I used to work in downtown Los Angeles, and it's a decent place to walk... I'll admit to some dilapidation, but I never worried about being shot.
I visited the US for the first time several years ago, and my biggest disappointment was that I drove on several freeways in LA and didn't get shot at once!:-)
I think there is some confusion here. Red Hat is no longer providing separate patches in the Red Hat kernel package. I am pretty sure Red Hat will continue to provide patches back to the kernel development community. I don't think the kernel developer community are downloading the Red Hat source RPM for the kernel and extracting the patches to include in the tree.
Other distros will not be affected, Red Hat's Stevens says, because the company distributes its kernel changes upstream as well. "The work that we've done should not impede companies from building their own versions of Linux and supporting those for their customers," he says. "All the code we deliver through RHEL is out there. In most cases, the changes that go into RHEL. We already distribute into the upstream kernel. We have an upstream-first policy, where we're developing openly and then later integrating into our tree and then delivering it. So it shouldn't at all impede the community or anybody that's in the business of competing on that."
Not that I'm a fan of tracking, but it does fix one other problem...
did I vote without knowing it,
did my vote get discarded, OR
did my vote get counted for the option I intended?
The people arguing for tracking are claiming that tampering is possible by people who will gladly accept the fact that you voted, but ignore who you voted for (by switching ballot papers, discarding your vote as "invalid", etc...)
Now, there are other ways of solving that problem, which do not require public voting lists, but the argument is that they are more complicated so people won't understand them.
The higher the voter turnout, the greater the percentage of voters who actually cared enough to study the issues.
The higher the voter turnout, the greater the percentage of voters who actually cared enough to form an opinion about an issue.
Whether they formed that opinion through study or some other means, and whether it is a single issue or many issues, is not evident. But yeah, they cared enough to form opinions and act on them...
Yup. The guy who filed the suit is Kevin Cammarata of Los Angeles, California. I couldn't see whether he owns any sites (to avoid), though... a quick Google search only turned up various articles about this lawsuit.
Plaintiff Kevin Cammarata alleges that he is the former owner of several subscription-based adult entertainment websites who, "under pressure from and as a result of the unlawful practices of the [d]efendants . . . sold his business at an unfavorable price."
I remember that crypt used to only care about the first 8 characters, but I don't remember anything about it being case insensitive... Where did that come from?
Agreed. In fact, they not only get the model ID, they also get the IMEI ("equipment identifier" roughly equivalent to a serial number), so they can choose to lock out this specific piece of hardware just because they feel like it, even if they let others of the same model through...
Most people had the expectation that they would be able to receive broadcasts with the addition of a digital box.
And most people could. Only the people near the limit of the error-correctable range would be affected. However, the people who are negatively impacted will always be the most vocal about the new system, and thus will create the impression that the system was somehow inherently broken...
The digital cliff effect (also at wiki:Cliff Effect) is what ends up with some people requiring new antennas... However anyone who could receive reasonable picture quality over analogue with rabbit ears should be able to get digital with similar equipment, except in the "cliff zone"...
Carriers get to decide which devices are allowed on their network.
In the GSM world, carriers don't get to decide which devices are allowed on their networks. They get to issue subscribers (people) with identification modules (SIM), which can be placed into any compatible device (phone, computer, or otherwise) and the device can then authenticate and talk to the network.
Wait, am I getting this right? Intel wrote an _open source_ driver working with the latest and greatest in Linux GPU-support-land, it was availible on release day, and people are WHINING about this?!
You're getting it 90% right - the whining hasn't started yet, but these guys are explaining why it's about to start...
It's not a single driver - Intel contributed patches to all the relevant projects for support for the new features; but they've only been included into the repositories so far, and are expected to be included in the upcoming releases over the next few weeks, and some features are not yet complete, or not even planned to be supported...
The components involved which would need recompiling on to work include the kernel, the lowest-level support libraries like libdrm and libmesa, and X - the holy trinity of "if this fucks up I can't use my computer"...
