Why is anyone even attempting to maintain the fiction that the Democrats care about the American working class? They told them to get fucked in the last election. The future is women and minorities, aka the Obama coalition
I can't think of too many places left that do not employ women and minorities... By "American working class" you must mean us white guys.
I love my claw hammer. It works for anything I want to build, and I never need other tools. People who use ball-peen hammers or malletts obviously don't know how to use hammers properly. Anybody who uses screwdrivers or wrenches is obviously an idiot, who doesn't really understand how to build things.
Tin-foil hat mode here... What if this awesome "free IRS app" were to store and report on things like changes in values, corrections, etc.. In theory, they could use that as one of the factors in evaluating whether to audit somebody or not (ex. "if income value changes more than X times, add Y to we-should-audit-this-guy score). Given how well I type, that would be a bummer...
I like your breakdown. I'd perhaps add a fifth ring, consisting of custom, home-brew applications (Windows fat client, ASP.NET, etc.) that may have been written years ago that still "work" and provide value to the small/medium business cobble them together. While the vast majority of these could probably be rewritten as web applications using a FOSS stack, there may not be anybody who can effectively argue why the business would want to spend the time, effort and money (despite the risk of such legacy software). I'm shocked at how much Visual Basic and Microsoft Access applications are still in use. Also, there are plenty of applications supporting peripherals and equipment that not only require Windows, but 32 bit Windows.
Another example of "Ring 4" may be applications that support proprietary hardware. Where I work, we have $75k+ printing presses that we have to maintain Windows 7 32 bit for, despite the fact that the OS will no longer be supported. The vendor has no upgrade path, other than to make huge new capital expenditures that have no feasible ROI argument.
I use Linux Mint as my daily driver at work, but our home computer is, sadly, still running Windows.
Vertical Applications: Plenty of fat-client Windows applications still out there in the workplace, and if somebody uses Windows at work, they are more likely to use it at home. Even if it isn't the same version. Even if it's an entirely different use case. Even if it makes no sense.
"Almost Good Enough" Applications. Applications like GIMP, Audacity and Libre Office are almost as good as their Windows/MacOS counterparts, but never as good, let alone better., It may have something to do with people are used to paying for applications on Windows/MacOS, and get mixed up between "free as in beer" and "free as in freedom" on Linux.
"etc" spelunking: there are still way too many instances where you have to go hacking around/etc to make things work (ex. U2F/Yubi keys) and that isn't really an option for "Grandma", especially since/etc can be organized differently between distros,
Hardware Compatibility: Yes, this is still a thing. Whether it's half-hearted support (ex. networked Brother scanners) or manufacturers willingly not supporting their hardware with Linux (ex. Lenovo fingerprint scanners), there are still a non-trivial number of compatibility roadblocks. The nuances of the "you bought the wrong hardware" or "closed drivers" arguments will be lost on those used to Windows/MacOS where things typically work.
Anything application or hardware runs either on Windows or Linux will work better under Linux. But there are still too many applications, and too many pieces of hardware, that do not work on Linux.
I have the right to do anything I want, as long as it doesn't impinge on others' liberties or wallets. In the case of things like seat belts and motorcycle helmets, if somebody chooses not to use them and is in a high-speed collision, who pays to clean up the mess? Is it the genius who believes a seat belt's only purpose is to keep you from getting "safely" thrown out the car? When the highway shuts down because road pizza has to be cleaned and the accident site inspected, Is it the freedom-loving bike rider with a copy of the Constitution in his pocket who pays the cost? Not so much.
Responsibility and limits on the rights of property ownership are not strictly liberal or anti-constitutional concepts. I live in freedom-loving Texas, and it is easier for me to go buy a semi-automatic rifle than it is to get a permit to build a shed in my backyard. There are limits on what I can display in my front yard. And I have to go get my vehicle safety-checked every-f'ing year, which is even more onerous than California's every-two-year deal (at least it was every-two-years when I lived there 10 years ago).
