The *ONLY* reason to believe that you would lose when you otherwise believe you have a legitimate case against somebody is if you actually doubt the legitimacy of your case in the first place... in which case you do not actually sue, which is the entire point.
Or if you believe they have better lawyers with better connections.
You seem to believe that the legitimacy of a case has any bearing on the outcome, thats pretty naive.
The problem is not as so much as systemd being the "default". The problem is in upgrades or installations, being forcefully "upgraded" or having systemd installed without recourse or choice. Lets see if pinning will keep on working in Debian 10...
I haven't seen any problems with things getting 'unpinned' so far, it works fine. It is possible Debian 10 may have no sysvinit at all but hey by that time I hope my network will be mainly docker containers and I won't have to worry about the hosts so much.
Its a bunch of unstructured shell scripts with little in the way of dependency management.
its a bit like the Debian pre-inst/post-inst system used in the dpkg packages, which are very primitive compared to the rpm format. For example, in rpm you can get a list of all the permissions and ownerships of the files installed, what they are supposed to be and this comes from the package management system itself, 'for free'. To figure this out in dpkg its a shell script debugging problem. I imagine that the systemd people see sysvinit in a similar way and that they believe they can do better. Time will tell.
One major bug affecting Debian 8 is how systemd is the default init system, and it's not at all easy to switch to another init system (like sysvinit, or OpenRC, or one of the many other alternatives).
So how is programming different from any other subject a child learns at school? Or do you believe that a child should have had prior experience with writing or math or sports before they choose to have it taught to them at school?
Should it be compulsory for every student to learn to play a musical instrument?
I hate programming/coding. Trying to think how to write a program makes me feel disoriented and nauseous.
In the various 'autism' tests I've done I've come out as massively 'heteronormative', this may be connected.
And I certainly wouldn't want to force my kid to learn to code, especially not as young as 4th grade. I'd find that almost as disturbing as forcing him to do religious studies or gender studies.
Don't make coding compulsory, it suits a particular kind of mind. First let the mind develop, find what it likes to think about, then get the kid to learn into those areas.
Some time ago I worked with a Microsoft 'Threat management gateway' appliance. I started trying to get it to work with IPv6. Turned out it couldn't. Turned out that Microsoft decided it was too much effort to upgrade the TMG for IPv6... because it was scheduled to be cancelled.
I'd be looking for a replacement for visual studio right about now.
When companies have outages like this and don't want to talk about it it's usually a DDoS.
They don't want to brag they can be DDoSed nor do they want to help pump up the group who did it. They don't want to give any info which is feedback about how well it worked either so the attackers can tune their attacks or gauge their chance of success if it was a dry run.
Its like dealing with misbehaving toddlers. You don't tell them off, you don't make a fuss, you don't punish them. Thats all attention.
The only way to make it not worth their while to misbehave is to completely ignore them. Once they've grown up a bit you can use other strategies but for people who are, for all intents and purposes, gigantic toddlers, you have to just ignore.
Why does it make any difference where the tracking occurs for the BASICS as said above. Your arse, thigh or wrist make no difference for steps. Yes absolutely if you are the percentage of the population that uses the advanced features like heart rate.
Because convenience. Having a tiny, unobtrusive device on the wrist trumps a phone, especially when you have a large phone like an iphone 6 or nexus 6.
Cue flurry of handgun restriction bills in the near future.
Well, obviously we need a terrorist computer science profession gun control list.
We can't have all these unbalanced, introverted, jealous, code stealing folks out there running around able to buy guns in the US.
I mean, I'm surprised it took THIS long to bring this subject up, considering all the many gun related killing comp sci folks commit annually.....ESPECIALLY in the University Systems where tenure is at stake!!
If only the professor had had a gun to defend himself with! Surely carrying a gun should be compulsory in the USA... no one is safe what with all those lunatics walking around with guns!
It should be a capital penalty on some of those crimes, especially when it comes to ID theft for profit.
Before the terrifying prospect of punishment is going to make a difference you have to first increase the prospect of actually being caught. Otherwise the threat of punishment is just whining.
we don't want to live in a retrograde world where "we have to freeze population growth."
We don't?
Because I sure as hell do. When I was born, human population was almost exactly 3 billion. Now it is 7.2 billion... no, wait, that's wrong already. Last time I looked was months ago. 7.4 billion now, per wikipedia.
Too many humans IS the main problem. Even if you address the energy problems, what about all the other problems caused by human over-population?
