performance - in what way is Windows 7/Server 2k8R2 slow? Server seems fine, but Windows 7 is a PIG if you are actually doing anything. As soon as your process allocates most of the available memory all of Window's fat UI stuff keep the system paging things in and out like crazy! There are ways fix it, but the system is not configured that way out of the box and all in all its harder to make the system behave well than it was are XPSp2+, most Linux distributions and OS X.
efficient usage of system resources = How does 7/R2 fail to use systems resources in a efficient way? See above
stability - I can't seam to get my systems to have stability issues, how do I reproduce this? Fair enough its solid
file system - What is wrong with NTFS as implemented by 7/R2? Nothing is wrong with it
decouple GUI from core - Has already been done. Server Core AHAHAH you are kidding right! You realize all that happens is the shell is set to cmd.exe, well ok a few other things happen but for the most part that is it, all the GDI and every all component of the GUI layer is still there. They big difference is they have command line utilities now that enable you to get all the settings you would needed the Explorer shell for previously.
decouple apps from core - Which apps? ???
simple remote access - RDP and other methods are already built in. check
get rid of the sick registry - In what way is it sick? Its opaque mainly; and the efficiency gains of a binary configuration storage system don't make sense on modern machines. Even MS knows this hence DotNets aggressive encouragement of storing things in app.conf XML files.
customization - In what ways? no real problems here honestly
documentation - What needs to be improved? I have to agree here to, Windows is probably the best document platform in existence.
adhere to common open standards - Which standards? They have been improving at this to the point its not an issue anymore
lower hardware requirements - It can run on very expensive systems. Exactly how low are you talking about? There is NO good reason why client windows can't run on an Netbook with a gig of ram, but it won't comfortably at all. Again Its mostly the shell.
better modularization - Explain this please. who knows what the poster was thinking
remove unneeded services/bloatware - Which ones are you talking about? I think more should be OFF by default
There's really no reason microsoft couldn't take a bsd-licensed OS and modify it as Apple (via NeXT) did and end up with a winner on their hands
There is a reason. That reason (I am typing this on Slackware Linux BTW) is that the Windows NT kernel and the Executive for the matter is one of the most modern and best designed platforms in wide use. They don't need take a BSD licensed OS or anything else for that matter and port win32 to it. What they need to do is first FIX their libraries which is where all the vulnerabilities always are. Second they need make better and correct use of what are actually very strong, reliable, and finer grained security capabilities than exist elsewhere, which are in many cases not exposed to end users.
Architecturally most of WIndow's problems are in the upper layers. The good news is from a design standpoint these are the simplest to fix, the bad new is from a political customer acceptance stand point these are probably the hardest to fix. Apples problem was completely different it was their underlying platform that was unworkable so finding a replacement and migrating their user land to it was a good call. Microsoft's problem is their user land and simply putting it on *BSD won't make it more secure or stable, actually it might make it less.
Right on I am getting real tired of "I run X" where X is most of Linux therefor I am secure. That attitude alone tells me you are probably making big mistakes all over the place. Arrogance does that. Its true people writing those comments are probably safer than Joe Public with his OEM crap ware laden Windows XP installation, out of date virus defs, and default Windows firewall configuration, 3000 never applied updates waiting, and logged in as an Administrator, but that is pretty low bar to be above!
I do IT security for a living, here is a hint. Whatever software you are using take steps we all read about, firewall, antivirus if that makes sense for your platform, don't elevate permissions when your don't have to, keep your box update, and after you have done all those things continuously check to make sure you are still doing them and above all use common sense at all times, always think before you click!
I am not buying the idea that the most advanced nation state the earth has even seen would pay farmers to grow surpluses of grain and then literally destroy the a portion of the harvest to support prices. Oh wait that happens...
There was a Kids in the Hall sketch that addressed the issue of why they come and probe. The punch line was that intergalactic anal probing puts allot of people to work...
Well, I actually have done some volunteer work teaching CompSci to HS students and yes its a great way to make a difference. I do think that schools should relax the rules on needed education certificates and such to teach no core subjects at least at the HS level. There are lots of good industry people that would like to teach for a some years and have great experience to offer students. There are lots of young people that could contribute energy too, but the Union establishment in my state is doing everything they can to keep Teach for America out!
