I'm still trying to figure out why the Linux community reinvented that wheel with systemd. Apple open-sourced their launchd over a decade ago when they replaced init. Now we have something that does the same job on Linux, but is far more complicated and far less documented.
I got to the bottom of that, and didn't even see one mention of Netcraft confirming anything. Disappointing.
You do realize that there are shitloads of uses for Linux that don't have anything to do with X, PulseAudio, or Gnome, right? I manage over 100 cloud instances of Linux running on systemd, and not a single one has failed for anything related to systemd. And, by the way, we've built our systems so that any of them could fail and be terminated / spun back up in 20 - 30 minutes without losing anything, because automatic scaling and load balancing is a thing, and has been for quite some time. Oh no, the monitoring shows that this instance isn't responding anymore? Kill it and have a new one come up automatically, while the rest that are behind the load balancer take over.
In no way is Linux being 'extinguished' where it matters - the data center. It's alive and thriving.
No, because anti-China speech is protected in the United States under the First Amendment, and the US would have absolutely no problem telling China to pack salt on that. No country extradites (or at least, shouldn't) for crimes that aren't crimes where they are too. I'll bet that unauthorized use of a computer is a crime in Romania, just like it is here in the US.
You might not be that far off. I'm sure that the FBI wants to have an absolutely ironclad case before they go after any politician, much less one running for President. If they were to charge early without having a complete case, ready to go, they would look like they are tampering in a national election while being wholly incompetent.
That's a horrible example. Of course the guy who made the bomb would be responsible, because it's illegal to make bombs. But the guy that hacked it also committed a crime - unauthorized use of a computer system.
Better example: I leave the front door of my house unlocked, and someone comes in and steals all my shit while I'm away. Is that person not a thief, because I didn't secure my house?
Unless he comes to the US, and cuts a deal in order to testify as to what he found on Clinton's email server while hacking it, e.g. testify that he saw classified documents that weren't there.
Were the circumstances exactly the same? Sending classified materials to non-governmental email servers without authorization?
If so, then you are absolutely correct - they should see the inside of a courtroom just the same. "But my political opposition did it first" is not a valid legal defense, no matter how much some politicians and their sycophants would like it to be.
100% correct. The only way you can run a successful nationwide election campaign is if you truly believe that you have all the solutions, and that everyone else is less capable. How else would you ever get > 50M people to vote for you?
I was thinking exactly this. Glad to hear that only now are we seeing a 'cross-platform' malware, and that the untold numbers of Excel macro viruses, Outlook exploits, PDF exploits, Flash exploits, etc. don't count. Only when you use Java to do something it was actually designed to do (as you described) do you become 'the first cross-platform malware.'
Congratulations on missing the point. At least with software, getting a fix is even an option. Bad hardware stays bad until it is replaced wholesale with a new purchase.
No. But Tepco probably pulled engineers and technicians from every nuclear facility they operate (there's a lot of them) in order to spread out the dosage, and have more hands available to deal with the issue.
Actually, most of the proponents of nuclear power consider nuke plants to be safer than a coal plant, because the coal plant is constantly spewing carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, particulates, and creates fly ash ponds that are extremely toxic, and sometimes breach and destroy entire river ecosystems.
The normal operating condition of a coal plant is fucking horrendous, where the nuclear only causes a problem when a whole string of problems happen at once.
If you're talking about the article from last week when you are talking about "the reported design flaw in ALL U.S. reactors" that is literally a problem with any three-phase electrical system that can be solved by spending a day with an electrician installing a phase-detecting relay. It can be fixed relatively easy without deleting 20% of the generation capacity in the US, or spending hundreds of billions in construction costs.
That being said, the issue deserves the attention of regulators, and should be remedied. And, I agree that the way forward while we're still using fission reactors is to build new tech and decommission the BWRs of the 1950s that we're uprating and extending past their original designed life. Unfortunately, there are certain folks around here that will fight nuclear technology at any cost in favor of technology that isn't suitable, or ready, to displace the nuclear capacity we are using today.
XProtect does one other thing that is very welcome in most circumstances as well - expiring old versions of browser plug-ins like Java and Flash, which are known to have massive gaping security holes in them.
And, again, if this gets in the way of a proper administrator who is saddled with some ancient piece of shit that requires some ancient plug-in, it can be disabled on a per-plug-in level
And all phones can go on the roads that we call the Internet. The software developer for a phone is more like an aftermarket car part maker - you're modifying the car (phone) to do something it wasn't originally manufactured to do.
So I don't buy the different-road-network-per-OS argument - it hasn't been valid since V.90 modems came out in the late 90s, and certainly in the broadband era, except for a small period where the iPhone was only available on AT&T, where you absolutely did have a "different road" argument.
I'll buy that market share is important for attracting developers. But if your market share is already sufficient to attract developers, then more market share is irrelevant other than chest thumping about having a large market share.
You would be hard pressed to find anyone who would say that the current version of iTunes isn't a complete disaster.
That being said, it wasn't always so. There were many versions of iTunes in the past that were fantastic. It all went off the rails when they decided it needed to be the hub of all device and media sync IN THE WORLD. Now it's a massively bloated piece of crap that barely functions at it's core task - organizing and playing music.
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Isn't that basically where we are now? The presumptive nominees for President at this point are a loudmouth billionaire, and a wall street puppet.
Looks like everything's working according to schedule.
I'm still trying to figure out why the Linux community reinvented that wheel with systemd. Apple open-sourced their launchd over a decade ago when they replaced init. Now we have something that does the same job on Linux, but is far more complicated and far less documented.
Good times.
I got to the bottom of that, and didn't even see one mention of Netcraft confirming anything. Disappointing.