There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical about this technology, and I don't disagree that it is invasive. But there are plenty of examples in North Texas, and everywhere else, of road fatalities due to drunk driving, it is not a rare thing. If you want to get hammered, you retain the freedom to drink all you want; and then call a cab, a Lyft/Uber, or a buddy or family member. Maybe this works like airbags where you retain the ability to turn it off or bypass it; and if you do get into a smash-up and the functionality is disabled/bypassed, it makes it easier to determine if there is a misdemeanor or felony involved.
I'd be surprised if the car manufacturers, who have pushed back on every safety regulation, unless they can market it as a pay-for feature, were the ones really behind this. I could see auto insurance and state/municipal law enforcement being all-in on this. (I'm not turning off Ghostery so I can RTFA).
Sex Pedo Dolls? Different thing. If the argument being made is that simulated sexual assault on a minor will truly decrease pedophilia (a limited-scale, horrible problem), then the same argument would have to be made about simulated murder (video games, laser tag, Nerf guns etc.) reducing real murder (a large-scale, horrible problem). Other than the ratings on video games, recommended ages for toys, etc. all those things are still around. I don't see this kind of ban going anywhere. First and Fourth amendment arguments would eventually shut this kind of a ban down.
Just wait until the peers of this jury of peers has to decide upon a class-action suit against immunization manufacturers, claiming it causes autism...
Moved to Texas about five years ago, from Nevada. Anybody who is selling the idea that GOP-run states are bastions of regulation-free sanity is shilling. In any city or suburb with lots of an acre or under, what you can do with your house (what trees you can cut down, how big a patio can be, etc.) is largely controlled by the same levels regulations/permits/etc. you would find in Southern California (where I also lived).
It seems less about mistrust of government than mistrust of the "next level". Local municipalities mistrust the state government in Austin, which is largely derided as "liberal", especially when it comes to things like school funding. The geniuses in state government (like Gov. Abbott, L. Gov Patrick, or our proud boot-lickers, senators Cruz and Cornyn) constantly decry the evil of the federal government. And, of course, national GOP never passes up to undercut international organizations like the UN, WTO, etc.
Back to the topic, though, I think the posts saying that this about protecting dealerships are likely right. In North Texas, auto dealerships spend lots of money on TV advertising, it's at least half of what you see on local news advertising, and they do throw lots of capital into their showrooms and facilities. They obviously make a lot of money and aren't afraid to throw it around, and are probably showering the state government with it, in the hopes of not becoming the next dead retail segment, buried in the same pit as anchor-store shopping malls.
A lot of hosted applications, especially those where the heavy client lifting has been moved client-side (Angular, React, etc.), could be described as accept parameters, call a database based upon those parameters, organize data into an acceptable payload and return that payload. It's hard to see why these would be dependent upon x86. Same for ETLs. If the power consumption/cost argument for ARM servers is really as compelling as being advertised, there might be something there.
ARM may not be a fit for everything (speech and image recognition, bitcoin mining, etc.), but there is probably a lot of code in NodeJS, Python, etc. that would probably run fine. VMs and even containers can be set up as ARM, and mitigate a lot of the whole "the server doesn't match my home rig" concern raised. Risk can be further mitigated with adequate unit and integration testing. Load starts becoming a more significant variant, but adequate testing can mitigate that risk as well.
I wouldn't discount the possibility of government stepping in and putting more restrains and regulation on power consumption of the larger data centers. If that were to happen, the costs to run x86 hardware at less-than-full capacity/inefficiency could become significant.
This isn't an appropriately Luddite response for Slashdot, but I don't miss the headphone jack. Why? Because I don't miss one-half of my audio disappearing when I bumped the cable or, worse, the headphone jack just stop working for one ear because the contacts got messed up in the jack itself. I don't miss the cable flapping around. I don't miss bending/breaking the plugs that for some mind-numbing reason rarely were the 90-degree angle that would keep them from getting bent/broken.
