Well, if you find it amusing that someone philosophically opposite to you is making a fairly vulgar amount of money while you sit on the sidelines, laugh hard. Laugh till you have an aneurysm, in fact, since that is the exact case. Maybe you find it hilarious that the "working against" efforts are a completely failure and I'm still free to CO2 emit while you are still trying to come up with ways to coerce folks to do what you want. It's funny that you pick heroine as your example, since it's extremely easy to get despite the efforts of the government or regulation. Why isn't the regulation and big-brother-wrap-everyone-bubble-wrap-and-make-them-obey mentality saving the day? It's illegal so why so many overdoses?
Well, I can tell you there will be a lot of Americans like me who've seen their friends axed over and over by offshoring layoffs who won't give two shits if India and China swap nukes or give each other Ebola etc... When I see that part of the world burning, I'm personally going to take up the violin.
Nah 56K is a "modest start". Keep in mind they've been letting in 65k - 120k every year since 2001 depending on how you count. By my count we've still got at least 1.5 million to go. Once Obama got in, he made a rule that they could also automatically let their spouses work, too. So, you see the same pattern emerge. Guys would come over at around 22-25, work for 2-5 years and build up some cash while living in a two bedroom apartment with three to five other Indians. Go back at 28-31 and get married, then bring their wives over to be PHP coders (and I'm not even kidding a bit). Basically, if you go read what Teddy Roosevelt wrote about immigration? Yeah. It's that situation.
It already has. The Boxer Rebellion was caused mainly by young men who couldn't find wives after 60 years of Chinese female-baby abortions. Even today, Chinese men buy wives from Vietnam due to the same sort of shortage. It's just that with all the global travel, the effects spill over into other countries.
Kinda sad then that I'm still spewing CO2, mining Bitcoin, and fucking up "your" planet while all you can do is whine like a 6th grade girl and talk your own ignorant shit. You want me to stop? You have the same options as everyone else: 1. Make me. 2. Whine. I see you've chosen #2.
SSL is a system where one worthless lying corporation (certificate authorities) gets to put a stamp of approval on another corporation (for money, of course - "what could go wrong"!?). I say the whole system sucks balls. I don't trust any of these fuckers. So what if some suit-wearing asshole thinks another suit-wearing asshole is trustworthy. That means exactly zero to me. All the things they check can be forged easily (and have been in several high profile cases). Rather than trust flowing from things & people I trust in reality (ie.. "100 actual friends of mine have ranked this site trustworthy"), the whole system is built on a game of Three Card Monty played by corporate thieves. None of this even touches on the overcomplicated and oft-broken technology at play in SSL (Heartbleed anyone?). While admittedly I don't have a great suggestion for how to fix it, I know what crap looks like when I see it.
No, genius, net neutrality has zero to do with ISP competition and doesn't govern it in any way. It's about business weasels using traffic prioritization to juice their customers (among other things).
Wow, this is great detail and excellent explanation. If I wasn't on the thread I'd dump some mod points on this. Thank you, I read it all, understood, and appreciated it. You have great insight into the nuances of the Radeon driver narrative. I look forward to seeing the open source vendor supported code making its way to other places, too.
Of course, this only helps the 5 of us left who still code in ASM. "Kids these days" seem to think that ASM "sucks" because "it's old". If the language doesn't have trait based generics, zero cost abstractions, and a partridge in a pear tree then again it's "old" and it "sucks". It's entertaining to watch your average 20-something java/python/PHP coder try to take on ASM. Their efforts generally don't last more than about five minutes when they find out they have to build their own control structures, and mama's not gonna wipe their butts with Visual Studio tooltip hints. If this wizzbang tool decompiled code into Rust, then maybe the cool kids would want it. As it is, they will do what they always do with ASM based tools: hand-wave like they know exactly how it works and then promptly ignore it. Anyhow, back to my ASM-One environment on my 68k Amiga. If anyone needs me I'll be here squatting on this temporal nexus to the 1990s.:-)
When I first read the story, it sounded to me like just the 3D Vulkan driver was going to be open-sourced. Then I read this and it sounds like you are implying that the whole kit and caboodle has been open sourced. I guess I'm a bit behind on this and I have a question if you have time to answer. Is the is the KMS module and the regular X11 display (2d) driver also completely open source at this point? I switched from Linux to BSD years ago, but I still have a Linux rig around (Devuan rig). I notice that there is still a message about kernel taint after I install all the fglrx packages. However, I remember that NetBSD got a KMS port a few years back that "unlocked" a ton of my old hardware with Radeon chipsets. However, I never dug down far enough to tell if it was using the so-called "radeonHD" open source drivers or code straight from AMD. Not trying to gainsay you, just asking if you know.
