo/wthrufingseriousbro"
That right there is so telling of the level of commitment put towards making Linux a decent server OS. Even fast forwarding to the latest upstream bits (which is cheating because you lose any semblance of interface stability RedHat might provide), I'm not convinced.
If Oracle did port all the cools bits of Solaris over to Linux, the result would have as much in common with Linux as FCoE has with Ethernet. They're not just going to give that to RedHat...
Phoronix has issues because the guy running it likes to oversensationalize and hyperbolize to get traffic and ad revenue... which is to say it's exactly like Slashdot with the difference being that Phoronix actually does some useful work and there are valuable facts that Phoronix discovers.
The (multiple) kernel power bugs are a very real problem affecting a large number of Linux users and Phoronix helped to shine a light on the issue and at least get the word out about work-arounds. I don't hang on everything that Phoronix publishes, but dismissing it just shows that you want to remain wilfully ignorant about real issues surrounding Linux so that you can appear 'l33t' to your friends.
Welcome to New Media, same as the Old Media.
For £349, you could very decent laptop... This being Slashdot, I kinda skimmed TFA rather than actually reading it, but are they seriously selling the Chromebook for that much money? That's ridiculous. I was able to buy a 3lb 13" ultraportable for about £250 ($400 CAD), and if I'd had another $150 in the budget for it, I could have upgraded it quite nicely. And that's not even considering other form factors that are a lot cheaper, like a 14" or a 15" laptop where you're not as concerned about weight.
Lex talionis mofos.
Can I be the first to say Google Tax?
I will go to the mat with "I can build a system _!EXACTLY!_ like it for less, but I don't want this and that feature or the form factor, Google always charges more for the same, GOOGLE TAX!1"
Is it necessary to point out that they could have done worse? The bank robber that could have murdered all the hostages and set fire to the bank is still a criminal is still a bank robber and still a criminal.
What is the intent of writing things this way, to make us think they were doing us a favor?
That's not to say that you can recover data with the platters removed
What don't you people understand here?
From the link tossed around here a dozen times already..
"There are, from manufacturers sales figures, several thousand SPM's in use in the field today, some of which have special features for analysing disk drive platters, such as the vacuum chucks for standard disk drive platters along with specialised modes of operation for magnetic media analysis. These SPM's can be used with sophisticated programmable controllers and analysis software to allow automation of the data recovery process. If commercially-available SPM's are considered too expensive, it is possible to build a reasonably capable SPM for about US$1400, using a PC as a controller [6]."
Quit saying MAYBE, there are specialized tools being made for this task. They will continue to get better.
You are absolutely deluded if you guys think think your information is safe because it is hard to recover _today_ and think it will not be valuable the _day after_ you throw a drive out. Recovery techniques will get cheaper and more accessible over time, and your most sensitive information is sensitive for DECADES, maybe your whole life! Meanwhile, discarded drives are frozen in time, and you HOPE your data will be overwritten more than once by non-guessable data. Forget today's hard drives... twenty year old hard drives are cheap, not regarded as insecure, easy to recover data from, and still might have sensitive financial information. Why would't the same be true twenty years from now? They might have pocket scanning electron microscopes then!
Write random data, at least once, for your own good, twice if you have the time.
After reading up on the theory of data recovery, why would you even consider plain zeroing, as esoteric as the drive encoding might be?
Since PRML codes don't try to separate peaks in the same way that non-PRML RLL codes do, all we can do is to write a variety of random patterns because the processing inside the drive is too complex to second- guess.
A good scrubbing with random data will do about as well as can be expected.
In the time since this paper was published, some people have treated the 35-pass overwrite technique described in it more as a kind of voodoo incantation to banish evil spirits than the result of a technical analysis of drive encoding techniques. As a result, they advocate applying the voodoo to PRML and EPRML drives even though it will have no more effect than a simple scrubbing with random data.