Yeah, charging headphones is a bit of a pain. But so is charging my phone, my notebook and my tablet. I've learned to deal with that. If ditching the headphone jack truly was a trade-off to allow more room for a battery, I'm fine with it, I'd rather have the battery life. Perhaps if I was also a blogger for Tech Crunch or similar publication, I would have enough devices that the Bluetooth pairing issue described would be annoying, but I don't. For me, and my small universe of devices, Bluetooth headphones work well enough, even the cheap Ankers I use 90% of the time.
I don't see this as a freedom (or "bravery") topic or even a big deal. It's an area where for reasons of efficiency (or more likely, cost) the market moved away from something. For the audiophiles with $400 cans, they were complaining about the digitized music in the first place. For the people who miss getting cheap $10 headphones at Ross or Marshall's that they could lose or throw away without feeling bad, there are almost as-cheap Bluetooth alternatives. It sort of reminds me when physical keyboards went away. We adapted, and we're fine.
It sucks that they are going to pry into what I do, when I do it. It sucks worse that they will sell this information, and not invest in the data governance and security required to protect that information.
Ok... decades old drug, these guys are taking advantage of a government-mandated monopoly (patent) that turned into a natural monopoly - US patent exclusivity is seven years. FDA needs to create a process to automatically institute a fast-track for generic competition in cases like this where a drug's price is increased by over a defined threshold (100%?). The resources required to staff such fast tracking should be recoverable in reduced cost to Medicare/Medicaid/etc. Let the Pharmacy Benefit Managers pitch in, for that matter... they are supposed to be all about managing the price of drugs. This is a simple way to do it.
Good point. If enough people take up tracking protection, maybe given enough time, the whole mechanism of Twitter embeds will be given up upon. To me, this would be a good thing.
S3 is object storage, not a database. While AWS offers front-ends like Athena to query it, it's still a file system. You can persist lots of data pretty economically, but it's not a database. You do get benefits like automatic replication across regions, archive policies, etc. If you consider S3 a database, I guess you would have to consider NFS one as well.
DynamoDB is indeed a NoSQL database, and, yeah, I would not use it for transactional database operations. Amazon hardly always encourages NoSQL, though, they offer RDS (hosted MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL and even Oracle) as well as their own relational solution Aurora, which is a highly scalable MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database and supports transactions.
If Amazon encourages anything, it's to leverage a combo of RDS/Aurora for transactional work, DynamoDb or Elasticache (Redis) for key-based persistence and then Redshift and EMR (Hadoop/Pig/etc.) for warehousing/lakes/analytics; and then using leveraging things like Lambda and SQS to "glue" things together. Of course, leveraging that entire stack can easily lock one into their ecosystem (which Bezos won't shed any tears over); but along with the other gazillion service offerings they offer, it is pretty comprehensive.
Our advice, which mirrors that of the researchers, is to immediately disable and/or uninstall tools that automatically decrypt PGP-encrypted email.
In other news, lock picks can be used to open up your model of door lock. We advise you to remove all door locks from your door until a lock pick proof lock can be engineered and installed.
Do you have a specific case you are referring to? I'm familiar with Sony v. Universal City Studios in the 80's, which was about using VCRs to record television. I'm not familiar with any US Supreme Court case involving Title 17 of the US Code / Copyright. There is nothing in the Copyright law that I know of that explicitly allows you (or disallows you) from doing so.
They never sold the music, you only got the rights to listen to the media you got. Even cassette tapes were subject to US copyright law. Legally, you could not make a copy of it, you could not digitize it. Given that there was no DRM, and the vast majority of copies (pre-digital) were for personal use, the music labels rarely went out on a witch-hunt against people making copies of the vinyl onto cassette so they could listen to it in their car.
We may have had the illusion of owning the music, but for better or worse, we never did.
If you are going any length of distance to somewhere that is not a known landmark (NAIA, MoA, whatever), a cab driver is going to bump-up any pre-negotiated rate much higher than what the meter would be. Every time I got in cabs with Filipinos, they always got the cab driver to turn on the meter if they started complaining about traffic and were trying to set a fixed rate. If you dictated set rates that the cab driver didn't haggle with you about, I'm sure you were making his day.
