What seems even more stupid is that some OS's seem to think the last 4 characters of a filename convey some magical meanings -- like if it should be executable; or what application is should magically launch when clicked.
I'm afraid of the ***lack*** of fragmentation in Android.
I believe that Linux's success is directly tied to it's fragmentation.
When a early Linux distro is hard to use (mailing lists), a much easer one comes out (Slackware). When a different Linux vendor goes insane (SCO Linux), other vendors can remane sane. When a different linux goes expensive (RHEL), affordable forks spring up (CentOS).
Fragmentation is what keeps Linux safe both-from-and-for things like systemd. If systemd turns out great - fragmentation is what allowed early adopters to use it so it gained traction. If systemd turns out to be horrible, fragmentation is why other linux distros will survive that experiment.
TL/DR: We need more fragmentation. The mobile world would better if I could choose to run Ubuntu-Android, Fedora-Android, Samsung-Android or Google-Android on my phone.
attempt to get rid of the penny was a conspiracy to drive up prices.
Well - it kinda is!
Often people rant about wanting a "gold standard" for currency -- though that's a bit foolish because gold is rare enough that it's pretty easy for the richest banks to manipulate prices.
What the penny could give us instead (if they allow people to melt them) is a *zinc standard* for our currency! Where the value of a dollar is tied to an amount of real-work (the amount of work to mine and refine zinc) -- a mineral common enough that it'd be harder to manipulate than gold.
The main way the math falls apart is that the value of money isn't linear.
The difference between nothing vs winning (or losing) $1 doesn't change most people's lives at all.
The difference between nothing vs winning $10,000,000 changes most people's lives a lot.
The difference between winning $10,000,000 and winning $100,000,000 doesn't change most people's very much. (In either of those cases, they can do whatever they want, and the rest of the money is just some number in some online video game called Schwab or Fidelity).
With a non-linear value curve like this -- lotteries actually make sense -- they're win/win for both sides.
.... I don't want people to get comfortable with people thinking policies/bills/etc are the right way to protect privacy.
Far better, for privacy, if technological solutions (email encryption) protected the privacy of email.
If it's just protected with bills like this, it does nothing to stop programs like the DoD/NSA's "collect everything" projects; and from there it's only a small step for one agency to assist parallel reconstruction to get around the warrant.
Better for everyone's privacy if the bill stated "You have no expectation of privacy for unencrypted email. Any unencrypted email is free for anyone - law enforcements, ad-agencies, spammers - to read. If you want it private, encrypt it.".
The tools exist (GPG, S/MIME). It's just that no-one uses them because they trust policies to protect them instead. If the policies would change, every corporation would insist on encrypted emails by default -- and the email tool vendors would quickly make that the easy/default option.
Personally I think they jumped the shark at Perl 5.
My favorite Perl by far was Perl 3 -- when it was a better awk+sed.
Now every language seems to want to follow the C++ trend of moving away from it's original strengths ---- and glomming on some really bad object-oriented model on itself during the late 1990's ---- and glomming on some really bad almost-but-not-quite-functional programming features during the 2010's.
Seems the programming world would be a better place if the tools focused on their strengts, and didn't all try to be some "oooh, I'm object oriented too", "oooh, I'm functional too" game.
Ironic thing is that I probably would have bought a Surface RT if they unlocked the boot loader.
It looked like a nice tablet. I just couldn't stand the OS.
And (rightfully, it seeems) figured it'd turn into abandonware just like all the other alternative-CPU-windows's from history. Note that Windows used to run on DEC Alpha, Tandem MIPS, Itanic, etc.
why get excited for having a button for ctrl-v? do you also have a button for ctrl-c and ctrl-x? you make no sense.
At least here, "copy" (I assume that's what you mean by ctrl-c) happens automatically when you select a region of text by clicking and dragging the mouse. In that sense, the left button *is* the button you're looking for.
And "delete whatever is selected" (is that what you mean by ctrl-x) can be done by pressing 'delete' -- or if you're goint to replace it with something else, just typing that something else -- so it doesn't need a button or keyboard shortcut.
If Microsoft would unlock the boot loader now, heck, even I (who dislike most microsoft products except their keyboards and mice) would probably be happy to buy a Surface RT.
Seriously - I like the form-factor of the device - and the price. The only thing that stopped me from buying one when they came out was the OS.
Request for Microsoft --- now that you're abandoning it --- please unlock the boot loader.
It's not a billion dollar opportunity so long as people think email privacy is secured adequately by policies and legislation.
I think the best thing in the world for internet privacy/security would be if the laws were changed to state: "You have no expectation of privacy in any plain text email (other other communication) on the internet. Any such content can be freely used by your ISP, email hosting service, governments, ad-agencies, spammers, etc. If you want your email private, encrypt it.".
