There were no on-duty police officers involved...just off-duty officers and government contractors, illegally distrupting traffic, illegally collecting passive sensor data, even when consent was declined, and collecting a bunch of other information if you were willing to give it for free (the breathalyzer) or willing to be paid $10, $50, or $60, depending on how intrusive you let them get in exchange for money.
Everything about it was illegal; this was not a standard DUI checkpoint which contractors "embraced and extended", this was private citizens pulling over private citizens and collecting at least a minimum amount of data without consent.
This is a civil rights violation, and for each count where consent was not given after the fact, worth 20 years in a Federal prison.
Begging the question "aren't current nukes sufficiently accurate"?
Depends on the application and the size of the nuke. One of the reasons that Soviet missiles and warheads were so big was because thy lacked accuracy. Against a hardened target that can be important even for a nuke. More accurate nukes can be smaller. Smaller nukes let your missiles carry more of them, and they can be fitted on smaller missiles.
Unfortunately for your argument, both S.A.L.T. and S.T.A.R.T. sought to limit deployment of MIRV'ed ICBMs because the Soviets had more of them than the U.S..
For High School and early College degrees, knowing the basics helps later work when working with the more advanced tools. After learning (and being able to know) the basics then move into the more advanced tools. Both are needed. Generally when working on complex systems it's easiest to understand when it can be broken down into clear, demarcated segments. Overall it's complex but each individual segment is made up of basic understandable ideas. That way you don't need to look at everything all at once. This is the way much of networking works using the ISO reference model. Knowing the basics helps when you need to fall back
It's the difference between knowledge and understanding. Our society often fails to value the latter, since it is not immediately useful in the short-term and requires a wise long-view to appreciate. This is very much to our collective detriment.
This.
And with that in mind, I'd suggest a #2 pencil.
If that's too much work, I;d suggest a slide rule.
I can't shake off a feeling that the law enforcement and friendly news sources are using "Anonymous" as a boogeyman. When I see "Anonymous collective has hacked their systems", I read "Their systems were hacked. FBI has no leads". The law enforcement has finally found a perfect line for every situation where they demonstrate incompetence, since "anonymous" turns into "Anonymous" so easily.
Anonymous should just announce a name change "We who were formerly Anonymous announce that we are officially changing out name to 'The Boogeyman', and are claiming credit for X, Y, Z that we have been accused of perpetrating" kinda thing.
Then all the news reports get corrected to "Security Company Q attacked by The Boogeyman".
The War on the Internet is as much about creating an environment of fear that will justify increased spending, as it is cracking down on the young smart kids who are the real threat to the corporate para-State.
Just like the 'war on drugs' is. And people get in line willingly to support it.
The war on drugs doesn't crack down on young smart kids, it cracks down on kids who spend all day on the couch eating Cheetos and watching T.V. because they can't muster up the energy to play Call of Duty after the last bong hit, and then they head out to White Castle at two AM because they saw Derek and Kumar do it in a movie, and, besides, they have the munchies and there's no food left in the house. Neil Patrick Harris on the unicorn is optional at that point.
Typically, the war on the Internet also only cracks down on the young smart kids who have overstayed their welcome on the wrong side of the "you are no longer a minor" line, or have been sufficiently annoying to move that line past the "you will be tried as an adult" boundary.
Most people dont realize but since we started putting corn in our fuel, thousands and thousands of older cars have gone up into flames since it dissolves the OEM fuel lines after a relatively short time.
...at which point, you drive a newer car instead of your classic card, and since the newer car was likely manufactured after 1981, it has a catalytic converter and an Oxygen sensor, and doesn't need the ethanol (but won't die from it, either).
There is a lot of debate over weather or not its such a great thing to just give food away to poor countries.
I'm going to make an educated guess as to which side of this argument the starving people come down on...
Its often argued that its a better idea to support the local farmers as much as possible and only giving away food in famine situations.
Do you mean by printing tractor parts on your 3D printer, and sending them off to poor countries farmers who need tractor parts, or do you mean by marching around in a large oval carrying a placard outside G5/G8/G12 meetings and/or Monsanto headquarters.
Hint: There is a big difference between being supportive vs. providing support
Here we have prison to punish people. It doesn't exist as a means to control risk by controlling dangerous people. We've collectively decided that we should put people in cells(and let them be raped) like it's telling 5 year olds to stand in the corner.
