I guarantee you in the last year/. has done at least 3 articles each on Ubuntu, Mint, Red Hat, and Gentoo (and OpenBSD and FreeBSD), and at least 1 on various others.
Ubuntu, Red Hat, FreeBSD, and Gentoo have been popular for long enough to deserve the attention. But both Arch (and Mint too) seem like upstarts. Before broadcasting every release, I think we should see more articles explaining their benefits.
Smart roads are neither necessary nor sufficient to realize driverless cars. They are unnecessary, because imaging technology is increasing at a nice clip, obviating their need. All of the applications addressed in the article could be realized with smart cars communicating with each other, rather than smart roadside sensors communicating from the street.
Further, road sensors won't be sufficient, because even assuming the cost of these smart sensors becomes relatively inexpensive, there are simply too many less traveled roads to install them on. There are many millions of miles of unpaved dirt roads, newly constructed roads, and roads that are damaged by nature. Cars will need to drive effectively without roadside sensors.
The one application I can see of roadside sensors is possibly to increase accuracy on major highways, thus increasing the max speed of the driverless cars on the road.
The Unicode consortium should have published glyphs like these as part of the effort of defining the standard.
Why did it take a separate private company to do this?
Probably because building a consortium to even define the characters is hard enough and expensive. Getting buy-in from everyone in the consortium to develop high quality glyphs for orphan languages would have reduced overall support. I agree they should have, but I don't think most company's are as generous as Google.
This is the third slashdot article on ArchLinux in the past year. I don't see this much publicity being devoted the hundreds of other Linux distros out there. Why is Slashdot giving so much play to ArchLinux? Is there anything special about it or do they just have a good PR team?
As an admin who had done a enough of java tuning i would suggest you to run more small instances behind a load balancer
I'm already running plenty of relatively large instances. Decreasing the instance size requires that I add many more instances, which create other problems. It would be nice if Java could be run efficiently on larger servers (e.g., >32GB of RAM).
Some Wonder If It Means the US Has Given Away The Internet
There is a lot of hyperbole here, the U.S. is clearly not giving up the internet, but they are giving up some power, and we can expect others will want to fill that
vacuum, which is a legitimate concern. Cruz's rhetoric is unfortunate, because it masks a real issue in political garbage.
Nothing is preventing you or anyone else from setting up a DNS server, the only challenge would be convincing others to use it, if that was your goal.
And what does it take to convince a large number of people to use the DNS system? Usually it requires a trustworthy institution that has the backing of many stakeholders. An organization like ICANN. The idea people can setup large DNS system to actually compete with ICANN's DNS without some type of government backing is unrealistic.
I have a vision of the future where this is actually going to bring us together as "a people"... And who will defend against abuses of power now that they're equally divided? The netizens. The people of the Internet. The hackers. I'm honestly looking forward to seeing how this pans out.
I wish your utopian view of reality will win out, but given that it hasn't for all of human history, I'm pretty skeptical.
More likely, existing large powers (China, Russia, and others) will see this as an opportunity to grab more influence, and devote far more resources than any netizens are capable of spending to bend ICANN and the DNS system to their will.
The DNS system is not the internet. The Internet works just fine without it- except for those pesky IP4 and IP6 numbers.
Virtually every user of the internet only knows how to use the internet through DNS. These users will not know how to use the internet with DNS. A huge amount of software has hard programmed DNS values rather than IP addresses. This software will fail without DNS. It is true that DNS is not the internet, but without DNS, you have no internet.
I wish they'd spend more time on improving their garbage collectors than compilation time. It can take 30 seconds to a minute to garbage collect 25GB of memory, a huge problem for servers. The G1 garbage collector (G1GC) is promising, but it's still far to buggy to use in production. If this GC issue does not get fixed, I could see it incentivizing server software to switch to C/C++.
They don't seem to know who did it, but they already know that the hackers were state sponsored? That seems really fishy.
It definitely seemed fishy. But I gave them the benefit of the doubt simply because it is a very serious allegation, one that a sophisticated company would not throw around too quickly. There should be some form of punishment (monetary, public shaming) if it turns out to be baseless.
If it's true that Yahoo had no evidence to suggest a state sponsored attack, then Marissa Meyers should issue an official apology. They are inserting themselves in geopolitics purely for their own financial gain. Sickening.
Statistically insignificant. Tesla stats will only matter when tens of thousands, if not millions, of trips have been made under autopilot.
The problem with waiting around for better data is that you're asking consumers to be the guinea pigs for an untested and potentially dangerous device. Through their overreaching marketing, and their lack of transparency, most would not trust Tesla with their life, and those that do, do so at their peril.
A safer (albeit slower) approach would be for Tesla to demonstrate safety through public testing data.
One of the major potential uses for this technology is the ability to scan and OCR books. The current process requires either cutting the binding and then scanning each page one by one, or using error prone page flipping machines. Both are slow and expensive to operate. With this tech, one could conceivably take a single 3D image, and capture all of the pages in the book without ever opening it.