I also agree that the average class room teacher gets no voice. Its the academic education people that dream up rules who are the problem. I suspect we really would be better off with lay people as local Supers and District managers! We would certainly be better off with them running state eduction boards and the like, the education establishment has FAILED!
Not only that we have all sorts of laws in most states that say only people with teaching degrees can go anywhere near a class room, and all of them have to do continuing education in the subject of education. We appoint for the most part only education academics to develop curriculum ( well except we we legislate teaching ID ) and design course material etc, etc.
You know what though for the most part even when the Democrats rain down money on it, by most measures our educational system is getting worse. If Engineers continuously built less and less reliable bridges we'd probably stop taking their input too.
There are plenty of implementations just no large scale commercial ones you or I are aware of. One of college professors many years ago had written one as a teaching tool. It was not a multiuser ACID database but it was perfectly cable of performing any series of expressions on flat files each or which represented a table. I might still have his dos binaries in only backup some place. For a long time I used it as an analysis tool.
The thing is RMS thinks all software should come with the four freedoms and so do I. What the GPL is designed to do and may eventually succeed at is make so many "gifts" available to those who will be willing to release more GPL'd code (subsequent gifts to the giver and others) that it will be impossible to be competitive if you can't use GPL code because you won't GPL your code. Eventually all published software would become free.
Microsoft has always called the GPL viral, but its designed to work more like an cancer. Other software (cells) won't be able to spawn as fast and eventually would be starved for resources and chocked out until nothing but GPL is left.
See I would like to hear a more intelligent answer if I were you like:
Well for most jobs the many mature SQL RDMS solutions are certainly the best tool to use as performance wise they are so highly optimized that its hard for anything to compete with them. They are also stable, reliable, and most importantly flexible providing a path to support future requirements and analysis. There are some cases though where the data set will be very large and the relationships will all be incredibly simple that NOSQL solutions *might* make sense.
Exactly, that is one of the most insulting things he has said to date. They are weasel words if ever any were spoken.
We already have words for military actions like: war, engagement, conflict, or and the original weasel term police action. There is no need to abuse the term kinetic, it adds nothing descriptive about what is happening. He simply did it because he knows his primary voting block has been trained to hate on anyone who says anything favorable about war, engagements, conflict and even police action in the same sentence with the word military. He also knows probably a full thirty percent of the people who voted for him don't know what kinetic means and are to lazy to look it up, they will just accept their messiah said it so it must be good.
Other than supporting Health Care Reform ( EXTRA CONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL POWER GRAB) I really can't tell Obama's polices from those of GWBs.
Bush seemed to be in favor of lots of foreign wars ostensibly to spread freedom and protect us from Terrorism. Obama has continued both, increasing troop commitments, and getting into a new one in Ly.
Bush created a surveillance state with Patriot act, Obama renewed it and has expanded state surveillance powers pushing for data retention laws and Cell phone tracking.
Bush was opposed to most financial regulation. Obama has left Timy and Beny boy to basically do whatever they like while singing a financial reform package, that does little to regulate anything and provides commercial banks several excuses to charge customers more.
GITMO - yup still operating... Oh and where to send these people is not a valid argument when the original issue was they were being unjustly held without trial. Just set them lose in Anytown USA, that is unless like Bush you think they are dangerous and must be held.
Open government, HAHAHA, the administration has suppress the publication of documents and held as many closed door meetings as any prior admin.
Other than Health Care Obama's reforms have been mostly empty.
Frankly I think Bush was at least honest about what he was doing. I'd rather listen to an honest guy mispronounce things and say things I don't agree with than some smooth talking manikin lie to my face about what he believes and intends to do. Oh and don't say Bush lied about IRAQ, he did not he was misinformed by the CIA who misinterpreted intelligence that other intelligence agencies around the world also failed at. So no he did not lie, should he been more cautious and less cowboy, certainly but that does not mean he lied.
Judges are not supposed to be specialists they should be generalists, because they need to understand the effects of the decisions they make in a broad societal context. What they need to be is REALLY SMART. We as a society need to do what we can to put some of the best and brightest on the bench.
