And all of the filesystems typically used for linux installations (xfs, jfs, reiserfs, ext2/3/4, btrfs) do support the same calls, it's only when you get to simplistic filesystems like FAT or special purpose filesystems that there are significant differences.
Linux retains a very high level of backwards compatibility as far as userland is concerned... You just target a minimum kernel version, and can reasonably expect your code to continue working on any future versions.
Binaries compiled for ancient linux distros still run on current ones providing you have all the libs they require, unless you explicitly disable the kernel options that support them. Source code that predates linux will often still compile and run on modern linux systems too.
It makes sense for mainstream distros to drop 32bit, especially the main server distros as there are few if any 32bit machines still being built.
Support for 64bit on linux is very mature, and the open source nature of the vast majority of applications means that everything has long ago been recompiled so you're not stuck with legacy 32bit binaries.
32bit should be relegated to embedded and legacy niches.
Well it doesn't function the same... If your paying for a service you don't expect it to build a profile on you or shove advertising in your face. For many people, this difference is worth a small cost.
You can also use your own domain, and thus your own identity... Using someone else's domain especially one with millions of users means you will end up with a non memorable username like anonymouscoward43284902...
And on the topic of usernames, using your own domain allows you to create as many aliases as you want, which you can use as throwaway addresses - very useful when all manner of sites expect an email address to sign up, and then send you all manner of spam (or sell/leak your address to others who will spam you).
The "its simple and easy to do" is a problem in and of itself... It might be simple to get a server barely functioning, but configuring it properly and keeping it secure is somewhat harder. This is why there are so many insecure boxes out there getting hacked and pumping out spam.
He's referring to the UK, where all banks provide fast domestic transfers and atm withdrawals... Most consumer bank accounts are also free, so chances are this guy is not paying anything for the services he describes. Business bank accounts often charge fees, and there are some premium accounts which give you additional services for a fee, but the basic standard bank accounts are free.
Merchants paying a fee to accept cards is normal, taking cash is not free either... It costs money to have stocks of small change, it costs to transport your takings to the bank, plus the risk of theft or losses. In many cases, the 2% card fee is actually cheaper than the cost of accepting cash and there aren't many alternatives to these two. It's a cost of doing business.
Because as per the design of the system, those private owners will choose personal profit even if it comes at the expense of society as a whole. Without regulation you will end up with a totalitarian system once a particular group has acquired sufficient resources to have enough control. Such a situation will inevitably occur because it is more profitable to collude than to compete.
Capitalism is designed to work this way, and will inevitably end up that way unless regulated. Most other systems are not designed to end up this way, but do so due to corruption.
Capitalism would certainly encourage the maximum number of people healthy and able to work, however it would also draw a line between cost of treatment vs value of the employee...
If you're so sick that treatment can only relieve symptoms but not restore you to working fitness, then capitalism would write you off and let you die. The less value you have as an employee, the less treatment you would get - if you're a low level grunt and you break some limbs that would keep you off work for 6 months, might be more cost efficient to let you die.
In fact in most of these cases it would be most cost efficient to kill you immediately, so you don't consume any resources as you die.
Capitalism certainly encourages efficiency, but people are not efficient... We are lazy and corrupt.
Then instead of taxing Apple, the government should force them to sell the buildings to the IRS for $200. This shouldn't be a problem for them if the building is truly only worth $200...
In fact, make a law making it compulsory to offer anything for sale to the IRS at 20% more than its declared value for tax purposes. If people make honest declarations it won't be worth buying, but if the declaration is fraudulently low the IRS can buy the item and sell it for its true market value.
The ATMs themselves have physical limits on how much cash they will dispense (ie number of bills) in a single transaction... But that's not the problem here.
Someone hacked a company which issues cards, and then issues fraudulent cards with an infinite balance on them. The ATM reads the card, queries the hacked provider via the card payment network (eg visa, mastercard etc) to see if the card issuer will allow the withdrawal. Since the provider has been hacked, they will respond to allow the withdrawal and the local ATM will dispense cash as it's designed to do.
As the provider is compromised, the attackers can generate as many accounts with as much balance as they want, and keep drawing out cash. The banks owning the ATMs will demand settlement from the hacked merchant, who will probably go bankrupt if the attackers extort enough cash.
Gender is not a social construct, it is a biological fact...
The social construct is how the genders are typically expected to behave, and is largely arbitrary and stupid. How you behave doesn't change your biological gender.
Yes they should be fined, driving significantly below the speed limit can be extremely dangerous when other vehicles are trying to follow the speed limits.