You do realize that there are shitloads of uses for Linux that don't have anything to do with X, PulseAudio, or Gnome, right? I manage over 100 cloud instances of Linux running on systemd, and not a single one has failed for anything related to systemd. And, by the way, we've built our systems so that any of them could fail and be terminated / spun back up in 20 - 30 minutes without losing anything, because automatic scaling and load balancing is a thing, and has been for quite some time. Oh no, the monitoring shows that this instance isn't responding anymore? Kill it and have a new one come up automatically, while the rest that are behind the load balancer take over.
In no way is Linux being 'extinguished' where it matters - the data center. It's alive and thriving.
No, because anti-China speech is protected in the United States under the First Amendment, and the US would have absolutely no problem telling China to pack salt on that. No country extradites (or at least, shouldn't) for crimes that aren't crimes where they are too. I'll bet that unauthorized use of a computer is a crime in Romania, just like it is here in the US.
You might not be that far off. I'm sure that the FBI wants to have an absolutely ironclad case before they go after any politician, much less one running for President. If they were to charge early without having a complete case, ready to go, they would look like they are tampering in a national election while being wholly incompetent.
That's a horrible example. Of course the guy who made the bomb would be responsible, because it's illegal to make bombs. But the guy that hacked it also committed a crime - unauthorized use of a computer system.
Better example: I leave the front door of my house unlocked, and someone comes in and steals all my shit while I'm away. Is that person not a thief, because I didn't secure my house?
Use your brain.
I'm willing to pay that price to not have a proto-facist sitting in the Oval Office.
And yes, I'm a registered Republican that cannot believe what has happened to this political party. I may be going independent soon.
If only saying so on Slashdot made it true.
you forgot:
7. Did she knowingly direct employees of the US Department of State to forward classified information through the private email server?
Which also sounds like 'yes', but I'm waiting to hear something other than rumor and innuendo before making a final decision.
Unless he comes to the US, and cuts a deal in order to testify as to what he found on Clinton's email server while hacking it, e.g. testify that he saw classified documents that weren't there.
Were the circumstances exactly the same? Sending classified materials to non-governmental email servers without authorization?
If so, then you are absolutely correct - they should see the inside of a courtroom just the same. "But my political opposition did it first" is not a valid legal defense, no matter how much some politicians and their sycophants would like it to be.
100% correct. The only way you can run a successful nationwide election campaign is if you truly believe that you have all the solutions, and that everyone else is less capable. How else would you ever get > 50M people to vote for you?
I'm okay with that logic.
I was thinking exactly this. Glad to hear that only now are we seeing a 'cross-platform' malware, and that the untold numbers of Excel macro viruses, Outlook exploits, PDF exploits, Flash exploits, etc. don't count. Only when you use Java to do something it was actually designed to do (as you described) do you become 'the first cross-platform malware.'
Congratulations on missing the point. At least with software, getting a fix is even an option. Bad hardware stays bad until it is replaced wholesale with a new purchase.
No. But Tepco probably pulled engineers and technicians from every nuclear facility they operate (there's a lot of them) in order to spread out the dosage, and have more hands available to deal with the issue.
I would hope that if you have a Fukushima-scale disaster on your hands, that more people would be brought in that aren't usually on staff to help.
"We would have gotten it under control, but we were told not to go over budget on contract resources" isn't a good answer during a nuclear accident.
Actually, most of the proponents of nuclear power consider nuke plants to be safer than a coal plant, because the coal plant is constantly spewing carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, particulates, and creates fly ash ponds that are extremely toxic, and sometimes breach and destroy entire river ecosystems.
The normal operating condition of a coal plant is fucking horrendous, where the nuclear only causes a problem when a whole string of problems happen at once.
If you're talking about the article from last week when you are talking about "the reported design flaw in ALL U.S. reactors" that is literally a problem with any three-phase electrical system that can be solved by spending a day with an electrician installing a phase-detecting relay. It can be fixed relatively easy without deleting 20% of the generation capacity in the US, or spending hundreds of billions in construction costs.
That being said, the issue deserves the attention of regulators, and should be remedied. And, I agree that the way forward while we're still using fission reactors is to build new tech and decommission the BWRs of the 1950s that we're uprating and extending past their original designed life. Unfortunately, there are certain folks around here that will fight nuclear technology at any cost in favor of technology that isn't suitable, or ready, to displace the nuclear capacity we are using today.
XProtect does one other thing that is very welcome in most circumstances as well - expiring old versions of browser plug-ins like Java and Flash, which are known to have massive gaping security holes in them.
And, again, if this gets in the way of a proper administrator who is saddled with some ancient piece of shit that requires some ancient plug-in, it can be disabled on a per-plug-in level
And all phones can go on the roads that we call the Internet. The software developer for a phone is more like an aftermarket car part maker - you're modifying the car (phone) to do something it wasn't originally manufactured to do.
So I don't buy the different-road-network-per-OS argument - it hasn't been valid since V.90 modems came out in the late 90s, and certainly in the broadband era, except for a small period where the iPhone was only available on AT&T, where you absolutely did have a "different road" argument.
I'll buy that market share is important for attracting developers. But if your market share is already sufficient to attract developers, then more market share is irrelevant other than chest thumping about having a large market share.
In your 1999 description, you forgot "have the computing power of a Cray Y-MP in your pocket, and have it last all day on battery."
You would be hard pressed to find anyone who would say that the current version of iTunes isn't a complete disaster.
That being said, it wasn't always so. There were many versions of iTunes in the past that were fantastic. It all went off the rails when they decided it needed to be the hub of all device and media sync IN THE WORLD. Now it's a massively bloated piece of crap that barely functions at it's core task - organizing and playing music.
Bad hardware stays bad. Bad software can be fixed with a download from the Internet.