Prison is not primarily to punish. I know when someone is a victim of a crime, they like to believe it exists to punish criminals. That's not what is intended.
The intent of any punitive action by a court is to discourage an activity in such a way that the rest of society doesn't engage in the behaviour.
Think about it: do the police arrive before a crime and prevent it, or do they show up afterwards? Do we penalize manslaughter to a lesser degree because we think the victim is any less dead than if it had been second or first degree murder instead? Punishment is clearly intended to send a message to the rest of society, not make the victim or the victims families feel better about themselves.
The message is clearly intended as "Don't do this; if you get caught, this is what will happen to you, and you should fear that penalty enough that you don't engage in the proscribed behaviour". We tend to lose sight of this because of cases that drag on for years, rather than having the penalty assessed immediately; delayed punishment = delayed threat. But until Tom Cruise starts showing up at your house to prevent murders which you are about to commit, in no way is the system about punishing criminals.
These days, all it takes to shake up the whole publishing industry is to be successful. The whole industry is in sharp decline and everyone knows it, especially those within.
I'd like to think they have a chance. Their goals are certainly noble. But I wouldn't be too optimistic.
That's a $3.3M / year gross income, assuming all subscribers are paying for a full year, and that they are paying the full subscription price.
It's really doubtful that an indiegogo crowdfunding is going to raise a lot of money, even with an advertisement on slashdot, given that they do not follow the kickstarter model, and whatever you donate, regardless of whether or not they hit their goals, they get to keep.
What it would take to be successful, at least if you want my $, is actual editing. If you include the whole industry, which this summary tries to do, you'd also have to charge less for the much less desirable electronic copies, and you'd still need to actually hire editors, so that I don't end up having to do spelling and grammar correction as I read along, and I don't run into things like huge continuity holes. It'd also be nice if, when a line ends with "the", the next line doesn't begin with "the" as well. Distinguishing "lose" and "loose" from each other, and "to" / "two" / "too" and "principle" / "principal" and "there" / "they're" / "their" would just be a fantastic bonus.
Most electronic copy these days is crap, and most hard copy, where they've decided that the electronic copy sold well enough that it's worth making a paper publishing run... typically doesn't get editing, and is also crap, since it's just sending the bad electronic copy off to a printer.
Yeah, the publishing industry is tanking, but there are some really obvious reasons that's so, and if publishers would address them, then their businesses wouldn't be tanking.
No. The creators of C were not terribly concerned about the extra compilation time - they were concerned about generating efficient code and representing it efficiently in the source.
Yes. But what made C such a universal language was the incidental fact that this made the compiler easier to implement.
Except the first machines C ran on didn't have an "add unity to memory" instruction unless you got out the wire wrap tools and made one, so this excuse doesn't work.
The real reason is that variables and arrays actually take up memory, and if you understand this fact, then you will naturally gravitate toward using a 0 offset, whereas if you don't, then you probably learned programming using a language that hides the underlying memory allocations from you. Which is why anyone who wants to claim they are a programmer should learn at least one assembly language, so that they understand that memory is just that free stuff, and that you actually have to allocate backing store for variables.
....It's CDDL licensed, as Solaris was, and the model is "managed community", the way Solaris was....
I can tell you that Oracle absolutely hates CDDL licensing. It was Mission #1 to abolish all CDDL licensing after absorbing Sun.
No doubt; and when IBM bought the startup I worked for around 2000, the missions was "abolish the GPL'ed code wherever it touches on IBM patents", which basically meant yanking the SQUID code out of the InterJet and replacing it with much dumber caching software so that IBM wasn't accidently granting a royalty free license to use those six patents.
My point on the CDDL is that it has as an emergent property centralized control of the community with the company originally licensing out the code, since all contributions back end up with an assignment of rights.
I'm going to guess that Oracle was just as unhappy with the Linux distribution they inherited, and with the GPL on the MySQL code, but at least in those cases, forking was possible, whereas the CDDL pretty much makes it difficult to effectively fork, as the OpenIndiana / Illumos folks have discovered.
Granted I didn't consider all aspects when I posted that... things could be much better now than they are, though. Why do the majority of hybrids on the market get shittier gas mileage than a 1990 Metro? Don't tell me it's because they're heavier; they're hybrids, the engine isn't even running most of the time!
