But please.
WHY. THE. FUCK. break decades of well-established Unix conventions? Why the actual fuck?
I hate the arrogance of the systemd folks who think they are doing everything better. Even Darwin respects Unix conventions more than systemd. And yes, they scrapped sysvinit too. And yes, I still prefer sysvinit.
Well established Unix conventions, like using unencrypted connections (Telnet, UUCP, rlogin etc) that sends password in clear text? Unix was chock full of insecure way of doing things and an unfortunately a lot of this have carried over to Linux with the end result that multi-user Linux security seems to rely on users being nice guys as a basic security measure.
With this change, people can at least ensure that their user run service doesn't DoS the server unintentionally.
No, it doesn't actually fix any of those possible issues at all. It does nothing to prevent them.
That isn't a problem of course, even with the new systemd defaults. Just use systemd-run --user --scope screen and the process and all other processes started from screen will survive logout.
What the... ?? Is this a troll? You can't be serious. C'mon - what the hell is this shit? OMG - REALLY? Wow - there it is. Crazy.
Somebody needs to get Pottering a girlfriend or whatever. He's going nuts. Who's paying that guy, anyway? Maybe a government job.
But was this the systemd developers at fault or the person who build the installation package?
It sounds more like a lack of configuration with a.deb.
Yea, you need to blame the lackeys that package the masterful creations - not the genius masters of the Linux operating system corrections team who use their superior talents implementing software to realize their glorious vision.
. . . and they made a fortune, by shorting the companies, before they released their reports.
Except not all the reports are hit pieces - they are also reporting companies as undervalued. Unfortunately, they seem to be wrong a lot. Check out, for instance, the report on Demand Media (DMD). Pretty much none of their predictions panned out. The stock price hasn't doubled, the company hasn't gone private, and it's still trading close to the same price as it was last year.
There have been 66 cases reported according to the first link. 66. Out of tens of millions of devices.
This is just a typical case of control freaks in government looking for something else to get their fingers in.
Actually, they are trying to drum up public fear so they can win the lawsuits against their crazy new regulations. Which will basically cause all e-cigs to vanish from the market. Except the ones sold by the big tobacco conglomerates.
You won't see any more innovation or options in e-cigs either. Every component is regulated and banned without a long and expensive approval process. In fact, it will probably be the end of refillable e-cigs and the sale of e-juice. It's going to be too expensive as each and every blend will require a separate application and set of laboratory testing.
This is arguably the worst part of the FDA's new regulations on e-cigs. Even if there are still manufacturers making e-cig batteries, ALL changes will be frozen. So even if the manufacturer discovers a flaw and wants to fix it, they can't without a long and expensive approval process that will delay the update, possibly for years.
66 whole reports?! Why, we need a law immediately! Someone call Congress!
We don't need a law - the FDA has already unilaterally passed a rule that will essentially get rid of the e-cigarette market. Except, of course, for the crappy disposables that Big Tobacco sells at convenience stores.
This only affects Microsoft Accounts and Azure AD, not local Windows accounts.
In Windows 10, for many people your Microsoft Account IS your local Windows account (it's the default). It's much easier for Microsoft to control your computer that way.
And if you have a commitment and they alter the terms you can not accept the change and get out of the commitment for no charge. IIRC some cell phone companies had that happen when they raised a fee a few cents and customers walked away with a phone and no cancellation fee.
To get around that, they leave the "service" price alone, and instead raise one of the "fees" (of some description or another). They claim it's not altering the contract, which only speaks to service price, they had to raise the administrative fee to cover costs.
Which is little more than a recipe for fucking over future generations. Maybe you don't give a rats ass about your children and grandchildren, but I happen to care about mine, and I think, considering we are the dominant species on this planet, that we have a duty to be good stewards, and not just keeping doing bad things out of expediency.
Beyond that, it's already beginning to fuck up a lot of people, and it's only going to get worse.
If you care about your children and grandchildren, then the Imp's course of action is a better one. Don't you think your children and grandchildren will care about their children and grandchildren, and down the line? What about your ancestors 2000 years for now? At what point are they going to be cursing your name for relegating the human race to extinction on a dying rock, by rolling back the capabilities of the human race?
Think of it this way: There are 12 people stuck in a cave. You have water and food for 30 days (maybe 35). OR - you can limit everyone's activity and ration everything and have longer to live. In a cave. Eventually you all die. Wouldn't the better course of action be to use the resources you have and work on digging your way out? Sure, if it fails, you die sooner. But at least there is some chance of survival.
