The FreeSWITCH bunch have a useful saying: "Don't glue the Lego pieces together".
A modular system is best enjoyed as a modular system. This is one of the most powerful things about unix systems, you can pipe the output of cat to the input of sed and feed that to a text file for editing by vi.
I don't have a dog in this systemd fight, and I agree with another poster who thinks this is much drama over not much. It is a sea change in how to think about things, but I certainly do not miss hunting down a missing sysvinit script and slogging through it to see why it doesn't work because of one silly line in it. Building a unit file is child's play by comparison. As long as the damned thing works I'm fine with it.
The concept embodied by this law might be creeping into society generally. I monitor fire department scanners and they no longer say the patient is "46 years old", instead they say "46 years OF AGE" as if the very word "old" itself is a Bad Thing. I've actually heard the dispatcher correct herself as she was about to say "age" as if she would get reprimanded by saying it.
I just have to laugh some times when I see my fellow hamateurs spout off about how much ham radio helps. When your little Baofeng 1/2 Watt portable can't hit the repeater because it has no electrical power then there won't be much you can do.
Well, you can laugh all you want, but I object to the de facto censorship imposed on us by these de facto monopolies like Facebook, Google, and now Yahoo(?)
As if simply seeing something is the worst affront that one can suffer, so we need this AI nanny.
I agree with others on many points:
- I would rate violent images worse, automatically
- what about artistic nudes? Is this thing smart enough to discriminate between guys with cameras and the good stuff?
- what about legitimate naturist and nude beach mementos? Are we to raise an entire generation to think that shooting (imaginary) people until blood splatters the virtual screen is just peachy keen, but those photos of our trip to the nude beach are just oh so terrible? Is that the world we want to hand down when we're the next in line for the slaughter? Who made Silicon Valley the worldwide arbiters of taste anyway?
- NSFW means "not sure for what?" What if you work at a pr0n shop??
I mean, it's Google so you expect a certain level of intrusiveness and they must read the e-mail to characterize it for filtering. But I find their spam filtering to be the best going precisely because it's crowd-sourced. The sheer volume of users would be tough for any other shared database to duplicate, but I'd be curious what responses you get, myself.
I see no reason for a name change, but VPs need to make themselves appear useful somehow, I guess. If Google would limit its changes to names and color themes I'd be happy, but they seem to reduce functionality and rip out features with every "upgrade" across many of their apps any more. If it aint broke, don't fix it.
I don't know anybody who uses Hangouts. I've been avoiding Hangouts as long as possible to keep old Google Voice running the way I like it on my old Android phone.
Google has a long (awaited?) history of creating products, then abandoning them. If it aint their money-maker Search they seem to lose interest after a short time. By this measure, Google must be really lousy in bed.
In the PC arena, however, developers tell us that we should pitch those awful, terrible, useless 32-bit machines that are sitting around everywhere. They won't write software for that ancient, antiquated, useless junk; they only write shiny new 64-bit software now so those old 32-bit machines are stuck in the past. Pity.
so now that they own DirectTV they'd rather shill that than actually install the fiber that they've been putting off for decades
I think both AT&T and Verizon are struck by the staggering costs of installing new infrastructure, as hasn't Verizon scaled back or stopped the deployment of FiOS fiber to the home? Even the mighty, mighty Google has been pumping the brakes on fiber roll-outs.
Your U-Verse TV box tells the head-end what channel you want to watch and that's the only channel sent down the wire to your box, so it's not wasting bandwidth streaming other channels that you're not watching.
That quoted excerpt from the article above is all over the place and made little sense to me.
Those "fringe" candidates don't have the broad infrastructure of local and state party operatives the way the Democrats and Republicans do, so they would have essentially no base on which to govern. They need to start from the ground up and build popular support before reaching for the top.
The bigger problem with Trump is not Trump himself, but the goons he would hire to run the country: imagine Vinny for Treasury secretary, Moose for Defense, and Rocco for Homeland Security. With all the corruption and favoritism that would bring. Be afraid. BE VERY AFRAID!!
The BIGGEST problem is not this pie-in-the-sky DDoS attack, but the actual problem of hiring bored, couldn't-care-less call takers who sometimes get the call details right and if they don't...eh, somebody might figure it out while they're running down the road trying to find the incident. You know, people who are more interested in bitching about not getting the vacation time they wanted, not getting that shiny new headset that SHE has over in the next cubicle, and other things that are much more important than public safety.
To say nothing of the gag order placed on Broward County, Florida call takers so that their new regional call centers appear to be totally flawless to the general public.
But please, worry about this DDoS attack vector since it's techy and sexy.
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The FreeSWITCH bunch have a useful saying: "Don't glue the Lego pieces together".
A modular system is best enjoyed as a modular system. This is one of the most powerful things about unix systems, you can pipe the output of cat to the input of sed and feed that to a text file for editing by vi.
I don't have a dog in this systemd fight, and I agree with another poster who thinks this is much drama over not much. It is a sea change in how to think about things, but I certainly do not miss hunting down a missing sysvinit script and slogging through it to see why it doesn't work because of one silly line in it. Building a unit file is child's play by comparison. As long as the damned thing works I'm fine with it.
Corner cases such as...??