This judge is a great example of how to do it right! He is not technical expert he is a legal expert and he smart enough to:
A) Know what he does not know B) Recognize that he needs to be educated about what he does not know to make a good ruling C) Learn and understand new possibly foreign concepts quickly enough to keep the legal system at least sort of efficient.
Ok the Dems when they had both house during the last congress would have ordinarily passed a 2011 budget, thats right normally the next years budget is passed before the current fiscal year end. That should have been done while Dems controlled both houses but they DECIDED not to and most likely because the sought to avoid having to be accountable for the budget going into elections where they were already polling very badly.
So now you expect Republicans to vote to fund things they don't want to fund when even Democrats who ostensibly do want to fund many of these programs refused to do it. That is not sane or reasonable pal, its not even fair.
which recovered funds to the tune of FOUR TIMES our operating expenses/budget
I don't know what your budget was but since you are using this nebulous figure to brag; I'd say it makes the librarian argument perfectly! The IG mostly investigates the fraud and abuse of government programs such as Medicare correct?
Let me suggest that if we did not have these programs to abuse well people can't abuse what does not exist.
Exactly this whole issue rests on the shoulders of House Democrats who under Pelosi should have drafted and FY2011 budget passed it and sent it to the Senate. This was all political calculation on their part. They already had lots of heat on them from Obama Care's disgraceful arm twisting method of passing and did not want to have to go into elections with a budget to answer for as well. The Republicans really need to do better at pointing this out.
Democrats control the Senate and the Presidency has House Democrats drafted a budget it would most likely have been passed, and certainly could have gotten through the Senate and across Obama's desk. So all you little liberals out there if your favorite program sees its 2011 budget cut, if your pet project is furloughed in a shutdown its really not the Republicans you should blame, its your own pathetic leadership. Now FY2012 is another matter.
The sad truth is at present debt levels and given what for the last 30 years have been apparent political realties non of this matters. It all amounts to a little less butter for some and little more for someone else. None of the real problems will or can be addressed. The world will keep on financing this nonsense because they don't know how to do anything other than by US Treasuries and would rather pretend the US is credit worthy than deal with the fact its not, which in a sick way makes it credit worthy, since its known the debt can be rolled over. Meanwhile rather than demand a balanced budget the citizens of this country will go on pay instead a hidden (VERY REGRESSIVE) inflation tax to the oil barons abroad and export the rest of our remaining wealth to the Chinese because they are the only ones who can produce goods cheaply enough Dollars will still buy them.
This all ends in another depression and eventually World War sometime in the future maybe 40 years or so.
True but the France that helped secure American independence was mostly doing so for old European conflict reasons and that France is a fair number of beheadings and other political revolutions away from the France we have today.
If I write a book and sell the copyright to a publisher and they print 50K copies and market them, clearly they not I published the book. They are going to be liable for any libelous statements in the book, I might be as well but they surely are.
Suppose I go the copy shop and run off a 1000 copies of a sheet of paper with "John Doe is a child molester" scaled on it. I then leave them all over the city park. Clearly John has a libel case against me, well unless he really is a child molester and I can prove it. Does he have a case against the local Kinko's? Could we reasonably say they "Published" it, even though all their employee did was take my money and press a button on a computer screen to give me 1000 copier credits?
Next question what constitutes making a statement and how specific does it need to be in a public Internet context?
Suppose John Doe is on trial in an an infamous child molestation case. He has not yet been found guilty. Auto complete aside someone does a search on the name and gets a bunch page hits about how its widely held that one John Doe has committed heinous crimes against children. Could the fact the Google returns these results first be construed to imply they in someway support or affirm the validity of the allegations? If he is acquitted can he sue them? Can some other John Doe sue them because people might confuse his name with the infamous one (they don't seem to be able to in the print world)? In the auto complete case there is not really even a document behind a link to look at how come this guy is able to claim its about him, surely someone else in Italy has the same name?
The trouble is the lusers have gotten used to thinking that 'foo.com' is the proper way to type an address, when they want 'foo.com.'. The browser can try foo.com and then its going to try foo.com.{something from my domain search suffice list}..