I'm not sure what kinds of cabs and Ubers you got, but every Uber I have taken in the last couple of years has been better than just about any beat up Vios or Corolla cab I've ended up in. YMMV (and apparently, has). Might be that I was lucky, I guess I'll see next trip.
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Why is anyone even attempting to maintain the fiction that the Democrats care about the American working class? They told them to get fucked in the last election. The future is women and minorities, aka the Obama coalition
I can't think of too many places left that do not employ women and minorities... By "American working class" you must mean us white guys.
I love my claw hammer. It works for anything I want to build, and I never need other tools. People who use ball-peen hammers or malletts obviously don't know how to use hammers properly. Anybody who uses screwdrivers or wrenches is obviously an idiot, who doesn't really understand how to build things.
Wonder about those of us poor saps that Verizon sold to Frontier...
Tin-foil hat mode here... What if this awesome "free IRS app" were to store and report on things like changes in values, corrections, etc.. In theory, they could use that as one of the factors in evaluating whether to audit somebody or not (ex. "if income value changes more than X times, add Y to we-should-audit-this-guy score). Given how well I type, that would be a bummer...
I like your breakdown. I'd perhaps add a fifth ring, consisting of custom, home-brew applications (Windows fat client, ASP.NET, etc.) that may have been written years ago that still "work" and provide value to the small/medium business cobble them together. While the vast majority of these could probably be rewritten as web applications using a FOSS stack, there may not be anybody who can effectively argue why the business would want to spend the time, effort and money (despite the risk of such legacy software). I'm shocked at how much Visual Basic and Microsoft Access applications are still in use. Also, there are plenty of applications supporting peripherals and equipment that not only require Windows, but 32 bit Windows.
Another example of "Ring 4" may be applications that support proprietary hardware. Where I work, we have $75k+ printing presses that we have to maintain Windows 7 32 bit for, despite the fact that the OS will no longer be supported. The vendor has no upgrade path, other than to make huge new capital expenditures that have no feasible ROI argument.
I use Linux Mint as my daily driver at work, but our home computer is, sadly, still running Windows.
Anything application or hardware runs either on Windows or Linux will work better under Linux. But there are still too many applications, and too many pieces of hardware, that do not work on Linux.
Your an idiot. Linux is Easy to use. Problem is lack of software. I can't use any OS that doesn't have putty.
"Your" either trolling, misinformed or just stupid. https://www.ssh.com/ssh/putty/...
I have the right to do anything I want, as long as it doesn't impinge on others' liberties or wallets. In the case of things like seat belts and motorcycle helmets, if somebody chooses not to use them and is in a high-speed collision, who pays to clean up the mess? Is it the genius who believes a seat belt's only purpose is to keep you from getting "safely" thrown out the car? When the highway shuts down because road pizza has to be cleaned and the accident site inspected, Is it the freedom-loving bike rider with a copy of the Constitution in his pocket who pays the cost? Not so much.
Responsibility and limits on the rights of property ownership are not strictly liberal or anti-constitutional concepts. I live in freedom-loving Texas, and it is easier for me to go buy a semi-automatic rifle than it is to get a permit to build a shed in my backyard. There are limits on what I can display in my front yard. And I have to go get my vehicle safety-checked every-f'ing year, which is even more onerous than California's every-two-year deal (at least it was every-two-years when I lived there 10 years ago).
There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical about this technology, and I don't disagree that it is invasive. But there are plenty of examples in North Texas, and everywhere else, of road fatalities due to drunk driving, it is not a rare thing. If you want to get hammered, you retain the freedom to drink all you want; and then call a cab, a Lyft/Uber, or a buddy or family member. Maybe this works like airbags where you retain the ability to turn it off or bypass it; and if you do get into a smash-up and the functionality is disabled/bypassed, it makes it easier to determine if there is a misdemeanor or felony involved.