For my 1991 Geo Metro convertible, it's the reformulated gas in California that drops a little over 20% of my gas mileage. If I drive it to Arizona or Utah, and fill up on "Winter gas", which is not reformulated, then my mileage goes back up over 60MPG. For cars manufactured since 1981, the reformulated gas does nothing but lower your gas mileage, which is a pretty useless thing, since cars manufactured in 1981 and later have oxygen sensors, and don't burn any cleaner with reformulated gas. We're basically all getting crappy gas so Jay Leno can run his classic cars at lower pollution levels.
I have a friend who is an "eco modder" - he modifies vehicles to improve their gas mileage. His modified Honda CRX HF from the early 1990's get around 106 MPG; without the mods, stock from the dealer, and without reformulated gas, they typically got around 72MPG, so with the reformulated California gas, he's sitting at about double the gas mileage.
U.S. Car manufacturers ended up buying a bunch of CRX HF's because they couldn't compete in MPG, and then they figured out a crash test that they could throw at them that they couldn't pass. Rather than paying to destroy 50 or so cars after manufacturing changes to pass the test, Honda just quit importing them into the U.S.. They continued to sell in Japan and other markets for a while
It claims performance and trackpad issues, but the reason for the halted sales according the article it claims to be a summary of was the 500ma microUSB charger, which has thermal issues in the charger itself. This is kind of expected for a first attempt at an Apple-style higher amperage charger that attempts to negotiate a quicker charge rate, the same way Apple chargers do a similar thing for faster iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch device charging.
It's likely that the suggested workaround is going to cause the charging circuit not to trip, which would mean that you would need to charge with the device powered down, since you might not be able to utilize it at full power draw and still be able to charge, as you could with the factory charger. Mopst likely the overheating only happens using the factor charger while also drawing current due to the device being on.
I saw some comments on the Touchpad in various articles, which is kind of expected if you don't do the necessary addition work for the laptop EC to get the better support for the touchpad and keyboard matrix. There's actually a document describing what vendors need to do to get this right, and it generally takes either in-house engineering or at least a phone call before a vendor actually "gets it". I worked with both Samsung and Acer to make sure their Chromebook trackpads did "the right thing", based on their EC units behaviour; I'm not sure who handled it for the HP unit, but it's kinda of a well known issue when it comes to HP or Toshiba laptops with lower end touchpads, unless you work around the various issues in software.
It's CDDL licensed, as Solaris was, and the model is "managed community", the way Solaris was -- what guarantee did any contributor possibly have that Oracle wouldn't do to it exactly what they've done to the Open Source Solaris community? As in, *exactly* what they just announced?
The problem with "managed community" is that the "manager" can yank the rug out from under you at any time.
And who exactly thinks it's fun to work on Java based application server implementations anyway?
If the answer is "no", then you are stuck with your home-grown stuff. Vendors intentionally introduce incompatibilities to lock you into using only them, so you aren't going to find some project that provides a HAL, or at least not one that will live through the next software update from one of your vendors.
You should also be aware (I'm sure you are, if you understand the dynamics of your scripts, but some reading this probably aren't) that some systems won't negotiate a KVM style console unless they are selected active in the KVM prior to boot, so there's an interaction between your power management sequencing and the virtual serial and real serial, and that varies from vendor to vendor and software update to software update.
If you are also using Real KVM(tm) style virtual video consoles, you're probably already aware that Linux and most other Open Source OS's fail to negotiate EDID information correctly, unless you use the closed source video drivers, unless they are selected as the active input on the virtual/real video display device, since those implementations are usually not multithreaded, and so if you have 4 HDMI inputs, and #2 is selected, and #4 is where the device is that comes up and does it's one-time negotiation (this is what's broken about the OS drivers: they should retry periodically until they get a response, then echo up the response to the video driver, which if it's in X/Wayland in user space, it's not going to happen, since it only happens at startup) you are SOL. So your scripts probably have that knowledge, too. Not that it'll do you any good if you have a Linux box on the second input on a physical Samsung monitor, mind you, as they automatically switch away from inactive inputs, and default tho the first input if there are none active.
So good luck with your ask, unless you are willing to start your own project, and are willing to push to get UEFI, u-boot, Linux/BSD video drivers, and other things fixed as part of the project overhead.
but it benefits Tony Abbot's opponents to find ways to undermine
His opponents are too busy arguing with each other about how they lost to undermine anything. Pull your head in and just pay attention to how the plans were shambolic back of the envelope bullshit that they will fail with no help once they make contact with reality.
