Except most of the murders are not committed using guns, and even if you excluded gun murders the US would still have a very high murder rate by developed country standards. On the ohter hand lots of places have high gun ownership and low murder rates.
When the UK strengthened enforcement of its guns laws (i.e. making for effort to find and seize illegal guns) the result was an increase in knife murders.
I have always lived in countries where civilian use of guns is tightly restricted, and my instinct is to sympathise with the ban, but I think the "guns don't kill people. people kill people" lot have the facts on their side.
This is not a case of Google hard coding a search result. Its more accurate to say that Google hard codes a small amount of content that appears above the search results. This is useful for users: for example, if I search for "GOOG" because I want Google's share price, I get it (and a graph and some other numbers) straight away.
This content includes links to Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, MSN Money etc. that point to their page on GOOG.
Bing does exactly the same thing, except that they only include links to MSN Money. Bing also provides hard coded links to lots of others content including a Bing hosted copy of Wikipedia.
I know that Mongo DB is not durable, and they (recommend using replication for reliability ), that sounds like a substantial sacrifice. Do these DBs have equivalents to referential integrity and joins?
Firstly, even if you are right, I will worry about that when it is a imminent threat. In the meantime I think I have a good few years of not worrying about security.
Secondly, MS has a pretty poor security track record even where it is not dominant - e.g. server software, so it is not unreasonable to assume that someone else could do better.
Thirdly, even if Linux was the dominant desktop OS, we would have a choice of distros and would not suffer from an easily targeted monoculture.
I have used the forums for several Linux distros (Ubuntu, Mandriva and Mint) quite heavily, as well as occasionally reading other forums and I have rarely seen a rude reply, and never received one.
Over the years I have installed many binaries which run on lots of different versions of Linux, and they all worked fine. I can never remember seeing a change log showing that a major rewrite was necessary because of an API change.
I ran the oldest Linux binary I could find (only just under three years since the last revision, but a web browser is a complex app that should break easily) and it works perfectly.
1) The Unix component of OSX is open source 2) The GP is talking about the server market (proprietary Unix never had much desktop share), where Linux has beaten MacOS 3) Some measures (such as the number of IPs hitting repos for updates) suggest that Linux does have comparable market share to Mac. Add the devices that are not hitting the public repos (servers updating from in house repos, embedded devices, etc.) and Linux is probably well ahead.
You could buy a low end Nokia for half the price, but this looks a lot better and makes a statement that you want a simple phone rather than that you cannot afford a complex one. Its a bit like buying Apple.
There is no reason you cant get it elsewhere and install it yourself on Fedora. That works for windows folks.
One of the reasons I use Linux is because I far prefer package management to manual installs. If to much software needs this, then I might was well use Windows or Mac (at least as far as software installation goes).
Its also ironic that Iraq is, in many ways, more oppressive than it was under Saddam Hussein - for example, Iraqi Christians (and other religious minorities) are being driven out of the country by concerted murder and percsecution. This was entirely predictable, and the US government was warned of this by Christian groups (including the Catholic church) before the invasion.
They (especially the richer ones) go to London for the same things. London s also good for gay Saudi's (like the King's grandson who was recently convicted in Britain of murdering his servant who he apparently had a horribly abusive homosexual relationship with), those into gambling, and, in general, want to get away with more than is allowed in the UAE or Bahrain.
Suppose a security flaw is found in a commonly used library, do you think you will get more timely security updates by
1) the packager for that library providing an updates package, or, 2) every single application that uses it providing an updated package
The CDE site gives two reasons for doing this:
1) To solve "dependency hell". This is a rare problem these days - except with Skype! 2) To provide guaranteed reproducible results for researchers. This is a specialist concern, and not necessaries a good thing - it means that results that are the product of a bug in a particular version of a library will be duly reproduced.
There are plenty of websites that are very legible - oh, you mean magazines are prettier Guess what? I do not care. I read them for the content.
You also appear not to have heard of a subscription only web site.
Finally, the vast majority of magazines are mass circulation. If something is so specialist that it cannot be ad supported given the lower costs of a website, you are going to struggle to cover printing and distribution costs for print as well. Again, there are plenty of very specialist web sites that seem to survive.
To be fair, he won case itself.Suing the other side's lawyers for malicious prosecution. The courts are, rightly, going to demand more evidence than one note from one lawyer in the firm to make that finding - for one thing, it was easy to sue the other side's lawyers it would be more difficult and expensive for a lot of people to go to court.
The defendant in the case he won has been dissolved, so he went after the lawyers to try and get something from them instead. It might have been better to go after the people who actually did the lying.
She is also a very irritating person. She is pompous, presents herself as some kind of spokesman for "South Asians" (perpetuating the stereotype that people from a huge range of backgrounds and cultures are all the same) and does not have much of value to say.
What makes you say that she is at a serious risk of violence?
IN any case, this was certainly not a serious threat.
