Oracle is trying to give customers a reason to use their half-assed clone of RedHat Linux rather than Redhat's or SUSE's.
FTFY.
In a way, it's kind of nice. Oracle will have to ensure RHEL compatibility of kSplice, whereas out-of-the-box it appears the only normally supported options are Ubuntu or Fedora. And since kSplice is GPL2, that means that the community will benefit from Oracle's generosity and public-minded support.
If you ask my older children (the ones who are adults now), they'd probably tell you the most fun they had growing up is the three of them plus the neighborhood kids romping around the forested sides of South Mountain, looking for unexploded ordinance*, catching crayfish in the creek, and lots of stuff they still won't tell me (because the statute of limitations isn't completely gone, I think.)
They have all their limbs, all their faculties, both their eyes (each), all their fingers and toes, and some good memories.
*This particular part of South Mountain was part of an Army post, and this particular part of the forest used to be an artillery practice range, allegedly. Yeah, it could have gone spectacularly badly, but I did the same stuff in Okinawa 30 years before that, and the elementary schools had recurring training from the local EOD guys who always told you the gruesome story of this year's "ooh, I found an old artillery shell" victim. And I still have all the bits I was born with.
This is the kind of thing that makes me believe in God, so that I can also believe in guardian angels. YMMV.
In a fairly local news story around here, some kid playing outside got impaled on a tree branch. And a quick google on "impaled tree branch" shows it seems to happen all the time!
That's a Cisco IronPort web filter warning. (Speaking of warning, WARNING: Marketing PDF)
I dunno where that particular device got that "web reputation" record for that particular website. It might be outdated, or GP's company may have some weird fetish about executing code in remote VMs.
It was going to be a novelty thing, but according to Frito-Lay's blog:
Feeling Retro? Good. Doritos Taco is Back for a Limited Time!
UPDATE (2/28/11): Hi, Snack Chat friends! I'm happy to provide an update on Cathy's blog post below. We heard your great feedback and love your passion for Doritos Taco. So, some good news -- we'll be keeping Doritos Taco on store shelves! Remember to use our online product locator to find stores near you that sell it (http://www.fritolay.com/our-snacks/where-to-buy.html). Happy snacking! - Kristin
So it's as permanent as any consumer product in this fickle market. Enjoy 'em while they last!
Doritos are for dorky losers in their mom's basement.
You are so wrong. My Mom is always telling me I'm not dorky, just misunderstood.
She's also always telling me to get out of her basement and take care of my wife and brat kids, but I think she's just worried I'll eat all of her sweet, sweet taco-flavored Doritos.
I'm just misunderstood, even by Mom. But taco Doritos will never misunderstand me, or judge me, or tell me it wants a divorce...
I wouldn't try to ride very far on the "off-topic" high horse this time. TFA (quoted in the summary) specifically drew comparison between the Moore's-Law-driven increase in computer capability and the less impressive increase in network speed. So, to borrow the hairy courtroom drama cliche, the article "opened that door" of the subject of system performance changes over time, so the court will allow it. Objection overridden.
That's a good point. After voluntarily submitting to these types of intrusions, the trusted recruits should have ample body cavity capacity for implanted boom blox, if you know what I mean. Giggidy.
And by "Doritos" you mean the only true Doritos, the Taco flavor ones. Every other product in that line is a waste of perfectly good corn triangles, an abomination, the spawn of Anti-Dorito.
You do mean the Taco Flavor ones, right? Or are you one of the infidels?
What do you think our current fiat money system is? That's right, one big pyramid scheme. The Federal Reserve Bank creates money out of nothing at essentially zero cost, and then LOANS it to the government.
Hey, you know the difference between a unicorn and a horse? One has a horn on its head, and the other exists.
When my son was 2 years hold, I discovered he had learned my tendency to mutter "Well, shit.." when encountering a frustrating delay in some process I'm doing (canonical example: I've bought the wrong fasteners for putting something together).
He's playing with his Duplos, and he discovers he can't find the piece he needs to bridge two little pillars he's assembled... and he mutters "Well, shit" while shaking his head.
I couldn't decide to be mortified or fall down laughing.
I contend that while some strong take the weak now, and in fact, much "government" is the strong taking the weak with social sanction... there is definitely a subset of humanity which is restrained only by fear of consequences. The evidence is the demonstrated difference in behavior of some when provided an opportunity for practical anonymity. Looting, online cruelty, mob violence... the result of believing "I can get away with this." (Note that everyone who falls to this kind of thinking can also convince themselves that this action is justifiable, in terms of revenge or "getting what I deserve" or "I need this". Rationalization of violence and cruelty isn't the point. The release of that violence is the point.)
That's an odd perspective. How "in the state" does a sales force have to be in order to trigger nexus status? Permanently resident? Slightly resident? If my traveling sales guy spends a month in a hotel while drumming up new sales in California, is that nexus? And what if it's a contracted sales force? They're not part of my company. If I have a law firm on retainer in that state, is that nexus? If I subcontract assembly of my widget, is that factory nexus?
Sorry, the whole "associates==nexus" thing smells of extreme stretch and special pleading.
Maybe the problem here is requiring private businesses to act as tax collectors.