Oh, that's pretty obvious; it would take a huge amount of payola, buying the hulks for new prices, etc., in order to get the people selling them to put economic pressure on their own government such that Indonesia will happily swallow the refugee problem as their own. It's seriously against their own best interests do the deal, rather than passing on the problem to the next guy, so no deal will happen without overcoming the graft threshold.
Meanwhile, Snowden is a pretty good scapegoat for not doing it, since it curries favor with the U.S. for everyone involved.
It should be noted that 'people smuggling' isn't related to slavery; it's the politicised term for the people who help refugees get to Autralia. The efforts to stop people smugglers are about the current Australian government's (xenophobic) anti-refugee policies; they're the result of domestic politics, not a cooperative effort to stop human trafficking.
It's not actually xenophobia when you attempt to enforce your national borders.
The situation between Indonesia and Australia is similar to the situation between Mexico and the U.S., where the Mexican government in some cases actually busses illegals to the U.S. border in order to aid their illegal immigartion into the U.S.. While most illegals are economic refugees, the bussing mostly involved "undesirables" in Mexico, which included Mexican criminals, but more frequently were refugees from Guatamala and El Salvador, which Mexico preferred to make "not their problem". PBS did a documentary on this a while back:
The "cooperation" being negotiated in this case is primarily dealing with people using Indonesia as a transit point, and less so export of Indonesian "bad apples", just as with the U.S. (although Indonesia will happily export locally grown Al Qaeda to get rid of them). A significant number of these come from the Middle East, including a large portion of them from Iraq, and to a lesser extent, Lebanon. Here are some examples:
One of the agreements being negotiated has been buying unused boats which could be made sufficiently seaworthy to get from Indonesia to Australia:
http://qz.com/118198/australias-election-frontrunner-thinks-buying-broken-indonesian-boats-will-stave-off-asylum-seekers/...but it benefits Tony Abbot's opponents to find ways to undermine that plan as much as possible, and it benefits Indonesian politicians to be complicit in that, and seize on any excuse, lest the illegal immigrant refugees end up stuck in Indonesia instead (Indonesia doesn't want them either). So at this point, it's largely an argument between the mostly empty regions of Australia and the more densely populated regions (analogous to the red state/blue state U.S. division that had Arizona enforcing immigration laws that the U.S. federal government would not).
Batch conversion with no screen output is not supported, which many people want so that they can provide screen readers for things like forms documents that are required on state and federal forms documents which are flagged as "no edit", which makes them non-compliant with the Americans with Disability Act (ADA).
All the primary sources which would let us know about this are behind paywalls, so even when you post them on slashdot, nobody can read the freaking things, so it doesn't matter...
The problem this has always had in the past is that what people want to pay for is generally not actually a bug, it's editorial control over some aspect of the product which they dislike. This may or may not have an impact on "fitness for purpose" of the person who is willing to supply the "bribe".
A good example of this is the lack of Cairo back end rendering support in xpdf, which will only get included over the primary maintainers dead body, according to at least 3 GNATS database bug reports by third parties who would desperately like to see Cairo support, and have even provided code to implement it.
Only they are not SO desperate for this support that they are willing to fork the project and shoulder the same burdens shouldered by the current maintainer. So it seems they are willing to pay a "bribe", it's just not a sufficient one for them to get their way. And so it remain unsupported.
I really don't see this site going any farther than the half dozen sites that have tried the same thing in the past, and also failed to provide the editorial control over the product that the people supposedly footing the bill want.
The last pay-for-feature/pay-for-bugfix business model that worked is centralized control of the product by a nominal support organization, which acts as a barrier to entry for other people trying to get into the "we want to be maintainers too!" business. This was the Cygnus model for gcc, and it's the current Codeweavers model for Crossover Office as a commercial WINE variant. It only works because the barrier to entry for third parties is so high that there isn't competition occurring in the market.
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There were no on-duty police officers involved ...just off-duty officers and government contractors, illegally distrupting traffic, illegally collecting passive sensor data, even when consent was declined, and collecting a bunch of other information if you were willing to give it for free (the breathalyzer) or willing to be paid $10, $50, or $60, depending on how intrusive you let them get in exchange for money.