Since the patches haven't been backported, they likely won't make it into packages which can be installed on currently-available release, or even next-releases of the big distros, where the freeze window starts some 6 months ahead of release...
From the article:
Over the years the expectations of Linux users have gone from simply wanting Linux drivers for their hardware to wanting open-source Linux drivers (read: no binary blobs) to now wanting open-source drivers in the distribution of their choice at the time the hardware first ships...
So, yeah - there's code out there which should be usable to make the open-source drivers go, but most of the reviewers on the net won't be able to make the bits go, some of the bits won't be ready for a while, and in general, anyone who tries to make them go in order to review this will have something or other to complain about...
But you're spot on with this statement, which echos some of the sentiments from the article:
I guess Linux on the desktop has come a long way when people start bitching about new hardware not being supported out of the box in Ubuntu.
Interesting. Have you also noticed that the google favicon uses the exact colours from the windows logo, in the same colour order, just rotated 90degrees clockwise, and with the cursive letter "g" superimposed?
... At least that is what I was told when I was working at a recording studio...
Part of the point here is that "what you get told" and "what actually happens" aren't all that similar. And sometimes even to the extent that you do get paid, you end up being compelled to plow a big chunk of that back into the next album...
But there's so much hearsay going around as well, so it's hard to know what exactly any one company or band is affected by...
"Infographic" is the term givent to the category of pictorially represented information, including but not limited to maps, charts, graphs, and combinations and augmentations of the above ("mashups" of maps with charts, etc)...
For example, http://xkcd.com/681/ is an infographic which is neither graph, chart, nor map.
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I used to work in downtown Los Angeles, and it's a decent place to walk... I'll admit to some dilapidation, but I never worried about being shot.
I visited the US for the first time several years ago, and my biggest disappointment was that I drove on several freeways in LA and didn't get shot at once! :-)
I think there is some confusion here. Red Hat is no longer providing separate patches in the Red Hat kernel package. I am pretty sure Red Hat will continue to provide patches back to the kernel development community. I don't think the kernel developer community are downloading the Red Hat source RPM for the kernel and extracting the patches to include in the tree.
I'm confused too. Red Hat says they still submit their patches upstream first, but then some kernel developers suggest that they poke around in the release kernel instead. I'm not sure which is which, whether RH is playing dirty, or whether there are specific incidents which are causing problems in an otherwise supportive relationship...
That's interesting. Red Hat claims that they still submit their patches upstream first, but maybe it doesn't all go smoothly...
From that article:
If I want to share my pictures I'll either email them a link to my server, or host them on flickr, thank you very much.
Because flickr is so different from facebook in this respect? It's another cloud service which is one acquisition away from disappearing.
Eventually, we're going to have more criminals in the population than productive citizens.
Eventually? You mean that hasn't happened already?
Not that I'm a fan of tracking, but it does fix one other problem...
The people arguing for tracking are claiming that tampering is possible by people who will gladly accept the fact that you voted, but ignore who you voted for (by switching ballot papers, discarding your vote as "invalid", etc...)
Now, there are other ways of solving that problem, which do not require public voting lists, but the argument is that they are more complicated so people won't understand them.
The higher the voter turnout, the greater the percentage of voters who actually cared enough to study the issues.
The higher the voter turnout, the greater the percentage of voters who actually cared enough to form an opinion about an issue.
Whether they formed that opinion through study or some other means, and whether it is a single issue or many issues, is not evident. But yeah, they cared enough to form opinions and act on them...
Most people screw, and if not, we know that at least their parents did.
FTFY.
Yup. The guy who filed the suit is Kevin Cammarata of Los Angeles, California. I couldn't see whether he owns any sites (to avoid), though... a quick Google search only turned up various articles about this lawsuit.
From the case details
Plaintiff Kevin Cammarata alleges that he is the former owner of several subscription-based adult entertainment websites who, "under pressure from and as a result of the unlawful practices of the [d]efendants . . . sold his business at an unfavorable price."