With such laws, it would be a billion dollar opportunity overnight, and the internet would be much safer for it.
But instead, corporations trust policies and laws to keep email private - even though those policies can and do change on a whim (or a Patriot act).
Totally agree encryption (PGP/GPG, S/MIME) is the right answer here.
Instead of relying on policies/laws to keep email confidential, I wonder if the internet would be a much safer place if the laws said that any unencrypted email has no expectation of privacy.
If you want anything private in email, encrypt it.
And if it were widely thought of that way, corporations would insist on encrypted emails, so the email client vendors would make encryption easy instead of the pain in the neck it is today.
Often I wish the E stood for English, usually that thought occurs when I am reading status reports and documentation from Engineers.
If you're having difficulty communicating with Engineers and part of your job is reading their status reports and documentation, I'd argue that the problem is on your side.
Their job is to do engineering well. Your job sounds like translating between their attempt to translate technical nuances into stuff that upper management can understand. Perhaps you need to spend more time learning more about what they do.
None of that speaks to why systemd needs to suck in everything under the sun that has a server mode (like the gimp and open office examples above).
And just because something's launched often doesn't mean it has to be sucked into systemd. Angry Birds is launched on Linux more often than most stuff the systemd guys play with -- but that doesn't mean all games need insane dependancies on an init system.
Your container example seems to be taking the wrong approach too.
Lightweight containers like Docker seem to suggest it's best to run a single service within a container --- so the last thing such a system needs an init system -- let alone the most bloated init system in the world. A it turns out, it's quite a pain in the neck to run systemd in a docker container.
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What seems even more stupid is that some OS's seem to think the last 4 characters of a filename convey some magical meanings -- like if it should be executable; or what application is should magically launch when clicked.
Who's Afraid of Android Fragmentation?
I'm afraid of the ***lack*** of fragmentation in Android.
I believe that Linux's success is directly tied to it's fragmentation.
When a early Linux distro is hard to use (mailing lists), a much easer one comes out (Slackware). When a different Linux vendor goes insane (SCO Linux), other vendors can remane sane. When a different linux goes expensive (RHEL), affordable forks spring up (CentOS).
Fragmentation is what keeps Linux safe both-from-and-for things like systemd. If systemd turns out great - fragmentation is what allowed early adopters to use it so it gained traction. If systemd turns out to be horrible, fragmentation is why other linux distros will survive that experiment.
TL/DR: We need more fragmentation. The mobile world would better if I could choose to run Ubuntu-Android, Fedora-Android, Samsung-Android or Google-Android on my phone.
well considering that minimum wage for yearly is something around $22,283 then yeah 28k is a bit expensive
Ah - so instead of deporting them, it'd be cheaper to just hire them :-).
attempt to get rid of the penny was a conspiracy to drive up prices.
Well - it kinda is!
Often people rant about wanting a "gold standard" for currency -- though that's a bit foolish because gold is rare enough that it's pretty easy for the richest banks to manipulate prices.
What the penny could give us instead (if they allow people to melt them) is a *zinc standard* for our currency! Where the value of a dollar is tied to an amount of real-work (the amount of work to mine and refine zinc) -- a mineral common enough that it'd be harder to manipulate than gold.
The main way the math falls apart is that the value of money isn't linear.
The difference between nothing vs winning (or losing) $1 doesn't change most people's lives at all.
The difference between nothing vs winning $10,000,000 changes most people's lives a lot.
The difference between winning $10,000,000 and winning $100,000,000 doesn't change most people's very much. (In either of those cases, they can do whatever they want, and the rest of the money is just some number in some online video game called Schwab or Fidelity).
With a non-linear value curve like this -- lotteries actually make sense -- they're win/win for both sides.
systemd
Lol - I see this article is tagged 'sodomy'.
Is that the cool way to pronounce 'systemd' these days?
Far better, for privacy, if technological solutions (email encryption) protected the privacy of email.
If it's just protected with bills like this, it does nothing to stop programs like the DoD/NSA's "collect everything" projects; and from there it's only a small step for one agency to assist parallel reconstruction to get around the warrant.
Better for everyone's privacy if the bill stated "You have no expectation of privacy for unencrypted email. Any unencrypted email is free for anyone - law enforcements, ad-agencies, spammers - to read. If you want it private, encrypt it.".
The tools exist (GPG, S/MIME). It's just that no-one uses them because they trust policies to protect them instead. If the policies would change, every corporation would insist on encrypted emails by default -- and the email tool vendors would quickly make that the easy/default option.
Even less surprising, considering that they're a registered corporation; with a big business in merchandising.
And most corporations use VPNs, etc.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11...