Everything about it was illegal; this was not a standard DUI checkpoint which contractors "embraced and extended", this was private citizens pulling over private citizens and collecting at least a minimum amount of data without consent.
This is a civil rights violation, and for each count where consent was not given after the fact, worth 20 years in a Federal prison.
Begging the question "aren't current nukes sufficiently accurate"?
Depends on the application and the size of the nuke. One of the reasons that Soviet missiles and warheads were so big was because thy lacked accuracy. Against a hardened target that can be important even for a nuke. More accurate nukes can be smaller. Smaller nukes let your missiles carry more of them, and they can be fitted on smaller missiles.
Unfortunately for your argument, both S.A.L.T. and S.T.A.R.T. sought to limit deployment of MIRV'ed ICBMs because the Soviets had more of them than the U.S..
Is anyone else taking odds... on whether or not they're going to smack the thing into the Indian probe?
Nuclear energy reduces greenhouse emissions, according to Japan.
OK, so is the most important thing to be anti-nuclear, or to actually save the environment?
For High School and early College degrees, knowing the basics helps later work when working with the more advanced tools. After learning (and being able to know) the basics then move into the more advanced tools. Both are needed. Generally when working on complex systems it's easiest to understand when it can be broken down into clear, demarcated segments. Overall it's complex but each individual segment is made up of basic understandable ideas. That way you don't need to look at everything all at once. This is the way much of networking works using the ISO reference model. Knowing the basics helps when you need to fall back
It's the difference between knowledge and understanding. Our society often fails to value the latter, since it is not immediately useful in the short-term and requires a wise long-view to appreciate. This is very much to our collective detriment.
This.
And with that in mind, I'd suggest a #2 pencil.
If that's too much work, I;d suggest a slide rule.
Someone has to build the calculators.
libtard
You know that if you install it in the correct location, you can just use -ltard on the linkage line, rather than spelling it out like that, right?
I can't shake off a feeling that the law enforcement and friendly news sources are using "Anonymous" as a boogeyman. When I see "Anonymous collective has hacked their systems", I read "Their systems were hacked. FBI has no leads". The law enforcement has finally found a perfect line for every situation where they demonstrate incompetence, since "anonymous" turns into "Anonymous" so easily.
Anonymous should just announce a name change "We who were formerly Anonymous announce that we are officially changing out name to 'The Boogeyman', and are claiming credit for X, Y, Z that we have been accused of perpetrating" kinda thing.
Then all the news reports get corrected to "Security Company Q attacked by The Boogeyman".
Hilarity ensues...
The War on the Internet is as much about creating an environment of fear that will justify increased spending, as it is cracking down on the young smart kids who are the real threat to the corporate para-State.
Just like the 'war on drugs' is. And people get in line willingly to support it.
The war on drugs doesn't crack down on young smart kids, it cracks down on kids who spend all day on the couch eating Cheetos and watching T.V. because they can't muster up the energy to play Call of Duty after the last bong hit, and then they head out to White Castle at two AM because they saw Derek and Kumar do it in a movie, and, besides, they have the munchies and there's no food left in the house. Neil Patrick Harris on the unicorn is optional at that point.
Typically, the war on the Internet also only cracks down on the young smart kids who have overstayed their welcome on the wrong side of the "you are no longer a minor" line, or have been sufficiently annoying to move that line past the "you will be tried as an adult" boundary.
Most people dont realize but since we started putting corn in our fuel, thousands and thousands of older cars have gone up into flames since it dissolves the OEM fuel lines after a relatively short time.
...at which point, you drive a newer car instead of your classic card, and since the newer car was likely manufactured after 1981, it has a catalytic converter and an Oxygen sensor, and doesn't need the ethanol (but won't die from it, either).
So the plan is working...
There is a lot of debate over weather or not its such a great thing to just give food away to poor countries.
I'm going to make an educated guess as to which side of this argument the starving people come down on...
Its often argued that its a better idea to support the local farmers as much as possible and only giving away food in famine situations.
Do you mean by printing tractor parts on your 3D printer, and sending them off to poor countries farmers who need tractor parts, or do you mean by marching around in a large oval carrying a placard outside G5/G8/G12 meetings and/or Monsanto headquarters.
Hint: There is a big difference between being supportive vs. providing support
Corn is what FOOD eats.
"It was at this point that I set the device with the charged Lithium battery on the still hot cooktop and turned to chip the celery".