They don't even need to change rankings. Simply sending a polite reminder email to hosts with a discriminatory track record will probably have a significant effect. Most of this type of discrimination is likely implicit.
Does the cloud provider have IPv6 support? If not, I look elsewhere. Not necessarily because I need IPv6 support now, but because i don't want to be using a cloud that is transitioning to supporting IPv6. That has the possibility of being very disruptive.
There are so many factors in determining a cloud provider, solely choosing one based on IPv6 is silly. Who cares if it'll be disruptive in the future if you can't get to where you want at all.
here is the rub: Hollywood depiction of women is, in the aggregate, whatever the fuck the movie watching wants it be
Not at all, you're greatly underestimating the influence of the major movie studios. Americans fork out their $12 tickets and watch pretty much whatever Hollywood shoves down their throat. Assuming Hollywood creates movies based on a democratic and unbiased worldview of the aggregate U.S. viewing public is incredibly naive.
Gawker's behavior bankrupted Gawker, end of story. Peter Thiel picked up the legal bills so that the person they wronged could afford to sue them.
This is only one of the cases we've heard about. I would not be surprised if Thiel picked up legal bills for every lawsuit against Gawker. Put together, it's a full-on campaign to use the legal system to destroy a company for a personal vendetta. If Thiel didn't like Gawker, he should have sued them.
startup wanted to cash in on this. Lawsuits as a Service! Can't wait until this extends to software patent litigation.
This idea is nothing new, and in fact, there are many companies out there that are already doing the same for patent litigation. Patent litigation was really where litigation funding hit the mainstream. This is a neat company, but the ideas and tech are all old.
This list is interesting, but hardly anything new. I'd like to see a list of tech millionaires and billionaires that lost the most amount of money. That is, take their peak net worth and subtract their current net worth, and rank the decline. I'm sure Elizabeth Holmes would make that list.
It's been almost 24 hours before the Donald has said anything insane and he is due. This is perfect for his famously ambiguous suggestions: "She's a very powerful women, and bad things happen when people cross her, that poor DNC staffer got shot twice in the back."
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I guarantee you in the last year /. has done at least 3 articles each on Ubuntu, Mint, Red Hat, and Gentoo (and OpenBSD and FreeBSD), and at least 1 on various others.
Ubuntu, Red Hat, FreeBSD, and Gentoo have been popular for long enough to deserve the attention. But both Arch (and Mint too) seem like upstarts. Before broadcasting every release, I think we should see more articles explaining their benefits.
Smart roads are neither necessary nor sufficient to realize driverless cars. They are unnecessary, because imaging technology is increasing at a nice clip, obviating their need. All of the applications addressed in the article could be realized with smart cars communicating with each other, rather than smart roadside sensors communicating from the street.
Further, road sensors won't be sufficient, because even assuming the cost of these smart sensors becomes relatively inexpensive, there are simply too many less traveled roads to install them on. There are many millions of miles of unpaved dirt roads, newly constructed roads, and roads that are damaged by nature. Cars will need to drive effectively without roadside sensors.
The one application I can see of roadside sensors is possibly to increase accuracy on major highways, thus increasing the max speed of the driverless cars on the road.
The Unicode consortium should have published glyphs like these as part of the effort of defining the standard.
Why did it take a separate private company to do this?
Probably because building a consortium to even define the characters is hard enough and expensive. Getting buy-in from everyone in the consortium to develop high quality glyphs for orphan languages would have reduced overall support. I agree they should have, but I don't think most company's are as generous as Google.
This is the third slashdot article on ArchLinux in the past year. I don't see this much publicity being devoted the hundreds of other Linux distros out there. Why is Slashdot giving so much play to ArchLinux? Is there anything special about it or do they just have a good PR team?
I don't think it's for financial gain. Rather an attempt to gain sympathy or to hide their incompetence.
It's a corporation. Everything they do is for financial gain.
As an admin who had done a enough of java tuning i would suggest you to run more small instances behind a load balancer
I'm already running plenty of relatively large instances. Decreasing the instance size requires that I add many more instances, which create other problems. It would be nice if Java could be run efficiently on larger servers (e.g., >32GB of RAM).
Some Wonder If It Means the US Has Given Away The Internet
There is a lot of hyperbole here, the U.S. is clearly not giving up the internet, but they are giving up some power, and we can expect others will want to fill that vacuum, which is a legitimate concern. Cruz's rhetoric is unfortunate, because it masks a real issue in political garbage.
Nothing is preventing you or anyone else from setting up a DNS server, the only challenge would be convincing others to use it, if that was your goal.
And what does it take to convince a large number of people to use the DNS system? Usually it requires a trustworthy institution that has the backing of many stakeholders. An organization like ICANN. The idea people can setup large DNS system to actually compete with ICANN's DNS without some type of government backing is unrealistic.