I'd be surprised if the car manufacturers, who have pushed back on every safety regulation, unless they can market it as a pay-for feature, were the ones really behind this. I could see auto insurance and state/municipal law enforcement being all-in on this. (I'm not turning off Ghostery so I can RTFA).
Sex Pedo Dolls? Different thing. If the argument being made is that simulated sexual assault on a minor will truly decrease pedophilia (a limited-scale, horrible problem), then the same argument would have to be made about simulated murder (video games, laser tag, Nerf guns etc.) reducing real murder (a large-scale, horrible problem). Other than the ratings on video games, recommended ages for toys, etc. all those things are still around. I don't see this kind of ban going anywhere. First and Fourth amendment arguments would eventually shut this kind of a ban down.
Are they accepting pull requests? I have some suggestions.
Just wait until the peers of this jury of peers has to decide upon a class-action suit against immunization manufacturers, claiming it causes autism...
Moved to Texas about five years ago, from Nevada. Anybody who is selling the idea that GOP-run states are bastions of regulation-free sanity is shilling. In any city or suburb with lots of an acre or under, what you can do with your house (what trees you can cut down, how big a patio can be, etc.) is largely controlled by the same levels regulations/permits/etc. you would find in Southern California (where I also lived).
It seems less about mistrust of government than mistrust of the "next level". Local municipalities mistrust the state government in Austin, which is largely derided as "liberal", especially when it comes to things like school funding. The geniuses in state government (like Gov. Abbott, L. Gov Patrick, or our proud boot-lickers, senators Cruz and Cornyn) constantly decry the evil of the federal government. And, of course, national GOP never passes up to undercut international organizations like the UN, WTO, etc.
Back to the topic, though, I think the posts saying that this about protecting dealerships are likely right. In North Texas, auto dealerships spend lots of money on TV advertising, it's at least half of what you see on local news advertising, and they do throw lots of capital into their showrooms and facilities. They obviously make a lot of money and aren't afraid to throw it around, and are probably showering the state government with it, in the hopes of not becoming the next dead retail segment, buried in the same pit as anchor-store shopping malls.
While you're at it, why use a signed type at all?
A lot of hosted applications, especially those where the heavy client lifting has been moved client-side (Angular, React, etc.), could be described as accept parameters, call a database based upon those parameters, organize data into an acceptable payload and return that payload. It's hard to see why these would be dependent upon x86. Same for ETLs. If the power consumption/cost argument for ARM servers is really as compelling as being advertised, there might be something there.
ARM may not be a fit for everything (speech and image recognition, bitcoin mining, etc.), but there is probably a lot of code in NodeJS, Python, etc. that would probably run fine. VMs and even containers can be set up as ARM, and mitigate a lot of the whole "the server doesn't match my home rig" concern raised. Risk can be further mitigated with adequate unit and integration testing. Load starts becoming a more significant variant, but adequate testing can mitigate that risk as well.
I wouldn't discount the possibility of government stepping in and putting more restrains and regulation on power consumption of the larger data centers. If that were to happen, the costs to run x86 hardware at less-than-full capacity/inefficiency could become significant.
This isn't an appropriately Luddite response for Slashdot, but I don't miss the headphone jack. Why? Because I don't miss one-half of my audio disappearing when I bumped the cable or, worse, the headphone jack just stop working for one ear because the contacts got messed up in the jack itself. I don't miss the cable flapping around. I don't miss bending/breaking the plugs that for some mind-numbing reason rarely were the 90-degree angle that would keep them from getting bent/broken.
Yeah, charging headphones is a bit of a pain. But so is charging my phone, my notebook and my tablet. I've learned to deal with that. If ditching the headphone jack truly was a trade-off to allow more room for a battery, I'm fine with it, I'd rather have the battery life. Perhaps if I was also a blogger for Tech Crunch or similar publication, I would have enough devices that the Bluetooth pairing issue described would be annoying, but I don't. For me, and my small universe of devices, Bluetooth headphones work well enough, even the cheap Ankers I use 90% of the time.