So, possibly he doesn't own any sites anymore...
Appears to apply only to Internet Explorer
And anything else which uses the MHTML component, which includes many, many applications, including anything which uses the "Windows Help" system...
I remember that crypt used to only care about the first 8 characters, but I don't remember anything about it being case insensitive... Where did that come from?
Agreed. In fact, they not only get the model ID, they also get the IMEI ("equipment identifier" roughly equivalent to a serial number), so they can choose to lock out this specific piece of hardware just because they feel like it, even if they let others of the same model through...
The truth is that analog was far more robust. I might not get a great signal, but I got a usable one. Now I don't even get that.
And the trade off was that the analog signal used around four times the bandwidth to get that robustness...
Most people had the expectation that they would be able to receive broadcasts with the addition of a digital box.
And most people could. Only the people near the limit of the error-correctable range would be affected. However, the people who are negatively impacted will always be the most vocal about the new system, and thus will create the impression that the system was somehow inherently broken...
The digital cliff effect (also at wiki:Cliff Effect) is what ends up with some people requiring new antennas... However anyone who could receive reasonable picture quality over analogue with rabbit ears should be able to get digital with similar equipment, except in the "cliff zone"...
Carriers get to decide which devices are allowed on their network.
In the GSM world, carriers don't get to decide which devices are allowed on their networks. They get to issue subscribers (people) with identification modules (SIM), which can be placed into any compatible device (phone, computer, or otherwise) and the device can then authenticate and talk to the network.
I assume by
Once the CC# is in the database it shouldn't be retrievable.
he meant something fairly similar to
stored in encrypted form and restricted access.
Admittedly, those statements aren't identical, but they're close enough for the vast majority of the employees....
Voda NZ spokesperson states that their systems are unaffected... "We use a completely different security set-up to Australia, which would make it extremely hard for someone to access data..."
However, their official statement on the matter does nothing to show that they were unaffected...
Wait, am I getting this right? Intel wrote an _open source_ driver working with the latest and greatest in Linux GPU-support-land, it was availible on release day, and people are WHINING about this?!
You're getting it 90% right - the whining hasn't started yet, but these guys are explaining why it's about to start...
Over the years the expectations of Linux users have gone from simply wanting Linux drivers for their hardware to wanting open-source Linux drivers (read: no binary blobs) to now wanting open-source drivers in the distribution of their choice at the time the hardware first ships...
So, yeah - there's code out there which should be usable to make the open-source drivers go, but most of the reviewers on the net won't be able to make the bits go, some of the bits won't be ready for a while, and in general, anyone who tries to make them go in order to review this will have something or other to complain about...
But you're spot on with this statement, which echos some of the sentiments from the article:
I guess Linux on the desktop has come a long way when people start bitching about new hardware not being supported out of the box in Ubuntu.
... but who has web cams pointed to the sky off shore?
According to TFA, that would be Newport Beach...
Interesting. Have you also noticed that the google favicon uses the exact colours from the windows logo, in the same colour order, just rotated 90degrees clockwise, and with the cursive letter "g" superimposed?
I've never understood the correlation between having a model next to anything, say a smartphone.
...
I know it's supposed to incite buying the object, but I don't see any link.
Some research which might be illuminating:
Part of the point here is that "what you get told" and "what actually happens" aren't all that similar. And sometimes even to the extent that you do get paid, you end up being compelled to plow a big chunk of that back into the next album...
But there's so much hearsay going around as well, so it's hard to know what exactly any one company or band is affected by...
Why aren't maps just "maps"?
Maps are just maps. Charts are just charts.
"Infographic" is the term givent to the category of pictorially represented information, including but not limited to maps, charts, graphs, and combinations and augmentations of the above ("mashups" of maps with charts, etc)...
For example, http://xkcd.com/681/ is an infographic which is neither graph, chart, nor map.
P.S. The only thing better than the "grad student technique" is the "summer intern technique"
Especially if she's hot...
Or Natalie Portman.
No Hot Grits?