The reason it should not be legal is that it is a promise to buy from a particular supplier. It would be OK (not necessarily good policy, but not wrong in the same way) for him to promise to buy tablets from whichever vendor offered the best deal on suitable hardware and software.
I like PostgreSQL, but in most respects it is just starting to achieve the level of flexibility that Oracle had with the release of Oracle 7 some seventeen years ago.
Can you elaborate? I have never really found a good explanation of how well PostgreSQL compares to the high end proprietary RDBMSs, or even of how well they compare to each other.
Interface design that specifically and completely bars programmers from participating
Better UI design might be needed (although I think that applies to specific apps, rather than "linux").
Abandonment of 99% of the distros
Why? Linux desktop usage is already dominated by a few distros.
Acceptance of proprietary drivers when offered (normal people don't give a damn about open source philosophy)
People, especially businesses, need to be educated in the advantages of open source. The underlying argument is that you look for second sources, security testing, etc. for everything else you rely on, so why not use software to which you can apply the same standards.
Also, all the major distros do use proprietary drivers.
Provision of real, available, phone-based technical support
Which is more available for Linux than it is from MS.
Real, complete documentation
No one reads documentation. Ubuntu, at least, already has lots of documentation.
Consolidate, standardize, and corporatize. Staff and support. Advertise. Court developers. In other words, build a better Microsoft.
There are distros doing all of that. The weak point is advertising.
while everybody knows that TERRORISTS aren't elderly white cripples
How do we know that, exactly? What was the ethnicity of the perpetrator of the largest terrorist attack in the US prior to 9/11? There are plenty of examples from Europe two. Quite a lot of Islamic fundamentalists are white.
I never heard that a terrorist could not be disabled or elderly either.
If you give any group of people a free pass from security , terrorists will recruit that group.
The problem is not that the content might offend the readers.
The problem is that the advertisers may not like having their product advertised next to the content.
Google has sweeping restriction because they place ads, so they cannot check what content any given ad will appear next to, so the simplest solution is to have fairly strict rules so that they come close to every advertiser being happy with every site.
Most of the ad networks have similar restrictions.
The solution is to not use Google and similar ads on user generated content unless you have effective systems for moderating the content, or your site is big enough for Google to tell your your systems are OK, or you are prepared for them pulling out.
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Except most of the murders are not committed using guns, and even if you excluded gun murders the US would still have a very high murder rate by developed country standards. On the ohter hand lots of places have high gun ownership and low murder rates.
When the UK strengthened enforcement of its guns laws (i.e. making for effort to find and seize illegal guns) the result was an increase in knife murders.
I have always lived in countries where civilian use of guns is tightly restricted, and my instinct is to sympathise with the ban, but I think the "guns don't kill people. people kill people" lot have the facts on their side.
This is not a case of Google hard coding a search result. Its more accurate to say that Google hard codes a small amount of content that appears above the search results. This is useful for users: for example, if I search for "GOOG" because I want Google's share price, I get it (and a graph and some other numbers) straight away.
This content includes links to Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, MSN Money etc. that point to their page on GOOG.
Bing does exactly the same thing, except that they only include links to MSN Money. Bing also provides hard coded links to lots of others content including a Bing hosted copy of Wikipedia.
I know that Mongo DB is not durable, and they (recommend using replication for reliability ), that sounds like a substantial sacrifice. Do these DBs have equivalents to referential integrity and joins?
LOL. Where do all these 'there is no difference in security between operating system' trolls come from?
Microsoft Russia.
Firstly, even if you are right, I will worry about that when it is a imminent threat. In the meantime I think I have a good few years of not worrying about security.
Secondly, MS has a pretty poor security track record even where it is not dominant - e.g. server software, so it is not unreasonable to assume that someone else could do better.
Thirdly, even if Linux was the dominant desktop OS, we would have a choice of distros and would not suffer from an easily targeted monoculture.
Just three flaws in your reasoning,
I have used the forums for several Linux distros (Ubuntu, Mandriva and Mint) quite heavily, as well as occasionally reading other forums and I have rarely seen a rude reply, and never received one.
What forums are you talking about?
Over the years I have installed many binaries which run on lots of different versions of Linux, and they all worked fine. I can never remember seeing a change log showing that a major rewrite was necessary because of an API change.
I ran the oldest Linux binary I could find (only just under three years since the last revision, but a web browser is a complex app that should break easily) and it works perfectly.
Just how common are these problems?
1) The Unix component of OSX is open source
2) The GP is talking about the server market (proprietary Unix never had much desktop share), where Linux has beaten MacOS
3) Some measures (such as the number of IPs hitting repos for updates) suggest that Linux does have comparable market share to Mac. Add the devices that are not hitting the public repos (servers updating from in house repos, embedded devices, etc.) and Linux is probably well ahead.
I think that's his point: its sad that they need to worry about how its perceived.
You could buy a low end Nokia for half the price, but this looks a lot better and makes a statement that you want a simple phone rather than that you cannot afford a complex one. Its a bit like buying Apple.