And yet there are large tracts of the planet which are not uninhabitable and yet have very low population densities. There is plenty of land, plenty of potentially arable land, plenty of fresh water. Yet it isn't used because the distribution of humans on planet Earth is extremely uneven and concentrated into pockets. So, looking at these densely populated locations with their food supply and fresh water problems you can get the mistaken impression that we are overpopulating the planet.
Depictions of Muhammed are not necessarily an insult to Islam; only in some groups is it seen that way. Iran, for instance, has a long history of paintings of him. Moreover, even if it provokes outrage in those people, it's not designed to incite hatred or anger against them.
Germany specifically outlawed Nazi imagery, to the best of my knowledge, including satirical uses. In addition, even most satirists in Germany might be unlikely to use it, since it's still kind of a touchy subject there. Whether or not satire should be allowed is a different conversation (I personally think all the hate speech stuff is stupid, and satire is an excellent tool against bigots), but in France it is covered, while in Germany it isn't always.
I think hate speech law are stupid too, what I guess I'm trying to get at is a reductio ad absurdum on hate speech laws.
I'm not saying Charlie Hebdo really is hate speech, which I don't think even exists. I'm saying that couching such laws to allow eg Charlie Hebdo's depictions of Muhammed or others depictions of Muhammed eg as a pedophile, rapist, etc as non-hate-speech is absurd.
You can't have your cake and eat it too; you can't say that what counts as hate speech for, eg Muslims, doesn't count as hate speech for, eg Donald Trump, or Germans wanting to make a satirical magazine about the Nazis where they make cartoon representations of EU politicians as Nazi characters. The law has to be impartial. If you try to make the hate speech laws truly impartial they become very clearly absurd.
one of the great achievements of modern society is that we have developed a culture that shows some level of consideration to even the weakest members of society.
some level of consideration to even the weakest members of society.
I'd say our biggest problem is that we have shown too much consideration to those who choose to be offended and upset by even the most mundane of things. Reality hardens an individual. While we may not all be ready to be soldiers on the front lines, I would think it reasonable to expect a human being to be able to maintain some degree of sanity after being exposed to some of the darker truths of this world.
Nanny state needs people to be raised soft. Otherwise they wouldn't need nanny state. As it is, in these Western countries where grown adults are as naive and pathetic as toddlers, nanny state has actually come to be necessary; without nanny state they'd go 'Lord of the Flies' in a week and be worshiping pigs heads on sticks.
I think it really depends on how those laws are worded; most, I think, cover insults to groups of people but not insults to specific individuals unless it's on the basis of their membership in a group. Something that is offensive because it targets a historical person may not fall under that law. Furthermore, satire is often exempted from censorship on those grounds.
Insult to a historical figure of extreme importance to a group of people, like ohhh I don't know maybe the *founder* of that group should definitely be seen as an insult to the whole group of people.
I don't think satire should be an excuse otherwise there'd be satirical use of the swastika and imagery of Hitler in some German equivalent of Charlie Hebdo. To the best of my limited knowledge there isn't any such equivalent, and any attempt to do so would result in a visit from the police.
So its ok in France but not in Germany? Not sure about that, doesn't France also have laws against Nazi imagery etc?
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The *ONLY* reason to believe that you would lose when you otherwise believe you have a legitimate case against somebody is if you actually doubt the legitimacy of your case in the first place... in which case you do not actually sue, which is the entire point.
Or if you believe they have better lawyers with better connections.
You seem to believe that the legitimacy of a case has any bearing on the outcome, thats pretty naive.
Surprise there:
Judges in their majority are the same law major leeches with a lot of professional solidarity.
Remember a federal court justice who acquited his fellow frat member of murdering his own wife?
Remember this guy represents himself in court. So the lawyers aren't getting their cut. Thats probably why the judges are against him, no kickbacks.
The problem is not as so much as systemd being the "default". The problem is in upgrades or installations, being forcefully "upgraded" or having systemd installed without recourse or choice. Lets see if pinning will keep on working in Debian 10...
I haven't seen any problems with things getting 'unpinned' so far, it works fine. It is possible Debian 10 may have no sysvinit at all but hey by that time I hope my network will be mainly docker containers and I won't have to worry about the hosts so much.
honest question, what's wrong with sysvinit?