If they were better qualified than the available men, then they would already be appointed to the boards without needing any legislation. Companies are not going to appoint less qualified people unless they're forced to (eg by legislation like this)...
You turn to the seller to resolve it as the seller didn't provide you the goods you paid for... This is a breach of contract. You don't and never did have a relationship with the original manufacturer of the product.
People resort to paper because it's what they're used to, not necessarily because an electronic system is inadequate. That's not to say it isnt inadequate, just that fitness for its intended purpose often has very little effect on wether a system is actually deployed or used.
Exactly this. With copyright terms so long, we will all be long dead before anything we remember falls into the public domain. It's also likely that no readable copies will even exist by the time copyright expires.
Why would it cost anything? If an attacker is willing to perform illegal intrusions onto your wifi network, they're not going to balk at compromising someone else's systems to use for password cracking so it wouldn't be the attacker who's paying for those cpu cycles.
Password cracking tools have rules to take dictionaries and perform common substitutions like o->0, case toggling, appending of random characters and numbers, concatenating of words etc... They can also try many thousands or even millions of attempts per second depending on the algorithm and available processing power.
A dictionary word with numbers or a couple of random chars appended will not last long.
Agreed, although Oracle wouldn't be complaining if they were the ones getting the contract and they actively encourage customers to get locked in to their products so it's extremely hypocritical of them.
There are several frameworks allowing use of multiple cloud providers and easy migration between them.
Also once a lot of people move to LTE, it will slow down significantly... If everyone has their own last mile, it's relatively easy to upgrade the backhaul from the exchange but with LTE the last mile is shared between all users in an area and cannot be easily upgraded.
The backhaul bandwidth is only a tiny fraction of the cost to provide service, most of the cost is providing and maintaining the physical line so it doesn't cost significantly less for an ISP to provide a 2mb DSL service than it does to provide fibre assuming the infrastructure is already in place. If anything, providing DSL might cost more because the infrastructure is older and more likely to suffer problems.
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And all of the filesystems typically used for linux installations (xfs, jfs, reiserfs, ext2/3/4, btrfs) do support the same calls, it's only when you get to simplistic filesystems like FAT or special purpose filesystems that there are significant differences.
Linux retains a very high level of backwards compatibility as far as userland is concerned... You just target a minimum kernel version, and can reasonably expect your code to continue working on any future versions.
Binaries compiled for ancient linux distros still run on current ones providing you have all the libs they require, unless you explicitly disable the kernel options that support them. Source code that predates linux will often still compile and run on modern linux systems too.
It makes sense for mainstream distros to drop 32bit, especially the main server distros as there are few if any 32bit machines still being built.
Support for 64bit on linux is very mature, and the open source nature of the vast majority of applications means that everything has long ago been recompiled so you're not stuck with legacy 32bit binaries.
32bit should be relegated to embedded and legacy niches.
Well it doesn't function the same...
If your paying for a service you don't expect it to build a profile on you or shove advertising in your face. For many people, this difference is worth a small cost.
You can also use your own domain, and thus your own identity... Using someone else's domain especially one with millions of users means you will end up with a non memorable username like anonymouscoward43284902...
And on the topic of usernames, using your own domain allows you to create as many aliases as you want, which you can use as throwaway addresses - very useful when all manner of sites expect an email address to sign up, and then send you all manner of spam (or sell/leak your address to others who will spam you).
The "its simple and easy to do" is a problem in and of itself...
It might be simple to get a server barely functioning, but configuring it properly and keeping it secure is somewhat harder. This is why there are so many insecure boxes out there getting hacked and pumping out spam.
He's referring to the UK, where all banks provide fast domestic transfers and atm withdrawals...
Most consumer bank accounts are also free, so chances are this guy is not paying anything for the services he describes.
Business bank accounts often charge fees, and there are some premium accounts which give you additional services for a fee, but the basic standard bank accounts are free.
Merchants paying a fee to accept cards is normal, taking cash is not free either... It costs money to have stocks of small change, it costs to transport your takings to the bank, plus the risk of theft or losses. In many cases, the 2% card fee is actually cheaper than the cost of accepting cash and there aren't many alternatives to these two. It's a cost of doing business.
Because as per the design of the system, those private owners will choose personal profit even if it comes at the expense of society as a whole. Without regulation you will end up with a totalitarian system once a particular group has acquired sufficient resources to have enough control. Such a situation will inevitably occur because it is more profitable to collude than to compete.