I keep reading similar comments over and over again but I really want the use case is! I agree it does not make any sense for browsers to treat self signed certs as riskier than plain HTTP, but why use HTTPs without authentication.
Put another way, why worry who can see what your saying when you don't know who you are saying it to anyway?
I totally understand a self signed cert for say connecting to a private network you control and have the certificates for. A company installing a their private CA certs on company laptops to enable VPN or use of their extranet are great examples.
Really though give me one use case where its reasonable to what encryption with an unknown party.
I don't think you are right about the impedance mismatch. Objects are just a range of memory that a set of functions is specifically allowed to work on. That range of memory and the on that stores the function for that matter can be thought of as streams which can be abstracted to files. The issue has more to do with your first point that builders of the common GUI platforms did not seek to mirror the objects from the command line.
Had they build a much of little GUI applets that did one simple thing and did it well we would not have this issue.
in the CLI there is useradd, usermod, and userdel each of which does a very specific thing. They are orthogonally consistent where it makes sense ie, take the same switches where appropriate but they each do their thing. GUI's almost invariably have a single application for managing users, with a very different work-flow.
This the FCC (YEA YEA boradcast flag, sell Verizon and ATT&T anything they want, he its not OTA but we can regulate ISPs because um...well we want too) we are talking about.
They actually did something supportive of open standards, and freedom for a change. I mean really its a shock that they new site is not being developed on Sharepoint! I almost spit my coffee out when when I read this! I mean they DID NOT PICK Sharepoint! Hope is alive!
Slashdot Mirror
performance - in what way is Windows 7/Server 2k8R2 slow?
Server seems fine, but Windows 7 is a PIG if you are actually doing anything. As soon as your process allocates most of the available memory all of Window's fat UI stuff keep the system paging things in and out like crazy! There are ways fix it, but the system is not configured that way out of the box and all in all its harder to make the system behave well than it was are XPSp2+, most Linux distributions and OS X.
efficient usage of system resources = How does 7/R2 fail to use systems resources in a efficient way?
See above
stability - I can't seam to get my systems to have stability issues, how do I reproduce this?
Fair enough its solid
file system - What is wrong with NTFS as implemented by 7/R2?
Nothing is wrong with it
decouple GUI from core - Has already been done. Server Core
AHAHAH you are kidding right! You realize all that happens is the shell is set to cmd.exe, well ok a few other things happen but for the most part that is it, all the GDI and every all component of the GUI layer is still there. They big difference is they have command line utilities now that enable you to get all the settings you would needed the Explorer shell for previously.
decouple apps from core - Which apps?
???
simple remote access - RDP and other methods are already built in.
check
get rid of the sick registry - In what way is it sick?
Its opaque mainly; and the efficiency gains of a binary configuration storage system don't make sense on modern machines. Even MS knows this hence DotNets aggressive encouragement of storing things in app.conf XML files.
customization - In what ways?
no real problems here honestly
documentation - What needs to be improved?
I have to agree here to, Windows is probably the best document platform in existence.
adhere to common open standards - Which standards?
They have been improving at this to the point its not an issue anymore
lower hardware requirements - It can run on very expensive systems. Exactly how low are you talking about?
There is NO good reason why client windows can't run on an Netbook with a gig of ram, but it won't comfortably at all. Again Its mostly the shell.
better modularization - Explain this please.
who knows what the poster was thinking
remove unneeded services/bloatware - Which ones are you talking about?
I think more should be OFF by default
provide a powerful shell - Powershell
enhance security/permission features - Example?
There's really no reason microsoft couldn't take a bsd-licensed OS and modify it as Apple (via NeXT) did and end up with a winner on their hands
There is a reason. That reason (I am typing this on Slackware Linux BTW) is that the Windows NT kernel and the Executive for the matter is one of the most modern and best designed platforms in wide use. They don't need take a BSD licensed OS or anything else for that matter and port win32 to it. What they need to do is first FIX their libraries which is where all the vulnerabilities always are. Second they need make better and correct use of what are actually very strong, reliable, and finer grained security capabilities than exist elsewhere, which are in many cases not exposed to end users.