I gave up on fixing Wikipedia errors when I received an official notice warning me about vandalizing a page for fixing errors on it.
Because the editors don't like it. So they tell you it's not an error - it's true. And they have citations. And they' point out that your citations are invalid because WP:CiteRule1 and WP:CredibleSources and so you must be wrong because they can apply WP:Fringe and WP:SourceType does not apply to their article.
FTFA: "Wikipedia is... has a dizzying list of guidelines, principles, and rules that are disproportionately applied across the site."
Yea, that's putting it mildly. None of your corrections were accepted because the editor had a different opinion, and he can dismiss any link or citation with some arbitrary reference to some rule (that references some other rule, that references several other guidelines), whether they are really applicable or not. They'll berate you with that stuff on the Talk pages and if you don't respond appropriately a ban request is easy to get approved.
I can relate to his experience - not in wikipedia, but other forums, including slashdot and LinkedIn. I have found that most people are nice, but there are certain people who become nasty very quickly. Those individuals can easily destroy a discussion. IMO we need to expect civility in online forums - otherwise, why have a forum? People should not make personal attacks - comments should be issue focused. I see a-lot of posts on slashdot that get personal, like "you are an idiot", etc. That is not appropriate - it is childish. IMO, a comment that embeds a personal attack should result in the commenter being banned for awhile at least.
"The thing is if the chip is in the phone and can turned on easily then why not have the option?"
Because it is not such a simple thing. While yes, the broadcom wifi/bt radio does have an FM receiver, the phone itself was never designed for FM reception. So it lacks several required connections (the most important one being the antenna). So it entails more then just activating the fm module, it is not something that can be done on your phone.
That can't be true. I have the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (yea, I know, nobody's heard of it, but it's a good Android smart phone). It came with the "Radio" app, which uses your headphone as the antenna. Scans and plays radio stations just fine.
The absurd rush to legalize marijuana will just add to those numbers.
I seriously doubt that. Lots of people that drink would switch to marijuana instead, and all those issues with alcohol would go away for most of them. Marijuana is a much safer intoxicant. It creates none of the health problems associated with alcohol abuse, and it kills no one, while many people die of alcohol poisoning every year.
Yeah well, I wish they would practice on their side of the road.
That no good if you're too drunk. I mean - there's no telling how many lines you're actually seeing. So, don't try to stay between the lines - just pick one and stick to it.
More people die in traffic accidents over the Easter weekend DRIVING to the coast in South Africa between Johannesburg and Durban than are killed by the cops in the US in a year
Really? 419 people dead from traffic accidents on a single highway on a single weekend? I'm not saying it's wrong, but a lot of your other statistics certainly stretch credibility.
Incidentally, around 143 US police are killed each year in the line of duty.
Most of which are car accidents.
Considering 13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive
About 2/3 of which were suicides.
I think it's a safe assumption that being a cop in the US is a dangerous job
That's only valid if you don't compare it with other jobs. I think the most dangerous right now is logger. It used to be convenience store clerk. Police don't even make the top 50.
Who's supposed to fund the FDA's regulation of meds? It sounds like they're getting user fees, which seems reasonable to me. My friend in the FDA said the FDA would not hesitate to pull approval if they had a reason. (The FDA recognizes darn few things as safe. They recognize a lot of things as safe enough unless and until they get a reason to think otherwise.)
How about the people they are charged to protect, instead of people wanting to make a buck no matter who gets hurt? Don't think that you can get a paycheck from someone and then work AGAINST their interests. Just look at the story of statin drugs and the FDA's ban of red yeast rice. Who was that for?
Don't forget that the vast majority of total health care costs are spent on people over 65. Medicare (and Medicaid, which covers about 30% of the under-65) is basically the biggest payer (insurance company) in the country - other insurance companies follow their lead on charges and covered treatments. It just makes sense. Insurance companies don't just pay whatever health providers charge - they have agreements that set prices. So, yea, doctors charge what they want, but they'll get what the insurance companies pay, as they agreed. That's what "out of network" charges are all about.
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But please. WHY. THE. FUCK. break decades of well-established Unix conventions? Why the actual fuck? I hate the arrogance of the systemd folks who think they are doing everything better. Even Darwin respects Unix conventions more than systemd. And yes, they scrapped sysvinit too. And yes, I still prefer sysvinit.
Well established Unix conventions, like using unencrypted connections (Telnet, UUCP, rlogin etc) that sends password in clear text? Unix was chock full of insecure way of doing things and an unfortunately a lot of this have carried over to Linux with the end result that multi-user Linux security seems to rely on users being nice guys as a basic security measure.
