According to directions side-thread, glibc versions prior to 2.19 are vulnerable. Checking my machines, Slackware-current and Lubuntu-14.10 are fine. Only my poor tiny Raspberry Pis are vulnerable (2.13). But they run slowly enough I can watch the gethostbyname() lookups myself:)
Apologies, I meant "guarantees" in a rhetorical not legalistic sense.
Shared media contention (10base2, unswitched 10baseT) collisions are somewhat different from saturated upload throttling download (ACK delays). As you point out, topography can help the former but the latter needs something smarter (QoS?)
I believe the current "cloud" service model puts _much_ heavier stress on upload as devices sync large photo and video files. So asymmetric services are out-of-balance.
Fine to have good bandwidth from an ISP hub (DSLAM or DOCSIS server) but what guarantees it is available?
I have noticed that during the Internet rush hours (mostly evenings 4-10pm, especially Sunday) that many providers underprovision their upward links. (I'm not hitting loaded servers.) I have only a 6/1 and often I cannot get 3/0.5.
This will be a very local thing and depends on how much the ISP has [over]sold and your neighbors usage (both cable and DSL). YMMV.
You could do this easily with a Raspberry Pi ARM, especially the A+ (200mA) or something a bit larger like the Banana Pi (350mA) or for x86-64 devotees, an ECS Liva (550mA@5V).
I use these and form factor is the issue -- the tiny things become like octopus hubs with a number of cables in & out. Some like the HDMI are fairly heavy and stiff. The little board/box gets lifted and controlled by the cords.
I'd never want a mouse with those cables tying it down. The Chromecast-style HDMI stick (one coming from Intel) is a bit better, but what happens when your HDMI port is upside-down or inaccessible for all the other cables? Then you need to find a rare MF extention cable or FF coupler. HDMI does not provide enough 5V power (50 mA IIRC) to power a CPU.
"You want it -- you got it! Only we'll be sure to make bodycams useless." [LAPD] Recording after discharge only captures the damage done for which there is also medical evidence. As mentioned side-thread, it does not record what lead up to the discharge and justifies it. Or not.
Some Police officers may dislike continuous monitoring. (I suspect many don't mind, probably the more honest.) Yet monitoring is routine, nearly universal in the private sector anywhere a dispute may arise. Often at police recomendation!
Do Police Officers think they are "Special"? If so, it is the "short bus" kind:)
And that is the key -- enough CPU to run a "modern" browser. Of course the specs are different -- so are the various unamed RPi model "B" (no fuse, 256MB, with holes,...). The key with hardware is what it will run.
The easiest way to increase competition in monopolistic settings is to encourage/enforce self-competition. Who is Microsoft's most difficult competition? Previous versions of its own software! Similarly, if net neutrality unhappily fails, then ISP have to offer both plans with audited kickback differences only affecting pricing.
Net neutrality is misunderstood by both sides. There is no "fast lane" -- everything travels as fast as possible. The only way ICS to implement a non-neutral net is to buffer/drop certain selected packets at times of congestion. That shunts them to the "slow lane", perpetrating a systematic fraud (viiolating promised "best efforts" for benefit) upon both ISP customers and upstream providers.
Mercy, from a bureaucracy? Please don't make me laugh so hard. As others have said, if they had evidence, they'd use it. Here, they are entrapping confessions with [false] inducement.
But really, all educational institutions have moved from education more towards filtering/certification (why else all the accreditation?) In this mode, success however gained _should_be_ rewarded. If some rat can weasel out marks, why won't s/he weasel out IRL?
Certainly ad-hominem (of which harassment is but an extreme form) is essentially a concession of the logical argument in favor of the opponent. It is nonetheless used (heavily in politics) because the target audience is untrained in recognizing fallacies.
In arguing against harassment, exception (or silence) is often made for topics one feels righteously passionate about (climate change, Holocaust deniers, etc). If one cannot defend one's enemies against unfair attack, then it is unprincipled and merely opportunistic to defend anyone else, especially one's allies.
This looks like the OPP wanting to make their jobs easier. Guess what? Policing is not supposed to be an easy job and certainly not by short-cutting individual rights. Such short-cutting is a form of corruption -- doing something for their own benefit (better collar record).
The cops need to get out of Timmy's and do some real police work tracking down perps. Not asking their jobs be made easier at everyone else's expense.