Architecturally most of WIndow's problems are in the upper layers. The good news is from a design standpoint these are the simplest to fix, the bad new is from a political customer acceptance stand point these are probably the hardest to fix. Apples problem was completely different it was their underlying platform that was unworkable so finding a replacement and migrating their user land to it was a good call. Microsoft's problem is their user land and simply putting it on *BSD won't make it more secure or stable, actually it might make it less.
Right on I am getting real tired of "I run X" where X is most of Linux therefor I am secure. That attitude alone tells me you are probably making big mistakes all over the place. Arrogance does that. Its true people writing those comments are probably safer than Joe Public with his OEM crap ware laden Windows XP installation, out of date virus defs, and default Windows firewall configuration, 3000 never applied updates waiting, and logged in as an Administrator, but that is pretty low bar to be above!
I do IT security for a living, here is a hint. Whatever software you are using take steps we all read about, firewall, antivirus if that makes sense for your platform, don't elevate permissions when your don't have to, keep your box update, and after you have done all those things continuously check to make sure you are still doing them and above all use common sense at all times, always think before you click!
I am not buying the idea that the most advanced nation state the earth has even seen would pay farmers to grow surpluses of grain and then literally destroy the a portion of the harvest to support prices. Oh wait that happens...
There was a Kids in the Hall sketch that addressed the issue of why they come and probe. The punch line was that intergalactic anal probing puts allot of people to work...
Well, I actually have done some volunteer work teaching CompSci to HS students and yes its a great way to make a difference. I do think that schools should relax the rules on needed education certificates and such to teach no core subjects at least at the HS level. There are lots of good industry people that would like to teach for a some years and have great experience to offer students. There are lots of young people that could contribute energy too, but the Union establishment in my state is doing everything they can to keep Teach for America out!
I also agree that the average class room teacher gets no voice. Its the academic education people that dream up rules who are the problem. I suspect we really would be better off with lay people as local Supers and District managers! We would certainly be better off with them running state eduction boards and the like, the education establishment has FAILED!
Not only that we have all sorts of laws in most states that say only people with teaching degrees can go anywhere near a class room, and all of them have to do continuing education in the subject of education. We appoint for the most part only education academics to develop curriculum ( well except we we legislate teaching ID ) and design course material etc, etc.
You know what though for the most part even when the Democrats rain down money on it, by most measures our educational system is getting worse. If Engineers continuously built less and less reliable bridges we'd probably stop taking their input too.
There are plenty of implementations just no large scale commercial ones you or I are aware of. One of college professors many years ago had written one as a teaching tool. It was not a multiuser ACID database but it was perfectly cable of performing any series of expressions on flat files each or which represented a table. I might still have his dos binaries in only backup some place. For a long time I used it as an analysis tool.
The thing is RMS thinks all software should come with the four freedoms and so do I. What the GPL is designed to do and may eventually succeed at is make so many "gifts" available to those who will be willing to release more GPL'd code (subsequent gifts to the giver and others) that it will be impossible to be competitive if you can't use GPL code because you won't GPL your code. Eventually all published software would become free.
Microsoft has always called the GPL viral, but its designed to work more like an cancer. Other software (cells) won't be able to spawn as fast and eventually would be starved for resources and chocked out until nothing but GPL is left.
What are you talking about, traceroute works fine. Maybe your Network Admin blocks ICAMP except echo request / reply?
See I would like to hear a more intelligent answer if I were you like:
Well for most jobs the many mature SQL RDMS solutions are certainly the best tool to use as performance wise they are so highly optimized that its hard for anything to compete with them. They are also stable, reliable, and most importantly flexible providing a path to support future requirements and analysis. There are some cases though where the data set will be very large and the relationships will all be incredibly simple that NOSQL solutions *might* make sense.
Exactly, that is one of the most insulting things he has said to date. They are weasel words if ever any were spoken.
We already have words for military actions like: war, engagement, conflict, or and the original weasel term police action. There is no need to abuse the term kinetic, it adds nothing descriptive about what is happening. He simply did it because he knows his primary voting block has been trained to hate on anyone who says anything favorable about war, engagements, conflict and even police action in the same sentence with the word military. He also knows probably a full thirty percent of the people who voted for him don't know what kinetic means and are to lazy to look it up, they will just accept their messiah said it so it must be good.