The quiz linked to by the parent requires you to register with a singles site to get the answers.
There is no reason you cant get it elsewhere and install it yourself on Fedora. That works for windows folks.
One of the reasons I use Linux is because I far prefer package management to manual installs. If to much software needs this, then I might was well use Windows or Mac (at least as far as software installation goes).
Its also ironic that Iraq is, in many ways, more oppressive than it was under Saddam Hussein - for example, Iraqi Christians (and other religious minorities) are being driven out of the country by concerted murder and percsecution. This was entirely predictable, and the US government was warned of this by Christian groups (including the Catholic church) before the invasion.
They (especially the richer ones) go to London for the same things. London s also good for gay Saudi's (like the King's grandson who was recently convicted in Britain of murdering his servant who he apparently had a horribly abusive homosexual relationship with), those into gambling, and, in general, want to get away with more than is allowed in the UAE or Bahrain.
Suppose a security flaw is found in a commonly used library, do you think you will get more timely security updates by
1) the packager for that library providing an updates package, or,
2) every single application that uses it providing an updated package
The CDE site gives two reasons for doing this:
1) To solve "dependency hell". This is a rare problem these days - except with Skype!
2) To provide guaranteed reproducible results for researchers. This is a specialist concern, and not necessaries a good thing - it means that results that are the product of a bug in a particular version of a library will be duly reproduced.
There are plenty of websites that are very legible - oh, you mean magazines are prettier Guess what? I do not care. I read them for the content.
You also appear not to have heard of a subscription only web site.
Finally, the vast majority of magazines are mass circulation. If something is so specialist that it cannot be ad supported given the lower costs of a website, you are going to struggle to cover printing and distribution costs for print as well. Again, there are plenty of very specialist web sites that seem to survive.
To be fair, he won case itself.Suing the other side's lawyers for malicious prosecution. The courts are, rightly, going to demand more evidence than one note from one lawyer in the firm to make that finding - for one thing, it was easy to sue the other side's lawyers it would be more difficult and expensive for a lot of people to go to court.
The defendant in the case he won has been dissolved, so he went after the lawyers to try and get something from them instead. It might have been better to go after the people who actually did the lying.
She is also a very irritating person. She is pompous, presents herself as some kind of spokesman for "South Asians" (perpetuating the stereotype that people from a huge range of backgrounds and cultures are all the same) and does not have much of value to say.
What makes you say that she is at a serious risk of violence?
IN any case, this was certainly not a serious threat.
The reason it should not be legal is that it is a promise to buy from a particular supplier. It would be OK (not necessarily good policy, but not wrong in the same way) for him to promise to buy tablets from whichever vendor offered the best deal on suitable hardware and software.
I like PostgreSQL, but in most respects it is just starting to achieve the level of flexibility that Oracle had with the release of Oracle 7 some seventeen years ago.
Can you elaborate? I have never really found a good explanation of how well PostgreSQL compares to the high end proprietary RDBMSs, or even of how well they compare to each other.
I would be very surprised. Stock exchanges pay for high performance, and their automated trading systems tend to be fairly new.
Basically, until there is an easy way to run all windows programs (or nearly all of them) under linux
So that is why no-one uses MacOS! Oh...
Interface design that specifically and completely bars programmers from participating
Better UI design might be needed (although I think that applies to specific apps, rather than "linux").
Abandonment of 99% of the distros
Why? Linux desktop usage is already dominated by a few distros.
Acceptance of proprietary drivers when offered (normal people don't give a damn about open source philosophy)
People, especially businesses, need to be educated in the advantages of open source. The underlying argument is that you look for second sources, security testing, etc. for everything else you rely on, so why not use software to which you can apply the same standards.
Also, all the major distros do use proprietary drivers.
Provision of real, available, phone-based technical support
Which is more available for Linux than it is from MS.
Real, complete documentation
No one reads documentation. Ubuntu, at least, already has lots of documentation.
Consolidate, standardize, and corporatize. Staff and support. Advertise. Court developers. In other words, build a better Microsoft.
There are distros doing all of that. The weak point is advertising.
while everybody knows that TERRORISTS aren't elderly white cripples
How do we know that, exactly? What was the ethnicity of the perpetrator of the largest terrorist attack in the US prior to 9/11? There are plenty of examples from Europe two. Quite a lot of Islamic fundamentalists are white.
I never heard that a terrorist could not be disabled or elderly either.
If you give any group of people a free pass from security , terrorists will recruit that group.
The problem is not that the content might offend the readers.
The problem is that the advertisers may not like having their product advertised next to the content.
Google has sweeping restriction because they place ads, so they cannot check what content any given ad will appear next to, so the simplest solution is to have fairly strict rules so that they come close to every advertiser being happy with every site.
Most of the ad networks have similar restrictions.
The solution is to not use Google and similar ads on user generated content unless you have effective systems for moderating the content, or your site is big enough for Google to tell your your systems are OK, or you are prepared for them pulling out.