What about the fact that folks have a *right* to do whatever they want with their computer, their bandwidth, and their fucking life! Jezuz, did this come from the same assholes who were shaking their fingers at us over Bitcoin energy consumption? Here's a hint: go fuck yourselves. Nobody gives a two small shits about your opinion on what's "okay" for them to be using resources they paid for. If you think it's a waste, well, then we have something in common because I think all the watts/joules put into SJW hot air is a big waste of energy, too. Judgmental pricks what they are.
From the sound of things, India and China are not happy with each other over some border issues. We might all be soon breathing in the fallout of two billion freshly vaporized potential H1Bs if they decide to swap nukes.
A cross between a horrible thieving mobile operating system and an irrelevant flavor of the month programming language invented as a pathetic effort to displace C? Never mind, I don't actually care in the slightest. Back to my Symbian phone. *Yawn*
Wonderful. They have my bank account numbers and transfer authorization. If they get owned, I'm gonna get fucked like a housecat. I think I'm going to have to switch Paypal's funding source to a pre-paid card or something. Just more hassle to *try* and keep them from wiping my main accounts. For a while I thought the guys who bought gold and stuffed it into a safe deposit box were crazy. Now it looks like I'm the one who is crazy for trusting any of this Rube-Goldberg machine of e-commerce and e-payments to be somewhat secure.
Qualifications, skill, and experience are what is going to get you hired in tech, male or female. If you do well in the technical interview, then you will probably get the offer. I feel I'm somewhat qualified to say this because I've often been the technical interviewer. Between my current gig, IBM, and Oracle (previous gigs), I just counted over 250 interviews for approximately 20 positions filled. I believe (strongly) that being female would have resulted in a *positive* bias, not negative (guys would have been thrilled to get a female co-worker). I say this because on the rare occasion a candidate was female, there was always at least one (or more) "I hope she's good" sincere comments from team members. They weren't saying because they were lying-in-wait sexual-harassers (at least I don't think so). It was because they were *really* hoping that the woman would be hire-able. In some cases it was simply because they needed help. As someone with a fair amount of hiring & interviewing experience, my advice to young women looking for a job in tech is "ignore the press, ignore well-meaning SJW men, and just press hard on technical skill." If you blow away the competition in the tech-screen and interview, you are *set*, being female won't hurt you and it's very likely to help you (yes, even if you aren't physically attractive). Men, as a group, tend to respect skill and it'll pay dividends in many ways. If you are average or below average do everyone else a favor and don't go whining that it was prejudice or misogyny. Just pick yourself up and study the topical material better for next time.
You managed to find one app that doesn't freak out and obstinately refuse to run after having it's permissions altered. Congrats. I don't really see that as validating your excitement about the nearly useless granular permissions feature, but if your point is "Hey! It's possible. It was done once. See?" Okay, wonderful, but that damn sure isn't the norm for new or old applications. That's what these constant drumbeat of horrifying news about mobile security are elucidating. Now, do you really think that any appdev who wants to track you, steal your addressbook, or turn on the camera/mic without permissions is going to tell themselves "Android is newer now and has some granular permissions features. I should probably stop being a spying asshole and support that feature". There is no way that's happening! I will stick to my ancient Symbian phone that can't run apps, has no bluetooth or wifi, and nobody cares about. You might turn your nose up and refuse to run apps that won't behave. However, it's not you or I that's really endangered by this kind of behavior. It's the huge numbers of folks with entry-level technical skills (ie.. they can barely run the phone) who get screwed by the fundamentally stupid/evil security architecture in *all* mobile operating systems.
Which is a completely useless waste of time as the application will simply refuse to run. This is universal on both Android, iOS, and even BB10. Granular permissions are meaningless since the applications will only give a complaint about you taking away camera, mic, and addressbook permissions and quit without letting you use them. I've yet to see a single application that didn't do this and you can bet the ones doing stupid shit you wouldn't want are going to be even more militant. So, I get it, in your particular case your Android fanboy gene is overriding your understanding of the problem, but try to see it in realistic terms - the granular permissions feature is mostly useless without the ability to force applications to run without their spying enabled.