See I am really surprised everytime I read that!
Other than supporting Health Care Reform ( EXTRA CONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL POWER GRAB) I really can't tell Obama's polices from those of GWBs.
Bush seemed to be in favor of lots of foreign wars ostensibly to spread freedom and protect us from Terrorism. Obama has continued both, increasing troop commitments, and getting into a new one in Ly.
Bush created a surveillance state with Patriot act, Obama renewed it and has expanded state surveillance powers pushing for data retention laws and Cell phone tracking.
Bush was opposed to most financial regulation. Obama has left Timy and Beny boy to basically do whatever they like while singing a financial reform package, that does little to regulate anything and provides commercial banks several excuses to charge customers more.
GITMO - yup still operating... Oh and where to send these people is not a valid argument when the original issue was they were being unjustly held without trial. Just set them lose in Anytown USA, that is unless like Bush you think they are dangerous and must be held.
Open government, HAHAHA, the administration has suppress the publication of documents and held as many closed door meetings as any prior admin.
Other than Health Care Obama's reforms have been mostly empty.
Frankly I think Bush was at least honest about what he was doing. I'd rather listen to an honest guy mispronounce things and say things I don't agree with than some smooth talking manikin lie to my face about what he believes and intends to do. Oh and don't say Bush lied about IRAQ, he did not he was misinformed by the CIA who misinterpreted intelligence that other intelligence agencies around the world also failed at. So no he did not lie, should he been more cautious and less cowboy, certainly but that does not mean he lied.
Judges are not supposed to be specialists they should be generalists, because they need to understand the effects of the decisions they make in a broad societal context. What they need to be is REALLY SMART. We as a society need to do what we can to put some of the best and brightest on the bench.
This judge is a great example of how to do it right! He is not technical expert he is a legal expert and he smart enough to:
A) Know what he does not know
B) Recognize that he needs to be educated about what he does not know to make a good ruling
C) Learn and understand new possibly foreign concepts quickly enough to keep the legal system at least sort of efficient.
I applaud this fully!
sanity and reason eh?
Ok the Dems when they had both house during the last congress would have ordinarily passed a 2011 budget, thats right normally the next years budget is passed before the current fiscal year end. That should have been done while Dems controlled both houses but they DECIDED not to and most likely because the sought to avoid having to be accountable for the budget going into elections where they were already polling very badly.
So now you expect Republicans to vote to fund things they don't want to fund when even Democrats who ostensibly do want to fund many of these programs refused to do it. That is not sane or reasonable pal, its not even fair.
which recovered funds to the tune of FOUR TIMES our operating expenses/budget
I don't know what your budget was but since you are using this nebulous figure to brag; I'd say it makes the librarian argument perfectly! The IG mostly investigates the fraud and abuse of government programs such as Medicare correct?
Let me suggest that if we did not have these programs to abuse well people can't abuse what does not exist.
No they did not. The versions numbers were 3.95 (Windows 95) 4.0 (Windows 95 OSR2) and 4.10 (Windows 98) and so on...
Exactly this whole issue rests on the shoulders of House Democrats who under Pelosi should have drafted and FY2011 budget passed it and sent it to the Senate. This was all political calculation on their part. They already had lots of heat on them from Obama Care's disgraceful arm twisting method of passing and did not want to have to go into elections with a budget to answer for as well. The Republicans really need to do better at pointing this out.
Democrats control the Senate and the Presidency has House Democrats drafted a budget it would most likely have been passed, and certainly could have gotten through the Senate and across Obama's desk. So all you little liberals out there if your favorite program sees its 2011 budget cut, if your pet project is furloughed in a shutdown its really not the Republicans you should blame, its your own pathetic leadership. Now FY2012 is another matter.
