Why only the Postal Service and no other agency? To make sure Fedex profits stayed high?
Yes, basically. They did it so that in the event that the USPS fails to meet the unfair obligation the GOP can point to it and cry about how the government fails at all things and that we should put our trust in private industry.
Up until this was forced on them the USPS was actually doing fine, fulfilling its constitutional obligation.
Ah yes, the old Gold is God argument. I fail to see how perpetually binding the US Dollar to a limited supply of gold would have avoided inflation.
This is the same reason trickle-down economics doesn't work anymore - tax cuts at the top don't flow to the workers, they flow to Wall Street
Trickle-down economics never worked. It was never intended to work. It was a scam to convince people that letting the richest avoid even more taxes would result in more wealth being shared, but they never bothered to explain how.
I agree. Every week Slashdot should randomly pick one topic for which all stories are ignored. No exceptions. This way, everyone who dislikes a particular topic can be satisfied knowing that at some point, for some week, those stories will be ignored because they don't like them.
It helps to provide context to what you're talking about.
PDF from mid last year on performance tools, page 26 documents the LWP issues with the kernel.
It looks like integration with the kernel and getting upstream is a task for AMD. So it is unfortunate, but entirely AMD's problem as an Intel variant is already in kernel apparently.
Apparently most Slashdotters are now incapable of using a browser themselves and lack basic reasoning skills, thus are incapable of discovering this information for themselves.
So punishing the honest while doing nothing against the dishonest.
How much work are you willing to do to watch that movie for free where you can pay a $10 a month subscription or rent it for $2.00?
For those willing, all they have to do is wait. Eventually it will be released sans DRM.
Is it worth trying different patches made by people of questionable ethics, perhaps having to rebuild you OS every once in a while until you find the good patch.
If I'm forced to use an OS I cannot trust, then probably.
Nice selection of boards there, you might get something built in the last decade. Bonus points if you get something before AMD exits the x86 business or closes up shop.
Not that UEFI is the problem, it's more that Secure Boot with no flexibility is the problem. This isn't an issue on x86.
You'll see the FUD crew out in full force about it. My favourite is that it is a "walled garden" and you can only run apps from the MS store. That is, of course, completely false. It runs anything Windows 7 ran. However the point isn't to spread information, but FUD to try and scare people away from using it.
Only on the Desktop, which Microsoft wants to deprecate and has made secondary to the Modern environment, which is absolutely a walled garden on both ARM and x86.
Windows 8 is a weird hybrid, there is a walled garden but only on the "Modern" side.
Which, incidentally is the only place 3rd party software is available for Windows RT, and where Microsoft wants all consumer app development to move to.
I also realize that the code signing requirement is one reason Android has malware and iPhone doesn't
Android has malware because Google is lax in screening software in their store and because Chinese stores (where most of the malware is) don't screen at all. Code signing doesn't, fundamentally, protect you unless there's some enforcement. And in the end, malware doesn't just "appear" on your phone, you have to put it there.
But hey, at least Apple simply gives you no choice.
Android needs to be rearchitected so that carriers provide drivers for the hardware, while Google takes full responsibility for updates to the OS.
This belies ignorance of the problem. The carriers do nothing but shove crap on the devices. Drivers are standard Linux drivers unless they have a userspace blob. The problem is that the kernel drivers never get pushed upstream so they rot as the kernel moves on.
And due to the way cellular service works in the US, carriers and handset manufacturers have a perverse incentive to not update old phones.
Android needs to be rearchitected so that carriers provide drivers for the hardware, while Google takes full responsibility for updates to the OS. This approach has been working with Windows for decades.
Well, it worked sometimes. Other times your Windows install would break. The only real way to get around this would be to eliminate user space blobs, eliminate the need for device-specific board files, and for the chip and handset vendors to push everything upstream and for Google to stop using so much custom shit in the kernel (nothing they've pushed upstream has been accepted into mainline yet and a lot probably won't.)
One might suggest that since the existence of belief and religion does not contribute to reproduction or food gathering directly, that it must be an adaptation for some purpose.
It isn't an adaptation. It's a side effect of our brains, which are our ultimate adaptation. Our brains make us curious and desire for explanations of things, and religion is a nice low-energy ("god did it and he loves you / god did it now you'd better fear him") bit to buy into.
Otherwise, belief should have been dispensed with easily by simple selection of those who do not believe as being better able to use their energy for reproduction.
At best religion is an offshoot of tribalism, which actually confers survival advantages, and attempts to explain the world in the face of limited actual knowledge. A given tribe has its explanation of how the world exists is true as far as they are concerned, and if you disagree then you will be killed.
Given sufficient knowledge, neither religion nor the concept of God are necessary. As society progresses even tribalism will fall.
I wish people would stop saying this. Rather, it should be "Power users can use something other than iOS devices." Apple does not want power users, particularly not those who would jailbreak as evidence by their recent push to have jailbreaking covered by the DMCA (and their success on Tablets) and increasingly aggressive efforts towards total lock down.
Jailbreaking is not a solution. The solution is using products from a vendor that doesn't treat you like a leper.
I'm interested, though I'll probably get what I want when Jolla releases their handsets later this year. I'm completely uninterested in platforms like iOS that serve Apple more than the user, or Android where entire wheels are reinvented for the sole purpose of catering to the laze and malfeasance in pretty much every handset vendor and US carrier today.
If only people didn't do so every time a comment of his is brought up for the sole purpose of derailing any actual useful discussion. It's done deliberately to drive discussion into the ground and ensure that a possibly useful conversation does not take place simply because there are people far more concerned about spreading hatred of the man than doing something useful.
he's a spokesman and figurehead, which makes every single one of the points above completely relevant.