Most modern lives revolve around clock-time, so DST/summer time makes some sense at middle latitudes -- more natural light when lamps otherwise would be burnt in the early evening (less in the morning when fewer are burnt).
DST make no sense at all at lower latitudes with little change in daylight hours with the seasons. Nor at very high latitudes with extreme changes.
A bigger question is whether the benefit is worth the circadian disruption -- world-wide jetlag. This is similar to countries deciding to be on half-hour time zones -- is the benefit worth the confusion? There will always be differing values, so differing opinions. No answer unless we can set 1h jetlag = XX kWh . You can try with money as the scale, then I suspect the answer is NO DST even at middle latitudes.
What conflict? I never saw any, except for strict literalists (blasphemers) who believe that G-d's "Days" necessarily are the same as ours with 1440 minutes. What if They average 3 billion of our years? Not necessarily linearly constant either. Space is not, why should time be?
The Atom tablets are below that, but do not have HDMI output. The SBCs have been there for a while (a bit more expensive), but suck more power 20W vs 1.2W. I have and use both, still like my RPis.
This looks like the electronic equivalent of haggling in a shop [bazaar]. Contrast this with the [anglo] best-price, take-it-or-leave it across multiple competitors. As a consumer, I vastly prefer the latter. As a seller I might prefer haggling (tied customers), but only if I have power when I buy (often I'm as tied).
A consumer negotiating with a seller is a grand delusion. The seller knows far more about their costs and market demand than you ever can. They spend their careers at it. All you can do is walk away, hopefully there are competitors. IMHO, this is the great different between First- and Third-World economies -- competition in the former, and very-restricted (cronyism) in the latter.
So I stay away from anything that looks like haggling (even MiR). That is my only choice.
This sounds like a tough problem -- you've thought about it, examined many angles, yet cannot find a clear winner. So time to bring out the PHB decision tool, Flip a Coin!
Seriously. You've examined all the alternatives rather thoroughly with more data & values than we can know yet cannot determine a winner. They must be evenly balanced, so a coin toss (PRNG) is as good a decision method as any other. If you insist on persistantly over-thinking this question, then devote your efforts to finding something _new_ that turns the question into a slam-dunk.
ObOnTopic: If you mention the patent, many HR types will assume you assigned it to a previous employer. They might be impressed, or they might worry their software will be contaminated/infringe this other company's IP.
First, there are the knee-jerk responses of an "Intelligence" organisation never wanting to let anything truthful be known about it, and particularly detesting FIOA requests. Traitors. Then there is the bureaucratic response of never saying anything lest you be accused of inaccuracy.
But there also is a real security concern for the agency involved -- in answering "what did you release", they burn clandestine "leakers" as stooges. I do not think Snowden was a deliberate leak, but unless proven otherwise I assume about half the leaks are plants.
I'll buy (may swtich to Linux) if it has a micro HDMI output so I can dock the thing at a real monitor (1960*1200 min). I've been looking around to tablets as desktop replacements and found relatively few x86 with HDMI out.
I've stayed with Slackware for 20 years. I've looked at others, but cannot abide SysV mess'o'symlinks init. chmod +x is about all I want or need. systemd might be slightly less bad, but it is still over-complex. I reboot my machines once a year (typically Xmas) whether they need it or not.
As Daimler AG is a German company, many employees will take a whole month off (July-August). Lots of big email (dwgs/photos) can arrive in a month. As a result of US auto-liability litigation, they probably have lawyers limiting the size of their email (&other files) to something the lawyers can digest, like 100 MB per user. Already nearly full, many accounts will lock. To save the fixup grief, just bounce everything. Problem solved.
Look folks -- nothing on the internet, least of all email, is intended to be reliable. That it often is, is no guarantee that it always is. If you don't remember to resend mail when the server is open, or your MTA doesn't follow RFCs then you have only your sloth to blame.
Probably easy to find for the DoJ. Ask jobchangers. But not necessary. Anti-Trust law is highly unusual -- the govt does not need to prove harm, and it is much closer to "guilty until proven innocent". Just ask the oilcos.
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According to directions side-thread, glibc versions prior to 2.19 are vulnerable. Checking my machines, Slackware-current and Lubuntu-14.10 are fine. Only my poor tiny Raspberry Pis are vulnerable (2.13). But they run slowly enough I can watch the gethostbyname() lookups myself :)
Shared media contention (10base2, unswitched 10baseT) collisions are somewhat different from saturated upload throttling download (ACK delays). As you point out, topography can help the former but the latter needs something smarter (QoS?)