I have a vision of the future where this is actually going to bring us together as "a people"... And who will defend against abuses of power now that they're equally divided? The netizens. The people of the Internet. The hackers. I'm honestly looking forward to seeing how this pans out.
I wish your utopian view of reality will win out, but given that it hasn't for all of human history, I'm pretty skeptical.
More likely, existing large powers (China, Russia, and others) will see this as an opportunity to grab more influence, and devote far more resources than any netizens are capable of spending to bend ICANN and the DNS system to their will.
The DNS system is not the internet. The Internet works just fine without it- except for those pesky IP4 and IP6 numbers.
Virtually every user of the internet only knows how to use the internet through DNS. These users will not know how to use the internet with DNS. A huge amount of software has hard programmed DNS values rather than IP addresses. This software will fail without DNS. It is true that DNS is not the internet, but without DNS, you have no internet.
I wish they'd spend more time on improving their garbage collectors than compilation time. It can take 30 seconds to a minute to garbage collect 25GB of memory, a huge problem for servers. The G1 garbage collector (G1GC) is promising, but it's still far to buggy to use in production. If this GC issue does not get fixed, I could see it incentivizing server software to switch to C/C++.
They don't seem to know who did it, but they already know that the hackers were state sponsored? That seems really fishy.
It definitely seemed fishy. But I gave them the benefit of the doubt simply because it is a very serious allegation, one that a sophisticated company would not throw around too quickly. There should be some form of punishment (monetary, public shaming) if it turns out to be baseless.
If it's true that Yahoo had no evidence to suggest a state sponsored attack, then Marissa Meyers should issue an official apology. They are inserting themselves in geopolitics purely for their own financial gain. Sickening.
Statistically insignificant. Tesla stats will only matter when tens of thousands, if not millions, of trips have been made under autopilot.
The problem with waiting around for better data is that you're asking consumers to be the guinea pigs for an untested and potentially dangerous device. Through their overreaching marketing, and their lack of transparency, most would not trust Tesla with their life, and those that do, do so at their peril. A safer (albeit slower) approach would be for Tesla to demonstrate safety through public testing data.
One of the major potential uses for this technology is the ability to scan and OCR books. The current process requires either cutting the binding and then scanning each page one by one, or using error prone page flipping machines. Both are slow and expensive to operate. With this tech, one could conceivably take a single 3D image, and capture all of the pages in the book without ever opening it.
Why are both the three first and best comments on this post done anonymously? Whoever you are, this is gold, speak your mind.
They don't even need to change rankings. Simply sending a polite reminder email to hosts with a discriminatory track record will probably have a significant effect. Most of this type of discrimination is likely implicit.
Does the cloud provider have IPv6 support? If not, I look elsewhere. Not necessarily because I need IPv6 support now, but because i don't want to be using a cloud that is transitioning to supporting IPv6. That has the possibility of being very disruptive.
There are so many factors in determining a cloud provider, solely choosing one based on IPv6 is silly. Who cares if it'll be disruptive in the future if you can't get to where you want at all.
Sue the U.S. postal service!!! Terrorists can send hidden messages to each other, across the border and within our cities and towns!!!
here is the rub: Hollywood depiction of women is, in the aggregate, whatever the fuck the movie watching wants it be
Not at all, you're greatly underestimating the influence of the major movie studios. Americans fork out their $12 tickets and watch pretty much whatever Hollywood shoves down their throat. Assuming Hollywood creates movies based on a democratic and unbiased worldview of the aggregate U.S. viewing public is incredibly naive.
Gawker's behavior bankrupted Gawker, end of story. Peter Thiel picked up the legal bills so that the person they wronged could afford to sue them.
This is only one of the cases we've heard about. I would not be surprised if Thiel picked up legal bills for every lawsuit against Gawker. Put together, it's a full-on campaign to use the legal system to destroy a company for a personal vendetta. If Thiel didn't like Gawker, he should have sued them.
startup wanted to cash in on this. Lawsuits as a Service! Can't wait until this extends to software patent litigation.
This idea is nothing new, and in fact, there are many companies out there that are already doing the same for patent litigation. Patent litigation was really where litigation funding hit the mainstream. This is a neat company, but the ideas and tech are all old.
"But now I feel like this is extremely dangerous.
No fucking shit, it always was.
But Elon promised us it was safer than human driving!
This list is interesting, but hardly anything new. I'd like to see a list of tech millionaires and billionaires that lost the most amount of money. That is, take their peak net worth and subtract their current net worth, and rank the decline. I'm sure Elizabeth Holmes would make that list.
It's been almost 24 hours before the Donald has said anything insane and he is due. This is perfect for his famously ambiguous suggestions: "She's a very powerful women, and bad things happen when people cross her, that poor DNC staffer got shot twice in the back."