Only in the context of discussing him in his role of "spokesman" and "figurehead." Not "any time RMS is ever mentioned."
Slashdot Mirror
Ah, I love idiotic replies from anonymous cowards.
No, it has to do with the GOP being incapable of leaving well enough alone when there's money not being routed to the richest in the nation.
Ah, so you're a GOP mouthpiece I see.
So the USPS is essentially getting royalties for this, with Wahconah Group making the venture here.
Probably not much.
No, it sounds like the USPS is looking for any avenue it can to raise revenues to survive the GOP's attempt to destroy the agency.
Yes, basically. They did it so that in the event that the USPS fails to meet the unfair obligation the GOP can point to it and cry about how the government fails at all things and that we should put our trust in private industry.
Up until this was forced on them the USPS was actually doing fine, fulfilling its constitutional obligation.
Ah yes, the old Gold is God argument. I fail to see how perpetually binding the US Dollar to a limited supply of gold would have avoided inflation.
Trickle-down economics never worked. It was never intended to work. It was a scam to convince people that letting the richest avoid even more taxes would result in more wealth being shared, but they never bothered to explain how.
I agree. Every week Slashdot should randomly pick one topic for which all stories are ignored. No exceptions. This way, everyone who dislikes a particular topic can be satisfied knowing that at some point, for some week, those stories will be ignored because they don't like them.
It won't do a damn bit of good, but what the hey!
It helps to provide context to what you're talking about.
PDF from mid last year on performance tools, page 26 documents the LWP issues with the kernel.
It looks like integration with the kernel and getting upstream is a task for AMD. So it is unfortunate, but entirely AMD's problem as an Intel variant is already in kernel apparently.
Apparently most Slashdotters are now incapable of using a browser themselves and lack basic reasoning skills, thus are incapable of discovering this information for themselves.
All Socket 1155 boards have on board video because it's integrated into the CPU.
Which will work up until Mint needs funds to continue its existence.
So punishing the honest while doing nothing against the dishonest.
For those willing, all they have to do is wait. Eventually it will be released sans DRM.
If I'm forced to use an OS I cannot trust, then probably.
Nice selection of boards there, you might get something built in the last decade. Bonus points if you get something before AMD exits the x86 business or closes up shop.
Not that UEFI is the problem, it's more that Secure Boot with no flexibility is the problem. This isn't an issue on x86.
Only on the Desktop, which Microsoft wants to deprecate and has made secondary to the Modern environment, which is absolutely a walled garden on both ARM and x86.
Windows 8 is a weird hybrid, there is a walled garden but only on the "Modern" side.
Which, incidentally is the only place 3rd party software is available for Windows RT, and where Microsoft wants all consumer app development to move to.
This does nothing for ARM machines. Microsoft won't sign anything other than their own software to boot on certified Windows RT devices.
It can't be promptless. The only ones that can be promptless are ones that assert a check on the kernel being loaded.
Android has malware because Google is lax in screening software in their store and because Chinese stores (where most of the malware is) don't screen at all. Code signing doesn't, fundamentally, protect you unless there's some enforcement. And in the end, malware doesn't just "appear" on your phone, you have to put it there.
But hey, at least Apple simply gives you no choice.
This belies ignorance of the problem. The carriers do nothing but shove crap on the devices. Drivers are standard Linux drivers unless they have a userspace blob. The problem is that the kernel drivers never get pushed upstream so they rot as the kernel moves on.
And due to the way cellular service works in the US, carriers and handset manufacturers have a perverse incentive to not update old phones.
Well, it worked sometimes. Other times your Windows install would break. The only real way to get around this would be to eliminate user space blobs, eliminate the need for device-specific board files, and for the chip and handset vendors to push everything upstream and for Google to stop using so much custom shit in the kernel (nothing they've pushed upstream has been accepted into mainline yet and a lot probably won't.)
It isn't an adaptation. It's a side effect of our brains, which are our ultimate adaptation. Our brains make us curious and desire for explanations of things, and religion is a nice low-energy ("god did it and he loves you / god did it now you'd better fear him") bit to buy into.
At best religion is an offshoot of tribalism, which actually confers survival advantages, and attempts to explain the world in the face of limited actual knowledge. A given tribe has its explanation of how the world exists is true as far as they are concerned, and if you disagree then you will be killed.
Given sufficient knowledge, neither religion nor the concept of God are necessary. As society progresses even tribalism will fall.
So stick to your iPhone. Let us have our choice.
I wish people would stop saying this. Rather, it should be "Power users can use something other than iOS devices." Apple does not want power users, particularly not those who would jailbreak as evidence by their recent push to have jailbreaking covered by the DMCA (and their success on Tablets) and increasingly aggressive efforts towards total lock down.
Jailbreaking is not a solution. The solution is using products from a vendor that doesn't treat you like a leper.
I'm interested, though I'll probably get what I want when Jolla releases their handsets later this year. I'm completely uninterested in platforms like iOS that serve Apple more than the user, or Android where entire wheels are reinvented for the sole purpose of catering to the laze and malfeasance in pretty much every handset vendor and US carrier today.
If only people didn't do so every time a comment of his is brought up for the sole purpose of derailing any actual useful discussion. It's done deliberately to drive discussion into the ground and ensure that a possibly useful conversation does not take place simply because there are people far more concerned about spreading hatred of the man than doing something useful.
Only in the context of discussing him in his role of "spokesman" and "figurehead." Not "any time RMS is ever mentioned."
WinRT is already present in Windows 8. Windows RT is the confusingly named ARM build of Windows 8.