With this change, people can at least ensure that their user run service doesn't DoS the server unintentionally.
No, it doesn't actually fix any of those possible issues at all. It does nothing to prevent them.
Just edit your scripts.
Are you serious? How about you edit my scripts? You broke it, you fix it.
I wish I had mod points, because I just squired milk out of my nose.
Even with the new settings, no user process will be killed on exit/logout if the user have told the systemd not to.
FTFY, jackass. systemd ain't my momma and never will be.
That isn't a problem of course, even with the new systemd defaults. Just use systemd-run --user --scope screen and the process and all other processes started from screen will survive logout.
What the ... ?? Is this a troll? You can't be serious. C'mon - what the hell is this shit? OMG - REALLY? Wow - there it is. Crazy.
Somebody needs to get Pottering a girlfriend or whatever. He's going nuts. Who's paying that guy, anyway? Maybe a government job.
But was this the systemd developers at fault or the person who build the installation package? It sounds more like a lack of configuration with a .deb.
Yea, you need to blame the lackeys that package the masterful creations - not the genius masters of the Linux operating system corrections team who use their superior talents implementing software to realize their glorious vision.
. . . and they made a fortune, by shorting the companies, before they released their reports.
Except not all the reports are hit pieces - they are also reporting companies as undervalued. Unfortunately, they seem to be wrong a lot. Check out, for instance, the report on Demand Media (DMD). Pretty much none of their predictions panned out. The stock price hasn't doubled, the company hasn't gone private, and it's still trading close to the same price as it was last year.
There have been 66 cases reported according to the first link. 66. Out of tens of millions of devices.
This is just a typical case of control freaks in government looking for something else to get their fingers in.
Actually, they are trying to drum up public fear so they can win the lawsuits against their crazy new regulations. Which will basically cause all e-cigs to vanish from the market. Except the ones sold by the big tobacco conglomerates.
The new FDA regulations on e-cigs did NOT ban flavors. It will, however, effectively put every manufacturer out of business with the exception of the big tobacco conglomerates.
You won't see any more innovation or options in e-cigs either. Every component is regulated and banned without a long and expensive approval process. In fact, it will probably be the end of refillable e-cigs and the sale of e-juice. It's going to be too expensive as each and every blend will require a separate application and set of laboratory testing.
This is arguably the worst part of the FDA's new regulations on e-cigs. Even if there are still manufacturers making e-cig batteries, ALL changes will be frozen. So even if the manufacturer discovers a flaw and wants to fix it, they can't without a long and expensive approval process that will delay the update, possibly for years.
Bes' price. Bes' price!
--- Every Chinese marketing / salesperson ever.
66 whole reports?! Why, we need a law immediately! Someone call Congress!
We don't need a law - the FDA has already unilaterally passed a rule that will essentially get rid of the e-cigarette market. Except, of course, for the crappy disposables that Big Tobacco sells at convenience stores.
This only affects Microsoft Accounts and Azure AD, not local Windows accounts.
In Windows 10, for many people your Microsoft Account IS your local Windows account (it's the default). It's much easier for Microsoft to control your computer that way.
And if you have a commitment and they alter the terms you can not accept the change and get out of the commitment for no charge. IIRC some cell phone companies had that happen when they raised a fee a few cents and customers walked away with a phone and no cancellation fee.
To get around that, they leave the "service" price alone, and instead raise one of the "fees" (of some description or another). They claim it's not altering the contract, which only speaks to service price, they had to raise the administrative fee to cover costs.
They seem to be getting away with it, too.
Of course, they have a lot of witless mindless soldiers who they've convinced that climatology is really a communist fantasy
You mean like the United Nations Climate Chief?
AGW, in fact, IS a political clusterfuck enabler.
Which is little more than a recipe for fucking over future generations. Maybe you don't give a rats ass about your children and grandchildren, but I happen to care about mine, and I think, considering we are the dominant species on this planet, that we have a duty to be good stewards, and not just keeping doing bad things out of expediency.
Beyond that, it's already beginning to fuck up a lot of people, and it's only going to get worse.
If you care about your children and grandchildren, then the Imp's course of action is a better one. Don't you think your children and grandchildren will care about their children and grandchildren, and down the line? What about your ancestors 2000 years for now? At what point are they going to be cursing your name for relegating the human race to extinction on a dying rock, by rolling back the capabilities of the human race?