Its a bunch of unstructured shell scripts with little in the way of dependency management.
its a bit like the Debian pre-inst/post-inst system used in the dpkg packages, which are very primitive compared to the rpm format. For example, in rpm you can get a list of all the permissions and ownerships of the files installed, what they are supposed to be and this comes from the package management system itself, 'for free'. To figure this out in dpkg its a shell script debugging problem. I imagine that the systemd people see sysvinit in a similar way and that they believe they can do better. Time will tell.
systemvinit is far from perfect, especially from the point of view of many maintainers, so it can equally be called a bug plan and simple.
But its imperfections are very well understood. That counts for a LOT.
One major bug affecting Debian 8 is how systemd is the default init system, and it's not at all easy to switch to another init system (like sysvinit, or OpenRC, or one of the many other alternatives).
Its very easy to remove systemd from Debian 8
http://without-systemd.org/wik...
I do this ALL the time, never have problems.
So how is programming different from any other subject a child learns at school?
Or do you believe that a child should have had prior experience with writing or math or sports before they choose to have it taught to them at school?
Should it be compulsory for every student to learn to play a musical instrument?
I hate programming/coding. Trying to think how to write a program makes me feel disoriented and nauseous.
In the various 'autism' tests I've done I've come out as massively 'heteronormative', this may be connected.
And I certainly wouldn't want to force my kid to learn to code, especially not as young as 4th grade. I'd find that almost as disturbing as forcing him to do religious studies or gender studies.
Don't make coding compulsory, it suits a particular kind of mind. First let the mind develop, find what it likes to think about, then get the kid to learn into those areas.
We don't want to do the work.
Its probably going to be dropped.
Some time ago I worked with a Microsoft 'Threat management gateway' appliance. I started trying to get it to work with IPv6. Turned out it couldn't. Turned out that Microsoft decided it was too much effort to upgrade the TMG for IPv6... because it was scheduled to be cancelled.
I'd be looking for a replacement for visual studio right about now.
Spoken like a true modern parent.
So what are you going to do? Indulge them? Encourage the behaviour? Punishment isn't a deterrent; its encouragement.
When companies have outages like this and don't want to talk about it it's usually a DDoS.
They don't want to brag they can be DDoSed nor do they want to help pump up the group who did it. They don't want to give any info which is feedback about how well it worked either so the attackers can tune their attacks or gauge their chance of success if it was a dry run.
Its like dealing with misbehaving toddlers. You don't tell them off, you don't make a fuss, you don't punish them. Thats all attention.
The only way to make it not worth their while to misbehave is to completely ignore them. Once they've grown up a bit you can use other strategies but for people who are, for all intents and purposes, gigantic toddlers, you have to just ignore.
UM if you want to be like that.
http://sprigs.com/banjees-armb...
I'd find that too uncomfortable to sleep with it on. Small device on the wrist.
Why does it make any difference where the tracking occurs for the BASICS as said above. Your arse, thigh or wrist make no difference for steps. Yes absolutely if you are the percentage of the population that uses the advanced features like heart rate.
Because convenience. Having a tiny, unobtrusive device on the wrist trumps a phone, especially when you have a large phone like an iphone 6 or nexus 6.
Fitness trackers do one thing really well.
Taking advantage of the fact that most people are unaware that for the basics they are no better than your phone.
Yeah, I mean you can totally just strap your phone to your wrist.
Indeed. Love the guy, and there are other seriously high flying theorists who entertain the idea, but the notion that a classical computer could simulate reality is nevertheless rather far fetched.
At any rate, there is no value in the notion, unless you can derive some theory from it, that'll allow for an experimental test.
Heres an experimental test; we all stop doing anything entertaining. If we make our 'ratings' drop we'll get cancelled and then we'll know.
Sounded like growing dog balls on a petri dish to me. Can you clarify on "polycultural"?
Food inspired by many cultures. In this case Indian, Italian, Asian. Also colorful and 'chromatic'.
Synergising canine gonads into a polycultural chromatic win-win narrative doesn't mean anything to anyone, anywhere.
I assumed it was curried dog testicles in an italian marinara sauce served on hokkien noodles.
Well, obviously we need a terrorist computer science profession gun control list.
We can't have all these unbalanced, introverted, jealous, code stealing folks out there running around able to buy guns in the US.
I mean, I'm surprised it took THIS long to bring this subject up, considering all the many gun related killing comp sci folks commit annually.....ESPECIALLY in the University Systems where tenure is at stake!!