I believe the current "cloud" service model puts _much_ heavier stress on upload as devices sync large photo and video files. So asymmetric services are out-of-balance.
Fine to have good bandwidth from an ISP hub (DSLAM or DOCSIS server) but what guarantees it is available?
I have noticed that during the Internet rush hours (mostly evenings 4-10pm, especially Sunday) that many providers underprovision their upward links. (I'm not hitting loaded servers.) I have only a 6/1 and often I cannot get 3/0.5 .
This will be a very local thing and depends on how much the ISP has [over]sold and your neighbors usage (both cable and DSL). YMMV.
Check out some of the ergonomic mice. Not inexpensive, but demanding minority products seldom are.
Personally, I like the Evoluent vertical mouse. Reduces pronation (twist) and available LH as well as right.
You could do this easily with a Raspberry Pi ARM, especially the A+ (200mA) or something a bit larger like the Banana Pi (350mA) or for x86-64 devotees, an ECS Liva (550mA@5V).
I use these and form factor is the issue -- the tiny things become like octopus hubs with a number of cables in & out. Some like the HDMI are fairly heavy and stiff. The little board/box gets lifted and controlled by the cords.
I'd never want a mouse with those cables tying it down. The Chromecast-style HDMI stick (one coming from Intel) is a bit better, but what happens when your HDMI port is upside-down or inaccessible for all the other cables? Then you need to find a rare MF extention cable or FF coupler. HDMI does not provide enough 5V power (50 mA IIRC) to power a CPU.
"You want it -- you got it! Only we'll be sure to make bodycams useless." [LAPD] Recording after discharge only captures the damage done for which there is also medical evidence. As mentioned side-thread, it does not record what lead up to the discharge and justifies it. Or not.
Some Police officers may dislike continuous monitoring. (I suspect many don't mind, probably the more honest.) Yet monitoring is routine, nearly universal in the private sector anywhere a dispute may arise. Often at police recomendation!
Do Police Officers think they are "Special"? If so, it is the "short bus" kind :)
And that is the key -- enough CPU to run a "modern" browser. Of course the specs are different -- so are the various unamed RPi model "B" (no fuse, 256MB, with holes, ...). The key with hardware is what it will run.
SBCs are nice, but this one isn't really new.
The easiest way to increase competition in monopolistic settings is to encourage/enforce self-competition. Who is Microsoft's most difficult competition? Previous versions of its own software! Similarly, if net neutrality unhappily fails, then ISP have to offer both plans with audited kickback differences only affecting pricing.
Net neutrality is misunderstood by both sides. There is no "fast lane" -- everything travels as fast as possible. The only way ICS to implement a non-neutral net is to buffer/drop certain selected packets at times of congestion. That shunts them to the "slow lane", perpetrating a systematic fraud (viiolating promised "best efforts" for benefit) upon both ISP customers and upstream providers.
Mercy, from a bureaucracy? Please don't make me laugh so hard. As others have said, if they had evidence, they'd use it. Here, they are entrapping confessions with [false] inducement.
But really, all educational institutions have moved from education more towards filtering/certification (why else all the accreditation?) In this mode, success however gained _should_be_ rewarded. If some rat can weasel out marks, why won't s/he weasel out IRL?
Certainly ad-hominem (of which harassment is but an extreme form) is essentially a concession of the logical argument in favor of the opponent. It is nonetheless used (heavily in politics) because the target audience is untrained in recognizing fallacies.
In arguing against harassment, exception (or silence) is often made for topics one feels righteously passionate about (climate change, Holocaust deniers, etc). If one cannot defend one's enemies against unfair attack, then it is unprincipled and merely opportunistic to defend anyone else, especially one's allies.
This looks like the OPP wanting to make their jobs easier. Guess what? Policing is not supposed to be an easy job and certainly not by short-cutting individual rights. Such short-cutting is a form of corruption -- doing something for their own benefit (better collar record).
The cops need to get out of Timmy's and do some real police work tracking down perps. Not asking their jobs be made easier at everyone else's expense.
Most modern lives revolve around clock-time, so DST/summer time makes some sense at middle latitudes -- more natural light when lamps otherwise would be burnt in the early evening (less in the morning when fewer are burnt).