I had the same experience. The only difference is that I'm totally willing to question the competency of the Chinese and Indian professors who, frankly, just sucked. Not only could they not teach, they had no interest in it. They were just as entitled as most domestic professors who think they are born researchers and eschew teaching. I remember one pidgin English speaking asshole-idiot-professor screaming at me that I was wrong to question him for calling Cray Inc "Grey" repeatedly. In my opsys classes they had fairly poor command of the OS theory they were trying to teach and couldn't understand and properly venerate Unix (guy teaching the class couldn't even write shell scripts properly). I found myself having to free-tutor many classmates who couldn't understand the professors (and TA's) extremely poor English. I also noticed that in math classes the foreign no-English-speaking motherfuckers always had plenty of enrollment slots, but the ones you could understand filled up *instantly* as soon as registration started (damn near impossible to get in). So, I fucking *know* I was not the only one who noticed how they sucked. This was 15 years ago. I noticed that tuition has more than doubled since then. I feel for people having to layout serious cash/debt to put up with this sub-par crap.
No experience? LOL. I teach Redhat classes to RHCE students (and I am a certified RH instructor and RHCE myself). I've worked in multiple environments with over 300,000 sqft of populated data center and (tens of) thousands of Linux systems. I've personally been running some form of Linux since 1993 (SLS was my first distro). I'm a C programmer and have written Linux device drivers. You, on the other hand, sound like a teenager with no job experience angry that someone attacked your Steam platform. Get an actual job. Your experience in mom's basement isn't giving you a realistic view of Linux's enterprise integration.
I'm glad to live in a country where a guy like this can sue the Tesla. Hopefully, he had the presence of mind to record them or get some hard evidence. EEOC complaints can be an effective avenue, so can a discrimination lawsuit. The only way to stop this kind of behavior is to bow-up and fight back.
No doubt. I have had at least three "opportunities" to go to India. I refused (at one point with my employer threatening to fire me otherwise). Co-workers who went came back with horrible stories of illness and crime. I still have *zero* regrets and will *never* willingly go to India.
Great. Go to a sysadmin or security conference and try to pimp your pro-systemd perspective. You totally have a chance of not being laughed out of the room or overwhelmed with hatred from the vast majority folks with *actual experience* with it. Probably. Uhhh, maybe. What $$$ distros choose to shove down our throats has ZERO to do with actual effectiveness or demand. That's called an appeal to the masses. File under "logical fallacy".
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Well, if you find it amusing that someone philosophically opposite to you is making a fairly vulgar amount of money while you sit on the sidelines, laugh hard. Laugh till you have an aneurysm, in fact, since that is the exact case. Maybe you find it hilarious that the "working against" efforts are a completely failure and I'm still free to CO2 emit while you are still trying to come up with ways to coerce folks to do what you want. It's funny that you pick heroine as your example, since it's extremely easy to get despite the efforts of the government or regulation. Why isn't the regulation and big-brother-wrap-everyone-bubble-wrap-and-make-them-obey mentality saving the day? It's illegal so why so many overdoses?
Well, I can tell you there will be a lot of Americans like me who've seen their friends axed over and over by offshoring layoffs who won't give two shits if India and China swap nukes or give each other Ebola etc... When I see that part of the world burning, I'm personally going to take up the violin.
Nah 56K is a "modest start". Keep in mind they've been letting in 65k - 120k every year since 2001 depending on how you count. By my count we've still got at least 1.5 million to go. Once Obama got in, he made a rule that they could also automatically let their spouses work, too. So, you see the same pattern emerge. Guys would come over at around 22-25, work for 2-5 years and build up some cash while living in a two bedroom apartment with three to five other Indians. Go back at 28-31 and get married, then bring their wives over to be PHP coders (and I'm not even kidding a bit). Basically, if you go read what Teddy Roosevelt wrote about immigration? Yeah. It's that situation.
It already has. The Boxer Rebellion was caused mainly by young men who couldn't find wives after 60 years of Chinese female-baby abortions. Even today, Chinese men buy wives from Vietnam due to the same sort of shortage. It's just that with all the global travel, the effects spill over into other countries.
Kinda sad then that I'm still spewing CO2, mining Bitcoin, and fucking up "your" planet while all you can do is whine like a 6th grade girl and talk your own ignorant shit. You want me to stop? You have the same options as everyone else: 1. Make me. 2. Whine. I see you've chosen #2.
SSL is a system where one worthless lying corporation (certificate authorities) gets to put a stamp of approval on another corporation (for money, of course - "what could go wrong"!?). I say the whole system sucks balls. I don't trust any of these fuckers. So what if some suit-wearing asshole thinks another suit-wearing asshole is trustworthy. That means exactly zero to me. All the things they check can be forged easily (and have been in several high profile cases). Rather than trust flowing from things & people I trust in reality (ie.. "100 actual friends of mine have ranked this site trustworthy"), the whole system is built on a game of Three Card Monty played by corporate thieves. None of this even touches on the overcomplicated and oft-broken technology at play in SSL (Heartbleed anyone?). While admittedly I don't have a great suggestion for how to fix it, I know what crap looks like when I see it.