Here we have prison to punish people. It doesn't exist as a means to control risk by controlling dangerous people. We've collectively decided that we should put people in cells(and let them be raped) like it's telling 5 year olds to stand in the corner.
Prison is not primarily to punish. I know when someone is a victim of a crime, they like to believe it exists to punish criminals. That's not what is intended.
The intent of any punitive action by a court is to discourage an activity in such a way that the rest of society doesn't engage in the behaviour.
Think about it: do the police arrive before a crime and prevent it, or do they show up afterwards? Do we penalize manslaughter to a lesser degree because we think the victim is any less dead than if it had been second or first degree murder instead? Punishment is clearly intended to send a message to the rest of society, not make the victim or the victims families feel better about themselves.
The message is clearly intended as "Don't do this; if you get caught, this is what will happen to you, and you should fear that penalty enough that you don't engage in the proscribed behaviour". We tend to lose sight of this because of cases that drag on for years, rather than having the penalty assessed immediately; delayed punishment = delayed threat. But until Tom Cruise starts showing up at your house to prevent murders which you are about to commit, in no way is the system about punishing criminals.
These days, all it takes to shake up the whole publishing industry is to be successful. The whole industry is in sharp decline and everyone knows it, especially those within.
I'd like to think they have a chance. Their goals are certainly noble. But I wouldn't be too optimistic.
That's a $3.3M / year gross income, assuming all subscribers are paying for a full year, and that they are paying the full subscription price.
It's really doubtful that an indiegogo crowdfunding is going to raise a lot of money, even with an advertisement on slashdot, given that they do not follow the kickstarter model, and whatever you donate, regardless of whether or not they hit their goals, they get to keep.
What it would take to be successful, at least if you want my $, is actual editing. If you include the whole industry, which this summary tries to do, you'd also have to charge less for the much less desirable electronic copies, and you'd still need to actually hire editors, so that I don't end up having to do spelling and grammar correction as I read along, and I don't run into things like huge continuity holes. It'd also be nice if, when a line ends with "the", the next line doesn't begin with "the" as well. Distinguishing "lose" and "loose" from each other, and "to" / "two" / "too" and "principle" / "principal" and "there" / "they're" / "their" would just be a fantastic bonus.
Most electronic copy these days is crap, and most hard copy, where they've decided that the electronic copy sold well enough that it's worth making a paper publishing run ... typically doesn't get editing, and is also crap, since it's just sending the bad electronic copy off to a printer.
Yeah, the publishing industry is tanking, but there are some really obvious reasons that's so, and if publishers would address them, then their businesses wouldn't be tanking.
No. The creators of C were not terribly concerned about the extra compilation time - they were concerned about generating efficient code and representing it efficiently in the source.
Yes. But what made C such a universal language was the incidental fact that this made the compiler easier to implement.
Except the first machines C ran on didn't have an "add unity to memory" instruction unless you got out the wire wrap tools and made one, so this excuse doesn't work.
The real reason is that variables and arrays actually take up memory, and if you understand this fact, then you will naturally gravitate toward using a 0 offset, whereas if you don't, then you probably learned programming using a language that hides the underlying memory allocations from you. Which is why anyone who wants to claim they are a programmer should learn at least one assembly language, so that they understand that memory is just that free stuff, and that you actually have to allocate backing store for variables.
....It's CDDL licensed, as Solaris was, and the model is "managed community", the way Solaris was ....
I can tell you that Oracle absolutely hates CDDL licensing. It was Mission #1 to abolish all CDDL licensing after absorbing Sun.
No doubt; and when IBM bought the startup I worked for around 2000, the missions was "abolish the GPL'ed code wherever it touches on IBM patents", which basically meant yanking the SQUID code out of the InterJet and replacing it with much dumber caching software so that IBM wasn't accidently granting a royalty free license to use those six patents.
My point on the CDDL is that it has as an emergent property centralized control of the community with the company originally licensing out the code, since all contributions back end up with an assignment of rights.
I'm going to guess that Oracle was just as unhappy with the Linux distribution they inherited, and with the GPL on the MySQL code, but at least in those cases, forking was possible, whereas the CDDL pretty much makes it difficult to effectively fork, as the OpenIndiana / Illumos folks have discovered.
Granted I didn't consider all aspects when I posted that... things could be much better now than they are, though. Why do the majority of hybrids on the market get shittier gas mileage than a 1990 Metro? Don't tell me it's because they're heavier; they're hybrids, the engine isn't even running most of the time!