DST make no sense at all at lower latitudes with little change in daylight hours with the seasons. Nor at very high latitudes with extreme changes.
A bigger question is whether the benefit is worth the circadian disruption -- world-wide jetlag. This is similar to countries deciding to be on half-hour time zones -- is the benefit worth the confusion? There will always be differing values, so differing opinions. No answer unless we can set 1h jetlag = XX kWh . You can try with money as the scale, then I suspect the answer is NO DST even at middle latitudes.
The nicest thing about systemd is that it is _NOT_ sysV and it is fighting/displacing sysV-style inits. Not that it is any better, mind you.
I like BSD-style inits (run Slackware) and I enjoy the controversy in a cautious "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" way.
What conflict? I never saw any, except for strict literalists (blasphemers) who believe that G-d's "Days" necessarily are the same as ours with 1440 minutes. What if They average 3 billion of our years? Not necessarily linearly constant either. Space is not, why should time be?
The Atom tablets are below that, but do not have HDMI output. The SBCs have been there for a while (a bit more expensive), but suck more power 20W vs 1.2W. I have and use both, still like my RPis.
This looks like the electronic equivalent of haggling in a shop [bazaar]. Contrast this with the [anglo] best-price, take-it-or-leave it across multiple competitors. As a consumer, I vastly prefer the latter. As a seller I might prefer haggling (tied customers), but only if I have power when I buy (often I'm as tied).
A consumer negotiating with a seller is a grand delusion. The seller knows far more about their costs and market demand than you ever can. They spend their careers at it. All you can do is walk away, hopefully there are competitors. IMHO, this is the great different between First- and Third-World economies -- competition in the former, and very-restricted (cronyism) in the latter.
So I stay away from anything that looks like haggling (even MiR). That is my only choice.
This sounds like a tough problem -- you've thought about it, examined many angles, yet cannot find a clear winner. So time to bring out the PHB decision tool, Flip a Coin!
Seriously. You've examined all the alternatives rather thoroughly with more data & values than we can know yet cannot determine a winner. They must be evenly balanced, so a coin toss (PRNG) is as good a decision method as any other. If you insist on persistantly over-thinking this question, then devote your efforts to finding something _new_ that turns the question into a slam-dunk.
ObOnTopic: If you mention the patent, many HR types will assume you assigned it to a previous employer. They might be impressed, or they might worry their software will be contaminated/infringe this other company's IP.
First, there are the knee-jerk responses of an "Intelligence" organisation never wanting to let anything truthful be known about it, and particularly detesting FIOA requests. Traitors. Then there is the bureaucratic response of never saying anything lest you be accused of inaccuracy.
But there also is a real security concern for the agency involved -- in answering "what did you release", they burn clandestine "leakers" as stooges. I do not think Snowden was a deliberate leak, but unless proven otherwise I assume about half the leaks are plants.
I'll buy (may swtich to Linux) if it has a micro HDMI output so I can dock the thing at a real monitor (1960*1200 min). I've been looking around to tablets as desktop replacements and found relatively few x86 with HDMI out.
I've stayed with Slackware for 20 years. I've looked at others, but cannot abide SysV mess'o'symlinks init. chmod +x is about all I want or need. systemd might be slightly less bad, but it is still over-complex. I reboot my machines once a year (typically Xmas) whether they need it or not.
As Daimler AG is a German company, many employees will take a whole month off (July-August). Lots of big email (dwgs/photos) can arrive in a month. As a result of US auto-liability litigation, they probably have lawyers limiting the size of their email (&other files) to something the lawyers can digest, like 100 MB per user. Already nearly full, many accounts will lock. To save the fixup grief, just bounce everything. Problem solved.
Look folks -- nothing on the internet, least of all email, is intended to be reliable. That it often is, is no guarantee that it always is. If you don't remember to resend mail when the server is open, or your MTA doesn't follow RFCs then you have only your sloth to blame.
Probably easy to find for the DoJ. Ask jobchangers. But not necessary. Anti-Trust law is highly unusual -- the govt does not need to prove harm, and it is much closer to "guilty until proven innocent". Just ask the oilcos.
Do you mean to say Standard Oil and AT&T did not donate enough? Methinks they would have.
Some of those with jobs might have tried to leave! Most likely to escape poor supervisors.