No, genius, net neutrality has zero to do with ISP competition and doesn't govern it in any way. It's about business weasels using traffic prioritization to juice their customers (among other things).
Wow, this is great detail and excellent explanation. If I wasn't on the thread I'd dump some mod points on this. Thank you, I read it all, understood, and appreciated it. You have great insight into the nuances of the Radeon driver narrative. I look forward to seeing the open source vendor supported code making its way to other places, too.
Of course, this only helps the 5 of us left who still code in ASM. "Kids these days" seem to think that ASM "sucks" because "it's old". If the language doesn't have trait based generics, zero cost abstractions, and a partridge in a pear tree then again it's "old" and it "sucks". It's entertaining to watch your average 20-something java/python/PHP coder try to take on ASM. Their efforts generally don't last more than about five minutes when they find out they have to build their own control structures, and mama's not gonna wipe their butts with Visual Studio tooltip hints. If this wizzbang tool decompiled code into Rust, then maybe the cool kids would want it. As it is, they will do what they always do with ASM based tools: hand-wave like they know exactly how it works and then promptly ignore it. Anyhow, back to my ASM-One environment on my 68k Amiga. If anyone needs me I'll be here squatting on this temporal nexus to the 1990s. :-)
When I first read the story, it sounded to me like just the 3D Vulkan driver was going to be open-sourced. Then I read this and it sounds like you are implying that the whole kit and caboodle has been open sourced. I guess I'm a bit behind on this and I have a question if you have time to answer. Is the is the KMS module and the regular X11 display (2d) driver also completely open source at this point? I switched from Linux to BSD years ago, but I still have a Linux rig around (Devuan rig). I notice that there is still a message about kernel taint after I install all the fglrx packages. However, I remember that NetBSD got a KMS port a few years back that "unlocked" a ton of my old hardware with Radeon chipsets. However, I never dug down far enough to tell if it was using the so-called "radeonHD" open source drivers or code straight from AMD. Not trying to gainsay you, just asking if you know.
What about the fact that folks have a *right* to do whatever they want with their computer, their bandwidth, and their fucking life! Jezuz, did this come from the same assholes who were shaking their fingers at us over Bitcoin energy consumption? Here's a hint: go fuck yourselves. Nobody gives a two small shits about your opinion on what's "okay" for them to be using resources they paid for. If you think it's a waste, well, then we have something in common because I think all the watts/joules put into SJW hot air is a big waste of energy, too. Judgmental pricks what they are.
From the sound of things, India and China are not happy with each other over some border issues. We might all be soon breathing in the fallout of two billion freshly vaporized potential H1Bs if they decide to swap nukes.
A cross between a horrible thieving mobile operating system and an irrelevant flavor of the month programming language invented as a pathetic effort to displace C? Never mind, I don't actually care in the slightest. Back to my Symbian phone. *Yawn*
Wonderful. They have my bank account numbers and transfer authorization. If they get owned, I'm gonna get fucked like a housecat. I think I'm going to have to switch Paypal's funding source to a pre-paid card or something. Just more hassle to *try* and keep them from wiping my main accounts. For a while I thought the guys who bought gold and stuffed it into a safe deposit box were crazy. Now it looks like I'm the one who is crazy for trusting any of this Rube-Goldberg machine of e-commerce and e-payments to be somewhat secure.
Qualifications, skill, and experience are what is going to get you hired in tech, male or female. If you do well in the technical interview, then you will probably get the offer. I feel I'm somewhat qualified to say this because I've often been the technical interviewer. Between my current gig, IBM, and Oracle (previous gigs), I just counted over 250 interviews for approximately 20 positions filled. I believe (strongly) that being female would have resulted in a *positive* bias, not negative (guys would have been thrilled to get a female co-worker). I say this because on the rare occasion a candidate was female, there was always at least one (or more) "I hope she's good" sincere comments from team members. They weren't saying because they were lying-in-wait sexual-harassers (at least I don't think so). It was because they were *really* hoping that the woman would be hire-able. In some cases it was simply because they needed help. As someone with a fair amount of hiring & interviewing experience, my advice to young women looking for a job in tech is "ignore the press, ignore well-meaning SJW men, and just press hard on technical skill." If you blow away the competition in the tech-screen and interview, you are *set*, being female won't hurt you and it's very likely to help you (yes, even if you aren't physically attractive). Men, as a group, tend to respect skill and it'll pay dividends in many ways. If you are average or below average do everyone else a favor and don't go whining that it was prejudice or misogyny. Just pick yourself up and study the topical material better for next time.