For my 1991 Geo Metro convertible, it's the reformulated gas in California that drops a little over 20% of my gas mileage. If I drive it to Arizona or Utah, and fill up on "Winter gas", which is not reformulated, then my mileage goes back up over 60MPG. For cars manufactured since 1981, the reformulated gas does nothing but lower your gas mileage, which is a pretty useless thing, since cars manufactured in 1981 and later have oxygen sensors, and don't burn any cleaner with reformulated gas. We're basically all getting crappy gas so Jay Leno can run his classic cars at lower pollution levels.
I have a friend who is an "eco modder" - he modifies vehicles to improve their gas mileage. His modified Honda CRX HF from the early 1990's get around 106 MPG; without the mods, stock from the dealer, and without reformulated gas, they typically got around 72MPG, so with the reformulated California gas, he's sitting at about double the gas mileage.
U.S. Car manufacturers ended up buying a bunch of CRX HF's because they couldn't compete in MPG, and then they figured out a crash test that they could throw at them that they couldn't pass. Rather than paying to destroy 50 or so cars after manufacturing changes to pass the test, Honda just quit importing them into the U.S.. They continued to sell in Japan and other markets for a while
The article summary is a bit off...
It claims performance and trackpad issues, but the reason for the halted sales according the article it claims to be a summary of was the 500ma microUSB charger, which has thermal issues in the charger itself. This is kind of expected for a first attempt at an Apple-style higher amperage charger that attempts to negotiate a quicker charge rate, the same way Apple chargers do a similar thing for faster iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch device charging.
It's likely that the suggested workaround is going to cause the charging circuit not to trip, which would mean that you would need to charge with the device powered down, since you might not be able to utilize it at full power draw and still be able to charge, as you could with the factory charger. Mopst likely the overheating only happens using the factor charger while also drawing current due to the device being on.
I saw some comments on the Touchpad in various articles, which is kind of expected if you don't do the necessary addition work for the laptop EC to get the better support for the touchpad and keyboard matrix. There's actually a document describing what vendors need to do to get this right, and it generally takes either in-house engineering or at least a phone call before a vendor actually "gets it". I worked with both Samsung and Acer to make sure their Chromebook trackpads did "the right thing", based on their EC units behaviour; I'm not sure who handled it for the HP unit, but it's kinda of a well known issue when it comes to HP or Toshiba laptops with lower end touchpads, unless you work around the various issues in software.
This can't possibly be related to track record?
It's CDDL licensed, as Solaris was, and the model is "managed community", the way Solaris was -- what guarantee did any contributor possibly have that Oracle wouldn't do to it exactly what they've done to the Open Source Solaris community? As in, *exactly* what they just announced?
The problem with "managed community" is that the "manager" can yank the rug out from under you at any time.
And who exactly thinks it's fun to work on Java based application server implementations anyway?
Are you willing to monoculture your vendors?
If the answer is "no", then you are stuck with your home-grown stuff. Vendors intentionally introduce incompatibilities to lock you into using only them, so you aren't going to find some project that provides a HAL, or at least not one that will live through the next software update from one of your vendors.
You should also be aware (I'm sure you are, if you understand the dynamics of your scripts, but some reading this probably aren't) that some systems won't negotiate a KVM style console unless they are selected active in the KVM prior to boot, so there's an interaction between your power management sequencing and the virtual serial and real serial, and that varies from vendor to vendor and software update to software update.
If you are also using Real KVM(tm) style virtual video consoles, you're probably already aware that Linux and most other Open Source OS's fail to negotiate EDID information correctly, unless you use the closed source video drivers, unless they are selected as the active input on the virtual/real video display device, since those implementations are usually not multithreaded, and so if you have 4 HDMI inputs, and #2 is selected, and #4 is where the device is that comes up and does it's one-time negotiation (this is what's broken about the OS drivers: they should retry periodically until they get a response, then echo up the response to the video driver, which if it's in X/Wayland in user space, it's not going to happen, since it only happens at startup) you are SOL. So your scripts probably have that knowledge, too. Not that it'll do you any good if you have a Linux box on the second input on a physical Samsung monitor, mind you, as they automatically switch away from inactive inputs, and default tho the first input if there are none active.