The sad truth is at present debt levels and given what for the last 30 years have been apparent political realties non of this matters. It all amounts to a little less butter for some and little more for someone else. None of the real problems will or can be addressed. The world will keep on financing this nonsense because they don't know how to do anything other than by US Treasuries and would rather pretend the US is credit worthy than deal with the fact its not, which in a sick way makes it credit worthy, since its known the debt can be rolled over. Meanwhile rather than demand a balanced budget the citizens of this country will go on pay instead a hidden (VERY REGRESSIVE) inflation tax to the oil barons abroad and export the rest of our remaining wealth to the Chinese because they are the only ones who can produce goods cheaply enough Dollars will still buy them.
This all ends in another depression and eventually World War sometime in the future maybe 40 years or so.
True but the France that helped secure American independence was mostly doing so for old European conflict reasons and that France is a fair number of beheadings and other political revolutions away from the France we have today.
your doing it stupid is the problem. It should have gone like this:
apropos image resize ...
man ImageProcessor
[alt]-[f2]
imageProcessor -scale [alt]-[f1] [alt]-[f2] -filter (contrast,1.1)
Mind you those VT switches are infinitively faster than you could hope to switch windows in a GUI, even with [alt]-[tab]
So there are a few good questions here:
First question what is publishing?
If I write a book and sell the copyright to a publisher and they print 50K copies and market them, clearly they not I published the book. They are going to be liable for any libelous statements in the book, I might be as well but they surely are.
Suppose I go the copy shop and run off a 1000 copies of a sheet of paper with "John Doe is a child molester" scaled on it. I then leave them all over the city park. Clearly John has a libel case against me, well unless he really is a child molester and I can prove it. Does he have a case against the local Kinko's? Could we reasonably say they "Published" it, even though all their employee did was take my money and press a button on a computer screen to give me 1000 copier credits?
Next question what constitutes making a statement and how specific does it need to be in a public Internet context?
Suppose John Doe is on trial in an an infamous child molestation case. He has not yet been found guilty. Auto complete aside someone does a search on the name and gets a bunch page hits about how its widely held that one John Doe has committed heinous crimes against children. Could the fact the Google returns these results first be construed to imply they in someway support or affirm the validity of the allegations? If he is acquitted can he sue them? Can some other John Doe sue them because people might confuse his name with the infamous one (they don't seem to be able to in the print world)? In the auto complete case there is not really even a document behind a link to look at how come this guy is able to claim its about him, surely someone else in Italy has the same name?
The trouble is the lusers have gotten used to thinking that 'foo.com' is the proper way to type an address, when they want 'foo.com.'. The browser can try foo.com and then its going to try foo.com.{something from my domain search suffice list}..
Why?
I keep reading similar comments over and over again but I really want the use case is! I agree it does not make any sense for browsers to treat self signed certs as riskier than plain HTTP, but why use HTTPs without authentication.
Put another way, why worry who can see what your saying when you don't know who you are saying it to anyway?
I totally understand a self signed cert for say connecting to a private network you control and have the certificates for. A company installing a their private CA certs on company laptops to enable VPN or use of their extranet are great examples.
Really though give me one use case where its reasonable to what encryption with an unknown party.
Well Discrete Mathematics certainly comes up pretty often in some methods of cryptography so yes it is a type of math that can help you keep secrets.
I don't think you are right about the impedance mismatch. Objects are just a range of memory that a set of functions is specifically allowed to work on. That range of memory and the on that stores the function for that matter can be thought of as streams which can be abstracted to files. The issue has more to do with your first point that builders of the common GUI platforms did not seek to mirror the objects from the command line.
Had they build a much of little GUI applets that did one simple thing and did it well we would not have this issue.
in the CLI there is useradd, usermod, and userdel each of which does a very specific thing. They are orthogonally consistent where it makes sense ie, take the same switches where appropriate but they each do their thing. GUI's almost invariably have a single application for managing users, with a very different work-flow.
This the FCC (YEA YEA boradcast flag, sell Verizon and ATT&T anything they want, he its not OTA but we can regulate ISPs because um...well we want too) we are talking about.
They actually did something supportive of open standards, and freedom for a change. I mean really its a shock that they new site is not being developed on Sharepoint! I almost spit my coffee out when when I read this! I mean they DID NOT PICK Sharepoint! Hope is alive!