I don't see this as a freedom (or "bravery") topic or even a big deal. It's an area where for reasons of efficiency (or more likely, cost) the market moved away from something. For the audiophiles with $400 cans, they were complaining about the digitized music in the first place. For the people who miss getting cheap $10 headphones at Ross or Marshall's that they could lose or throw away without feeling bad, there are almost as-cheap Bluetooth alternatives. It sort of reminds me when physical keyboards went away. We adapted, and we're fine.
Mmmm... Whale Shark Lumpia...
And me without any points to give...
Evernote laid off more people (54) than the message count of a front-page Slashdot thread trumpeting its downfall (currently at 44). RIP.
It sucks that they are going to pry into what I do, when I do it. It sucks worse that they will sell this information, and not invest in the data governance and security required to protect that information.
Ok... decades old drug, these guys are taking advantage of a government-mandated monopoly (patent) that turned into a natural monopoly - US patent exclusivity is seven years. FDA needs to create a process to automatically institute a fast-track for generic competition in cases like this where a drug's price is increased by over a defined threshold (100%?). The resources required to staff such fast tracking should be recoverable in reduced cost to Medicare/Medicaid/etc. Let the Pharmacy Benefit Managers pitch in, for that matter... they are supposed to be all about managing the price of drugs. This is a simple way to do it.
Good point. If enough people take up tracking protection, maybe given enough time, the whole mechanism of Twitter embeds will be given up upon. To me, this would be a good thing.
Just noticed integrated tracking protection - kind of nice
S3 is object storage, not a database. While AWS offers front-ends like Athena to query it, it's still a file system. You can persist lots of data pretty economically, but it's not a database. You do get benefits like automatic replication across regions, archive policies, etc. If you consider S3 a database, I guess you would have to consider NFS one as well.
DynamoDB is indeed a NoSQL database, and, yeah, I would not use it for transactional database operations. Amazon hardly always encourages NoSQL, though, they offer RDS (hosted MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL and even Oracle) as well as their own relational solution Aurora, which is a highly scalable MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database and supports transactions.
If Amazon encourages anything, it's to leverage a combo of RDS/Aurora for transactional work, DynamoDb or Elasticache (Redis) for key-based persistence and then Redshift and EMR (Hadoop/Pig/etc.) for warehousing/lakes/analytics; and then using leveraging things like Lambda and SQS to "glue" things together. Of course, leveraging that entire stack can easily lock one into their ecosystem (which Bezos won't shed any tears over); but along with the other gazillion service offerings they offer, it is pretty comprehensive.
In other news, lock picks can be used to open up your model of door lock. We advise you to remove all door locks from your door until a lock pick proof lock can be engineered and installed.
Do you have a specific case you are referring to? I'm familiar with Sony v. Universal City Studios in the 80's, which was about using VCRs to record television. I'm not familiar with any US Supreme Court case involving Title 17 of the US Code / Copyright. There is nothing in the Copyright law that I know of that explicitly allows you (or disallows you) from doing so.
They never sold the music, you only got the rights to listen to the media you got. Even cassette tapes were subject to US copyright law. Legally, you could not make a copy of it, you could not digitize it. Given that there was no DRM, and the vast majority of copies (pre-digital) were for personal use, the music labels rarely went out on a witch-hunt against people making copies of the vinyl onto cassette so they could listen to it in their car.
We may have had the illusion of owning the music, but for better or worse, we never did.
If you are going any length of distance to somewhere that is not a known landmark (NAIA, MoA, whatever), a cab driver is going to bump-up any pre-negotiated rate much higher than what the meter would be. Every time I got in cabs with Filipinos, they always got the cab driver to turn on the meter if they started complaining about traffic and were trying to set a fixed rate. If you dictated set rates that the cab driver didn't haggle with you about, I'm sure you were making his day.
I'm not sure what kinds of cabs and Ubers you got, but every Uber I have taken in the last couple of years has been better than just about any beat up Vios or Corolla cab I've ended up in. YMMV (and apparently, has). Might be that I was lucky, I guess I'll see next trip.