The concept embodied by this law might be creeping into society generally. I monitor fire department scanners and they no longer say the patient is "46 years old", instead they say "46 years OF AGE" as if the very word "old" itself is a Bad Thing. I've actually heard the dispatcher correct herself as she was about to say "age" as if she would get reprimanded by saying it.
Is this really a thing?
I was on the Internet in 1986 and watched Al Gore invent it from within.
I just have to laugh some times when I see my fellow hamateurs spout off about how much ham radio helps. When your little Baofeng 1/2 Watt portable can't hit the repeater because it has no electrical power then there won't be much you can do.
Yes, I can the see the lines queuing up to pass traffic via ham radio. Business calls, tech support requests, assignations with the mistress, etc.
Oh, wait, it's just gas station lines. nvm.
At least it wasn't a missing semicolon at the end of a line of source code in the SS7 Signal Transfer Point. That was all it took about 25 years ago.
So this is less a technical struggle than a political one?
At least with Debian, can't you choose your init system at install time? Or is that no longer an option?
I choose the distribution to meet my needs. I wouldn't allow the init system to dictate which distro I use.
It's about systemd so of course it will be overblown by its detractors.
They abandoned adrenaline when hyronalin was discovered.
Well, you can laugh all you want, but I object to the de facto censorship imposed on us by these de facto monopolies like Facebook, Google, and now Yahoo(?)
As if simply seeing something is the worst affront that one can suffer, so we need this AI nanny.
I agree with others on many points:
- I would rate violent images worse, automatically
- what about artistic nudes? Is this thing smart enough to discriminate between guys with cameras and the good stuff?
- what about legitimate naturist and nude beach mementos? Are we to raise an entire generation to think that shooting (imaginary) people until blood splatters the virtual screen is just peachy keen, but those photos of our trip to the nude beach are just oh so terrible? Is that the world we want to hand down when we're the next in line for the slaughter? Who made Silicon Valley the worldwide arbiters of taste anyway?
- NSFW means "not sure for what?" What if you work at a pr0n shop??
What "sticky fingers" do you see?
I mean, it's Google so you expect a certain level of intrusiveness and they must read the e-mail to characterize it for filtering. But I find their spam filtering to be the best going precisely because it's crowd-sourced. The sheer volume of users would be tough for any other shared database to duplicate, but I'd be curious what responses you get, myself.
I see no reason for a name change, but VPs need to make themselves appear useful somehow, I guess. If Google would limit its changes to names and color themes I'd be happy, but they seem to reduce functionality and rip out features with every "upgrade" across many of their apps any more. If it aint broke, don't fix it.
I would expect even /. to get that much right. Are my expectations too high?
If the automobiles didn't have easy network connectivity, they couldn't be compromised so readily be bad actors.
I'm buying a new car soon and I have resolved not to buy one that doesn't allow me to disable any built-in radios immediately.
I don't know anybody who uses Hangouts. I've been avoiding Hangouts as long as possible to keep old Google Voice running the way I like it on my old Android phone.
Google has a long (awaited?) history of creating products, then abandoning them. If it aint their money-maker Search they seem to lose interest after a short time. By this measure, Google must be really lousy in bed.
In the PC arena, however, developers tell us that we should pitch those awful, terrible, useless 32-bit machines that are sitting around everywhere. They won't write software for that ancient, antiquated, useless junk; they only write shiny new 64-bit software now so those old 32-bit machines are stuck in the past. Pity.
Sadly, this inconvenient truth won't be seen by many because you posted as an A.C.
Consume less, waste less.
so now that they own DirectTV they'd rather shill that than actually install the fiber that they've been putting off for decades
I think both AT&T and Verizon are struck by the staggering costs of installing new infrastructure, as hasn't Verizon scaled back or stopped the deployment of FiOS fiber to the home? Even the mighty, mighty Google has been pumping the brakes on fiber roll-outs.
Your U-Verse TV box tells the head-end what channel you want to watch and that's the only channel sent down the wire to your box, so it's not wasting bandwidth streaming other channels that you're not watching.
That quoted excerpt from the article above is all over the place and made little sense to me.
Those "fringe" candidates don't have the broad infrastructure of local and state party operatives the way the Democrats and Republicans do, so they would have essentially no base on which to govern. They need to start from the ground up and build popular support before reaching for the top.
The bigger problem with Trump is not Trump himself, but the goons he would hire to run the country: imagine Vinny for Treasury secretary, Moose for Defense, and Rocco for Homeland Security. With all the corruption and favoritism that would bring. Be afraid. BE VERY AFRAID!!
Unless the fault lies not in the battery, but in the charging circuitry and/or algorithms controlling said circuitry.
The BIGGEST problem is not this pie-in-the-sky DDoS attack, but the actual problem of hiring bored, couldn't-care-less call takers who sometimes get the call details right and if they don't...eh, somebody might figure it out while they're running down the road trying to find the incident. You know, people who are more interested in bitching about not getting the vacation time they wanted, not getting that shiny new headset that SHE has over in the next cubicle, and other things that are much more important than public safety.
To say nothing of the gag order placed on Broward County, Florida call takers so that their new regional call centers appear to be totally flawless to the general public.
But please, worry about this DDoS attack vector since it's techy and sexy.
Kind of like Internet 2 maybe??
It's not even a rounding error on the profit and loss statements.