If only the professor had had a gun to defend himself with! Surely carrying a gun should be compulsory in the USA... no one is safe what with all those lunatics walking around with guns!
The legal system hasn't caught up with them.
It should be a capital penalty on some of those crimes, especially when it comes to ID theft for profit.
Before the terrifying prospect of punishment is going to make a difference you have to first increase the prospect of actually being caught. Otherwise the threat of punishment is just whining.
By the time you ship a batch of processors from Mars, it will be outdated by the time it gets to Earth :-)
No need to ship the processors from Mars to Earth!
The thing with Mars is its cold, so its an ideal place for data centers
"You don't want to live in a retrograde world where we have to freeze population growth."
Does he have any concept that the planet is effectively a closed system? He just expects the population to continue to grow unchecked?
But isn't continuous, unchecked growth the very basis of capitalism???
we don't want to live in a retrograde world where "we have to freeze population growth."
We don't?
Because I sure as hell do. When I was born, human population was almost exactly 3 billion. Now it is 7.2 billion... no, wait, that's wrong already. Last time I looked was months ago. 7.4 billion now, per wikipedia.
Too many humans IS the main problem. Even if you address the energy problems, what about all the other problems caused by human over-population?
And yet there are large tracts of the planet which are not uninhabitable and yet have very low population densities. There is plenty of land, plenty of potentially arable land, plenty of fresh water. Yet it isn't used because the distribution of humans on planet Earth is extremely uneven and concentrated into pockets. So, looking at these densely populated locations with their food supply and fresh water problems you can get the mistaken impression that we are overpopulating the planet.
Depictions of Muhammed are not necessarily an insult to Islam; only in some groups is it seen that way. Iran, for instance, has a long history of paintings of him. Moreover, even if it provokes outrage in those people, it's not designed to incite hatred or anger against them.
Germany specifically outlawed Nazi imagery, to the best of my knowledge, including satirical uses. In addition, even most satirists in Germany might be unlikely to use it, since it's still kind of a touchy subject there. Whether or not satire should be allowed is a different conversation (I personally think all the hate speech stuff is stupid, and satire is an excellent tool against bigots), but in France it is covered, while in Germany it isn't always.
I think hate speech law are stupid too, what I guess I'm trying to get at is a reductio ad absurdum on hate speech laws.
I'm not saying Charlie Hebdo really is hate speech, which I don't think even exists. I'm saying that couching such laws to allow eg Charlie Hebdo's depictions of Muhammed or others depictions of Muhammed eg as a pedophile, rapist, etc as non-hate-speech is absurd.
You can't have your cake and eat it too; you can't say that what counts as hate speech for, eg Muslims, doesn't count as hate speech for, eg Donald Trump, or Germans wanting to make a satirical magazine about the Nazis where they make cartoon representations of EU politicians as Nazi characters.
The law has to be impartial.
If you try to make the hate speech laws truly impartial they become very clearly absurd.
one of the great achievements of modern society is that we have developed a culture that shows some level of consideration to even the weakest members of society.
some level of consideration to even the weakest members of society.
I'd say our biggest problem is that we have shown too much consideration to those who choose to be offended and upset by even the most mundane of things. Reality hardens an individual. While we may not all be ready to be soldiers on the front lines, I would think it reasonable to expect a human being to be able to maintain some degree of sanity after being exposed to some of the darker truths of this world.
Nanny state needs people to be raised soft. Otherwise they wouldn't need nanny state. As it is, in these Western countries where grown adults are as naive and pathetic as toddlers, nanny state has actually come to be necessary; without nanny state they'd go 'Lord of the Flies' in a week and be worshiping pigs heads on sticks.
I think it really depends on how those laws are worded; most, I think, cover insults to groups of people but not insults to specific individuals unless it's on the basis of their membership in a group. Something that is offensive because it targets a historical person may not fall under that law. Furthermore, satire is often exempted from censorship on those grounds.
Insult to a historical figure of extreme importance to a group of people, like ohhh I don't know maybe the *founder* of that group should definitely be seen as an insult to the whole group of people.
I don't think satire should be an excuse otherwise there'd be satirical use of the swastika and imagery of Hitler in some German equivalent of Charlie Hebdo. To the best of my limited knowledge there isn't any such equivalent, and any attempt to do so would result in a visit from the police.
So its ok in France but not in Germany? Not sure about that, doesn't France also have laws against Nazi imagery etc?