Personally I think they jumped the shark at Perl 5. My favorite Perl by far was Perl 3 -- when it was a better awk+sed. Now every language seems to want to follow the C++ trend of moving away from it's original strengths ---- and glomming on some really bad object-oriented model on itself during the late 1990's ---- and glomming on some really bad almost-but-not-quite-functional programming features during the 2010's. Seems the programming world would be a better place if the tools focused on their strengts, and didn't all try to be some "oooh, I'm object oriented too", "oooh, I'm functional too" game.
Ironic thing is that I probably would have bought a Surface RT if they unlocked the boot loader.
It looked like a nice tablet. I just couldn't stand the OS.
And (rightfully, it seeems) figured it'd turn into abandonware just like all the other alternative-CPU-windows's from history. Note that Windows used to run on DEC Alpha, Tandem MIPS, Itanic, etc.
Annoying how top comments are all stupid jokes, so I'll hijack it. It's already known that âoeBallooningâ Spiders Use Electrostatic Forces To Generate Lift
one compiler is the standard for Windows
That sounds like the source of the portability issues right there.
Perhaps that OS vendor could encourage more complier writers to support compliers for that platform.
why get excited for having a button for ctrl-v? do you also have a button for ctrl-c and ctrl-x? you make no sense.
At least here, "copy" (I assume that's what you mean by ctrl-c) happens automatically when you select a region of text by clicking and dragging the mouse. In that sense, the left button *is* the button you're looking for.
And "delete whatever is selected" (is that what you mean by ctrl-x) can be done by pressing 'delete' -- or if you're goint to replace it with something else, just typing that something else -- so it doesn't need a button or keyboard shortcut.
NOT portable .... Forget about building on Windows using Microsoft's C compiler.
Just because one compiler for one platform fails to support a popular C extension doesn't mean the library isn't portable.
You can always choose to complie on that platform using one of the compliers that *does* support the extension.
Seriously - I like the form-factor of the device - and the price. The only thing that stopped me from buying one when they came out was the OS.
Request for Microsoft --- now that you're abandoning it --- please unlock the boot loader.
that is prohibited by law
s/is/was/
This proposed law changes that.
Most VPNs are corporate.
I imagine corporations will fight back legally if/when their employees start getting hacked by the FBI.
I think the best thing in the world for internet privacy/security would be if the laws were changed to state: "You have no expectation of privacy in any plain text email (other other communication) on the internet. Any such content can be freely used by your ISP, email hosting service, governments, ad-agencies, spammers, etc. If you want your email private, encrypt it.".
With such laws, it would be a billion dollar opportunity overnight, and the internet would be much safer for it.
But instead, corporations trust policies and laws to keep email private - even though those policies can and do change on a whim (or a Patriot act).
Instead of relying on policies/laws to keep email confidential, I wonder if the internet would be a much safer place if the laws said that any unencrypted email has no expectation of privacy.
Unencrypted email should be thought of as more like a post-card -- where governments routinely scan them all for law enforcement.
If you want anything private in email, encrypt it.
And if it were widely thought of that way, corporations would insist on encrypted emails, so the email client vendors would make encryption easy instead of the pain in the neck it is today.
Because that would mostly hurt poor innocent people, and make more people hate the US.
If instead they could provide those people with reliable water, food, etc, it would become harder to radicalize them.
Is a gullible idiot
So wonder how many of the GuantÃnamo confessions worked this way.
Often I wish the E stood for English, usually that thought occurs when I am reading status reports and documentation from Engineers.
If you're having difficulty communicating with Engineers and part of your job is reading their status reports and documentation, I'd argue that the problem is on your side.
Their job is to do engineering well. Your job sounds like translating between their attempt to translate technical nuances into stuff that upper management can understand. Perhaps you need to spend more time learning more about what they do.
I half agree....
Agree that systemd's pretty much going to make Linux into more of a small niche product than it ever way.
But this seems to go far beyond RedHat --- with systemd advocates pressuring to Extend/Embrace/you-know-the-rest Linux from many sides.
And just because something's launched often doesn't mean it has to be sucked into systemd. Angry Birds is launched on Linux more often than most stuff the systemd guys play with -- but that doesn't mean all games need insane dependancies on an init system.
Your container example seems to be taking the wrong approach too.
Lightweight containers like Docker seem to suggest it's best to run a single service within a container --- so the last thing such a system needs an init system -- let alone the most bloated init system in the world. A it turns out, it's quite a pain in the neck to run systemd in a docker container.
Why would LibreOffice
You do realize OpenOffice does run in a server-mode.
It's useful for doing thtings like batch-processing word documents.
Same for Gimp: " This command will start a server, which reads and executes Script-Fu (Scheme) statements you send him via a specified port. ".
...ever be dependent on systemd?
I don't understand why 90% of the crap systemd's trying to suck in (like networking). Yet the systemd guys continue to glom everything in there.