Capitalism is designed to work this way, and will inevitably end up that way unless regulated.
Most other systems are not designed to end up this way, but do so due to corruption.
Capitalism would certainly encourage the maximum number of people healthy and able to work, however it would also draw a line between cost of treatment vs value of the employee...
If you're so sick that treatment can only relieve symptoms but not restore you to working fitness, then capitalism would write you off and let you die.
The less value you have as an employee, the less treatment you would get - if you're a low level grunt and you break some limbs that would keep you off work for 6 months, might be more cost efficient to let you die.
In fact in most of these cases it would be most cost efficient to kill you immediately, so you don't consume any resources as you die.
Capitalism certainly encourages efficiency, but people are not efficient... We are lazy and corrupt.
Only capitalism *is* bad in and of itself, which is exactly why it requires regulation to mitigate those flaws...
Then instead of taxing Apple, the government should force them to sell the buildings to the IRS for $200. This shouldn't be a problem for them if the building is truly only worth $200...
In fact, make a law making it compulsory to offer anything for sale to the IRS at 20% more than its declared value for tax purposes. If people make honest declarations it won't be worth buying, but if the declaration is fraudulently low the IRS can buy the item and sell it for its true market value.
Society is arbitrary, as evidenced by the fact we have so many of them each with their own artificial constructs...
The ATMs themselves have physical limits on how much cash they will dispense (ie number of bills) in a single transaction...
But that's not the problem here.
Someone hacked a company which issues cards, and then issues fraudulent cards with an infinite balance on them. The ATM reads the card, queries the hacked provider via the card payment network (eg visa, mastercard etc) to see if the card issuer will allow the withdrawal.
Since the provider has been hacked, they will respond to allow the withdrawal and the local ATM will dispense cash as it's designed to do.
As the provider is compromised, the attackers can generate as many accounts with as much balance as they want, and keep drawing out cash. The banks owning the ATMs will demand settlement from the hacked merchant, who will probably go bankrupt if the attackers extort enough cash.
Well that car has previously been owned by the dealership, so by your definition it's only "new" if you buy it direct from the manufacturer.
It's not been used unless one of those owners has driven it.
Gender is not a social construct, it is a biological fact...
The social construct is how the genders are typically expected to behave, and is largely arbitrary and stupid. How you behave doesn't change your biological gender.
Yes they should be fined, driving significantly below the speed limit can be extremely dangerous when other vehicles are trying to follow the speed limits.
If they were better qualified than the available men, then they would already be appointed to the boards without needing any legislation. Companies are not going to appoint less qualified people unless they're forced to (eg by legislation like this)...
You turn to the seller to resolve it as the seller didn't provide you the goods you paid for... This is a breach of contract.
You don't and never did have a relationship with the original manufacturer of the product.
Since the game *was* new, shipped in its original shrinkwrap having never been opened, Amazon wouldn't have done anything - nor should they.
People resort to paper because it's what they're used to, not necessarily because an electronic system is inadequate.
That's not to say it isnt inadequate, just that fitness for its intended purpose often has very little effect on wether a system is actually deployed or used.
Exactly this.
With copyright terms so long, we will all be long dead before anything we remember falls into the public domain. It's also likely that no readable copies will even exist by the time copyright expires.
Why would it cost anything? If an attacker is willing to perform illegal intrusions onto your wifi network, they're not going to balk at compromising someone else's systems to use for password cracking so it wouldn't be the attacker who's paying for those cpu cycles.
Password cracking tools have rules to take dictionaries and perform common substitutions like o->0, case toggling, appending of random characters and numbers, concatenating of words etc... They can also try many thousands or even millions of attempts per second depending on the algorithm and available processing power.
A dictionary word with numbers or a couple of random chars appended will not last long.
Agreed, although Oracle wouldn't be complaining if they were the ones getting the contract and they actively encourage customers to get locked in to their products so it's extremely hypocritical of them.
There are several frameworks allowing use of multiple cloud providers and easy migration between them.
Also once a lot of people move to LTE, it will slow down significantly...
If everyone has their own last mile, it's relatively easy to upgrade the backhaul from the exchange but with LTE the last mile is shared between all users in an area and cannot be easily upgraded.
The backhaul bandwidth is only a tiny fraction of the cost to provide service, most of the cost is providing and maintaining the physical line so it doesn't cost significantly less for an ISP to provide a 2mb DSL service than it does to provide fibre assuming the infrastructure is already in place.
If anything, providing DSL might cost more because the infrastructure is older and more likely to suffer problems.