You managed to find one app that doesn't freak out and obstinately refuse to run after having it's permissions altered. Congrats. I don't really see that as validating your excitement about the nearly useless granular permissions feature, but if your point is "Hey! It's possible. It was done once. See?" Okay, wonderful, but that damn sure isn't the norm for new or old applications. That's what these constant drumbeat of horrifying news about mobile security are elucidating. Now, do you really think that any appdev who wants to track you, steal your addressbook, or turn on the camera/mic without permissions is going to tell themselves "Android is newer now and has some granular permissions features. I should probably stop being a spying asshole and support that feature". There is no way that's happening! I will stick to my ancient Symbian phone that can't run apps, has no bluetooth or wifi, and nobody cares about. You might turn your nose up and refuse to run apps that won't behave. However, it's not you or I that's really endangered by this kind of behavior. It's the huge numbers of folks with entry-level technical skills (ie.. they can barely run the phone) who get screwed by the fundamentally stupid/evil security architecture in *all* mobile operating systems.
Which is a completely useless waste of time as the application will simply refuse to run. This is universal on both Android, iOS, and even BB10. Granular permissions are meaningless since the applications will only give a complaint about you taking away camera, mic, and addressbook permissions and quit without letting you use them. I've yet to see a single application that didn't do this and you can bet the ones doing stupid shit you wouldn't want are going to be even more militant. So, I get it, in your particular case your Android fanboy gene is overriding your understanding of the problem, but try to see it in realistic terms - the granular permissions feature is mostly useless without the ability to force applications to run without their spying enabled.
There is some other kind of transmission besides manual? Heresy! *grin*
Works GREAT: MS Office 2003, Total Commander, WinRAR, Photoshop 6, RegEx Buddy
Broken Badly and I wish they weren't: Skype, Fractal Painter, Newer Photoshop CS, just about all WWW browsers, and newer Outlook
Most of the time, one is simply backed into a corner when turning to Wine. I hate using it, but it's better than booting into Windows.
They don't sound so superior when their 'stability' relies on censors and jackboots.
I had the same experience. The only difference is that I'm totally willing to question the competency of the Chinese and Indian professors who, frankly, just sucked. Not only could they not teach, they had no interest in it. They were just as entitled as most domestic professors who think they are born researchers and eschew teaching. I remember one pidgin English speaking asshole-idiot-professor screaming at me that I was wrong to question him for calling Cray Inc "Grey" repeatedly. In my opsys classes they had fairly poor command of the OS theory they were trying to teach and couldn't understand and properly venerate Unix (guy teaching the class couldn't even write shell scripts properly). I found myself having to free-tutor many classmates who couldn't understand the professors (and TA's) extremely poor English. I also noticed that in math classes the foreign no-English-speaking motherfuckers always had plenty of enrollment slots, but the ones you could understand filled up *instantly* as soon as registration started (damn near impossible to get in). So, I fucking *know* I was not the only one who noticed how they sucked. This was 15 years ago. I noticed that tuition has more than doubled since then. I feel for people having to layout serious cash/debt to put up with this sub-par crap.
No experience? LOL. I teach Redhat classes to RHCE students (and I am a certified RH instructor and RHCE myself). I've worked in multiple environments with over 300,000 sqft of populated data center and (tens of) thousands of Linux systems. I've personally been running some form of Linux since 1993 (SLS was my first distro). I'm a C programmer and have written Linux device drivers. You, on the other hand, sound like a teenager with no job experience angry that someone attacked your Steam platform. Get an actual job. Your experience in mom's basement isn't giving you a realistic view of Linux's enterprise integration.
I'm glad to live in a country where a guy like this can sue the Tesla. Hopefully, he had the presence of mind to record them or get some hard evidence. EEOC complaints can be an effective avenue, so can a discrimination lawsuit. The only way to stop this kind of behavior is to bow-up and fight back.
No doubt. I have had at least three "opportunities" to go to India. I refused (at one point with my employer threatening to fire me otherwise). Co-workers who went came back with horrible stories of illness and crime. I still have *zero* regrets and will *never* willingly go to India.
Great. Go to a sysadmin or security conference and try to pimp your pro-systemd perspective. You totally have a chance of not being laughed out of the room or overwhelmed with hatred from the vast majority folks with *actual experience* with it. Probably. Uhhh, maybe. What $$$ distros choose to shove down our throats has ZERO to do with actual effectiveness or demand. That's called an appeal to the masses. File under "logical fallacy".