So good luck with your ask, unless you are willing to start your own project, and are willing to push to get UEFI, u-boot, Linux/BSD video drivers, and other things fixed as part of the project overhead.
His opponents are too busy arguing with each other about how they lost to undermine anything. Pull your head in and just pay attention to how the plans were shambolic back of the envelope bullshit that they will fail with no help once they make contact with reality.
Oh, that's pretty obvious; it would take a huge amount of payola, buying the hulks for new prices, etc., in order to get the people selling them to put economic pressure on their own government such that Indonesia will happily swallow the refugee problem as their own. It's seriously against their own best interests do the deal, rather than passing on the problem to the next guy, so no deal will happen without overcoming the graft threshold.
Meanwhile, Snowden is a pretty good scapegoat for not doing it, since it curries favor with the U.S. for everyone involved.
It should be noted that 'people smuggling' isn't related to slavery; it's the politicised term for the people who help refugees get to Autralia. The efforts to stop people smugglers are about the current Australian government's (xenophobic) anti-refugee policies; they're the result of domestic politics, not a cooperative effort to stop human trafficking.
It's not actually xenophobia when you attempt to enforce your national borders.
The situation between Indonesia and Australia is similar to the situation between Mexico and the U.S., where the Mexican government in some cases actually busses illegals to the U.S. border in order to aid their illegal immigartion into the U.S.. While most illegals are economic refugees, the bussing mostly involved "undesirables" in Mexico, which included Mexican criminals, but more frequently were refugees from Guatamala and El Salvador, which Mexico preferred to make "not their problem". PBS did a documentary on this a while back:
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/beyondtheborder/immigration.html
The "cooperation" being negotiated in this case is primarily dealing with people using Indonesia as a transit point, and less so export of Indonesian "bad apples", just as with the U.S. (although Indonesia will happily export locally grown Al Qaeda to get rid of them). A significant number of these come from the Middle East, including a large portion of them from Iraq, and to a lesser extent, Lebanon. Here are some examples:
http://www.niqash.org/articles/?id=3308
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920705000600
One of the agreements being negotiated has been buying unused boats which could be made sufficiently seaworthy to get from Indonesia to Australia:
http://qz.com/118198/australias-election-frontrunner-thinks-buying-broken-indonesian-boats-will-stave-off-asylum-seekers/ ...but it benefits Tony Abbot's opponents to find ways to undermine that plan as much as possible, and it benefits Indonesian politicians to be complicit in that, and seize on any excuse, lest the illegal immigrant refugees end up stuck in Indonesia instead (Indonesia doesn't want them either). So at this point, it's largely an argument between the mostly empty regions of Australia and the more densely populated regions (analogous to the red state/blue state U.S. division that had Arizona enforcing immigration laws that the U.S. federal government would not).
So basically, politics, not Snowden.
Batch conversion with no screen output is not supported, which many people want so that they can provide screen readers for things like forms documents that are required on state and federal forms documents which are flagged as "no edit", which makes them non-compliant with the Americans with Disability Act (ADA).
It's even worse than that!
All the primary sources which would let us know about this are behind paywalls, so even when you post them on slashdot, nobody can read the freaking things, so it doesn't matter...
The problem this has always had in the past is that what people want to pay for is generally not actually a bug, it's editorial control over some aspect of the product which they dislike. This may or may not have an impact on "fitness for purpose" of the person who is willing to supply the "bribe".
A good example of this is the lack of Cairo back end rendering support in xpdf, which will only get included over the primary maintainers dead body, according to at least 3 GNATS database bug reports by third parties who would desperately like to see Cairo support, and have even provided code to implement it.
Only they are not SO desperate for this support that they are willing to fork the project and shoulder the same burdens shouldered by the current maintainer. So it seems they are willing to pay a "bribe", it's just not a sufficient one for them to get their way. And so it remain unsupported.
I really don't see this site going any farther than the half dozen sites that have tried the same thing in the past, and also failed to provide the editorial control over the product that the people supposedly footing the bill want.
The last pay-for-feature/pay-for-bugfix business model that worked is centralized control of the product by a nominal support organization, which acts as a barrier to entry for other people trying to get into the "we want to be maintainers too!" business. This was the Cygnus model for gcc, and it's the current Codeweavers model for Crossover Office as a commercial WINE variant. It only works because the barrier to entry for third parties is so high that there isn't competition occurring in the market.
So once again: nothing to see here.