From your own link. Nowhere in there does it say one pass of an easily guessable pattern (all 0's, REALLY?) is sufficient. The very first pass listed is "Random". One pass of zeros is stupider than the full 7 or 35 pass overwrite...
I can't stand "security" people in business in general with this impulsive urge to physically destroy hard drives because of the data they stored.
Go do some googling, a simple ONE PASS of 0's on the disk WILL make the data absoloutely, without question unrecoverable, anyone who tells you otherwise is in to voodoo and black magic or trying to make some profit.
A huge amount of these "security professionals" insist on trashing perfectly good hardware for no apparent reason, it's a complete was of good resources.
The amount of perfectly good disks I've seen killed is astounding and not always old clunkers either, some relatively decent sized, high performing disks to boot.
DBAN doesn't take forever either, hook them up to a spare PC and fire it off, change the disks every couple of hours, infact if I recall DBAN supports multiple drives at the same time.
Sure if you have a 40gb IDE or something, just drill a hole in it - but if you're trashing anything over 160gb you're starting to ruin perfectly good hardware, for the sake of being pedantic and frankly stupid - stop and just don't do it.
This goes for anyone else suggesting the same thing, go and do some reading before believing any of this "must be 12pass write" rubbish to a disk.
FWIW A good 0 write to a disk doesn't normally take more than a few hours.
Published research says otherwise...
If you're going to make one pass, at least write random data, not zeros you bozo.
What liability?
Clause 1. If you deliver software with complete and buildable source code and a license that allows disabling any functionality or code by the licensee, then your liability is limited to a refund.
Sorry, the point of this legislation would be to encourage MORE responsibility, not LESS.
"Here's the source code to your car's ECU, and uh, because we made that available we're not responsible in any way for any damages or injury to yourself or others even if you _don't_ choose/care to modify your car. Thanks a _bunch_ to the Open ECU Lobby, we think this is in the best interest of _everyone_"
That's real smart. You just fucked everyone.
... and DRAC remote console on any Dell server among many other things.
You can infer a lot from the "Java is dead" crowd, like they probably don't have a job in IT, or they don't use UNIX, like to say things are dead a lot, etc.
This statement is a direct result of the loss of true scientific method today. When science becomes essentially nothing but religion, people start trying to apply it to religion itself. No, you cannot apply true science to religions questions. There are no experiments you can perform in that venue.
Uhhh.. WHAT? How is forming strong opinions on "the untestable" a part of the scientific method, good science, or even a good idea? Religion is a response to a set of silly, unanswerable questions. "Why am I here?" /facepalm
It's OK to have unanswerable questions, why can't they be left that way? What sort of discipline is used to draw up answers in the form of a religion? Why should any one religion on Earth be given more weight than any other if they are all equally unverifiable, unprovable, and unconnected? What reason do you have for offering answers to unanswerable questions?
No, it isn't. CS is programming. IT is the maintenance of computer systems. That's like saying the guy who fixes your car and the guy who designs the engine are in the same field. They aren't.
While an IT worker may do some light programming in his job, the average IT worker is not a programmer, and does not have the skill set to be one. You do a disservice to yourself and the understanding of the industry by continuing to perpetuate this mistake. The two fields are totally separate, and conflating the two only causes confusion.
What GD planet do you and your moderators come from? IT is the name of the whole industry that employs both programmers and system admins.
On top of that, you called everything outside of software development "maintenance". As if there aren't software developers out there stuck in maintenance mode, or people actually building and integrating infrastructure from diverse sources, including but not limited to software.
In your own analogy, the guy fixing the car would also be a software developer! Then we have the driver, which I'm sure is what you are calling "IT". What department designs and builds all the roads, bridges, garages, gas stations, police departments, etc?? Cities don't just appear from nowhere, and they constantly change, just like IT infrastructure.
You seem to really underestimate how much further work writing software enables or necessitates. It's like making a quilt, where software developers are behind.. who knows, maybe half of the patches that go into it.