Think of it this way: There are 12 people stuck in a cave. You have water and food for 30 days (maybe 35). OR - you can limit everyone's activity and ration everything and have longer to live. In a cave. Eventually you all die. Wouldn't the better course of action be to use the resources you have and work on digging your way out? Sure, if it fails, you die sooner. But at least there is some chance of survival.
With your plan, there is none.
I gave up on fixing Wikipedia errors when I received an official notice warning me about vandalizing a page for fixing errors on it.
Because the editors don't like it. So they tell you it's not an error - it's true. And they have citations. And they' point out that your citations are invalid because WP:CiteRule1 and WP:CredibleSources and so you must be wrong because they can apply WP:Fringe and WP:SourceType does not apply to their article.
FTFA: "Wikipedia is ... has a dizzying list of guidelines, principles, and rules that are disproportionately applied across the site."
Yea, that's putting it mildly. None of your corrections were accepted because the editor had a different opinion, and he can dismiss any link or citation with some arbitrary reference to some rule (that references some other rule, that references several other guidelines), whether they are really applicable or not. They'll berate you with that stuff on the Talk pages and if you don't respond appropriately a ban request is easy to get approved.
I can relate to his experience - not in wikipedia, but other forums, including slashdot and LinkedIn. I have found that most people are nice, but there are certain people who become nasty very quickly. Those individuals can easily destroy a discussion. IMO we need to expect civility in online forums - otherwise, why have a forum? People should not make personal attacks - comments should be issue focused. I see a-lot of posts on slashdot that get personal, like "you are an idiot", etc. That is not appropriate - it is childish. IMO, a comment that embeds a personal attack should result in the commenter being banned for awhile at least.
You're an idiot.
"The thing is if the chip is in the phone and can turned on easily then why not have the option?" Because it is not such a simple thing. While yes, the broadcom wifi/bt radio does have an FM receiver, the phone itself was never designed for FM reception. So it lacks several required connections (the most important one being the antenna). So it entails more then just activating the fm module, it is not something that can be done on your phone.
That can't be true. I have the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (yea, I know, nobody's heard of it, but it's a good Android smart phone). It came with the "Radio" app, which uses your headphone as the antenna. Scans and plays radio stations just fine.
The absurd rush to legalize marijuana will just add to those numbers.
I seriously doubt that. Lots of people that drink would switch to marijuana instead, and all those issues with alcohol would go away for most of them. Marijuana is a much safer intoxicant. It creates none of the health problems associated with alcohol abuse, and it kills no one, while many people die of alcohol poisoning every year.
Yeah well, I wish they would practice on their side of the road.
That no good if you're too drunk. I mean - there's no telling how many lines you're actually seeing. So, don't try to stay between the lines - just pick one and stick to it.
Neither grammar rules nor mathematics have any racial or gender bias to them.
Bull. The entire SAT is completely racist. It favors those with white privilege.
More people die in traffic accidents over the Easter weekend DRIVING to the coast in South Africa between Johannesburg and Durban than are killed by the cops in the US in a year
Really? 419 people dead from traffic accidents on a single highway on a single weekend? I'm not saying it's wrong, but a lot of your other statistics certainly stretch credibility.
Incidentally, around 143 US police are killed each year in the line of duty.
Most of which are car accidents.
Considering 13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive
About 2/3 of which were suicides.
I think it's a safe assumption that being a cop in the US is a dangerous job
That's only valid if you don't compare it with other jobs. I think the most dangerous right now is logger. It used to be convenience store clerk. Police don't even make the top 50.
Who's supposed to fund the FDA's regulation of meds? It sounds like they're getting user fees, which seems reasonable to me. My friend in the FDA said the FDA would not hesitate to pull approval if they had a reason. (The FDA recognizes darn few things as safe. They recognize a lot of things as safe enough unless and until they get a reason to think otherwise.)
How about the people they are charged to protect, instead of people wanting to make a buck no matter who gets hurt? Don't think that you can get a paycheck from someone and then work AGAINST their interests. Just look at the story of statin drugs and the FDA's ban of red yeast rice. Who was that for?
Don't forget that the vast majority of total health care costs are spent on people over 65. Medicare (and Medicaid, which covers about 30% of the under-65) is basically the biggest payer (insurance company) in the country - other insurance companies follow their lead on charges and covered treatments. It just makes sense. Insurance companies don't just pay whatever health providers charge - they have agreements that set prices. So, yea, doctors charge what they want, but they'll get what the insurance companies pay, as they agreed. That's what "out of network" charges are all about.