Well, not to put too fine a point on it, private businesses have always acted as tax collectors for sales taxes. The last time I walked into the little hardware store down the street and bought a bow saw for trimming up some shrubbery, I paid state sales taxes as part of the total bill at the cash register. The money went into the cash register of the mom-and-pop privately-owned store, along with the purchase price of the saw. I expect that the store owners would, on some periodic basis, forward the tax collection along with paperwork supporting the amount forwarded to the state department of revenue.
So, if it's a problem, it's not usually a problematic problem. It's only a problem because states want a back-door way to tax imports into their states in spite of the constitutional prohibition on duties, forcing any private business which sells via non-bricks-and-mortar techniques into collecting sales taxes for X states, where X > 1. And that's kind of difficult, and again, of dubious constitutionality where the legal concept of "nexus" isn't established and clearly applicable.
Only by the broadest definition of "self" in "self-defense". There's nothing explicit in GP's scenario that says that the "group of citizens" is, in fact, your current victims -- the only eligible "self" in conventional definitions of "self-defense". So, the neighbors create a posse to bring you to justice. It's not self-defense, because they're not in current personal peril. You can argue it's communal self-defense, but that's not meaningfully distinguishable from "preemptive state force" or "forcible justice". It requires an attribution of intent which isn't falsifiable. If the posse claims communal self-defense, there's absolutely no external evidence to disprove that.
BTW, you haven't clarified the difference between communal self-defense, forcible justice, or state force. And I'm sure you can't, because again, the distinction is entirely in intent, which may not be meaningfully provable. So the self-declared posse of self-defense is quite possibly the hated state force of government, or the nucleus of it in times to come.
Anarchy, as a philosophy, has no practical application, because the distinction between state force and self-defense is nebulous, constantly shifting, and unprovable.
Just because a government collapses doesn't mean that people respect the non-aggression principle
Except that, in practice, it always does, even if only in a borderline-sociopathic minority. This is the minority which respects the rights and dignity of other people only because they fear the consequences imposed by state force: "justice" in the legalistic sense. When that restraint is removed, the strong begin to take the weak, and then bodies of communal self-defense naturally form. And when that happens, you're again left with the slippery slope from self-defense to state force.
Since Florian is omnipresent in any issue about software patents, I guess you're conceding the field to him.
A sane approach would be to consider all aspects of the issue at hand, perhaps avoiding Mueller's input if it bothers you enough. Hell, you should at least read his rantings, but if you lack the guts or intellect to do that without panicking or raging out, you can be excused from that burden.
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Oracle is trying to give customers a reason to use their half-assed clone of RedHat Linux rather than Redhat's or SUSE's.
FTFY.
In a way, it's kind of nice. Oracle will have to ensure RHEL compatibility of kSplice, whereas out-of-the-box it appears the only normally supported options are Ubuntu or Fedora. And since kSplice is GPL2, that means that the community will benefit from Oracle's generosity and public-minded support.
CentOS, copy RedHat's fork of ksplice today*.
*For sufficiently large values of "today".
If you ask my older children (the ones who are adults now), they'd probably tell you the most fun they had growing up is the three of them plus the neighborhood kids romping around the forested sides of South Mountain, looking for unexploded ordinance*, catching crayfish in the creek, and lots of stuff they still won't tell me (because the statute of limitations isn't completely gone, I think.)
They have all their limbs, all their faculties, both their eyes (each), all their fingers and toes, and some good memories.
*This particular part of South Mountain was part of an Army post, and this particular part of the forest used to be an artillery practice range, allegedly. Yeah, it could have gone spectacularly badly, but I did the same stuff in Okinawa 30 years before that, and the elementary schools had recurring training from the local EOD guys who always told you the gruesome story of this year's "ooh, I found an old artillery shell" victim. And I still have all the bits I was born with.
This is the kind of thing that makes me believe in God, so that I can also believe in guardian angels. YMMV.
And completely remove all the downed wood.
In a fairly local news story around here, some kid playing outside got impaled on a tree branch. And a quick google on "impaled tree branch" shows it seems to happen all the time!
I knew the big blue room was too dangerous!
Mom's basement is perfectly safe, and I grew up JUST FINE.
That's a Cisco IronPort web filter warning. (Speaking of warning, WARNING: Marketing PDF)
I dunno where that particular device got that "web reputation" record for that particular website. It might be outdated, or GP's company may have some weird fetish about executing code in remote VMs.
My head already apslode from the thought of needing Google to get to Google.
Your password will obviously become "ilovekittehs"
WTF is it with cats? It's as if xkcd is a documentary, not a webcomic.
So it's as permanent as any consumer product in this fickle market. Enjoy 'em while they last!
Who knows? In time, they might realise they're not going to have their head bitten off for their choices in brands.
And that will be the moment when we strike: when they've relaxed their guard, when they think they're safe
When They Least Expect It.
"Nicer to fanboys". heh. good one.
Doritos are for dorky losers in their mom's basement.
You are so wrong. My Mom is always telling me I'm not dorky, just misunderstood.
She's also always telling me to get out of her basement and take care of my wife and brat kids, but I think she's just worried I'll eat all of her sweet, sweet taco-flavored Doritos.
I'm just misunderstood, even by Mom. But taco Doritos will never misunderstand me, or judge me, or tell me it wants a divorce...
AdBlock Plus, and browsers with cookie whitelists. That's your invisible hand
Exactly. My ABP invisible hand is displaying the universal greeting to those advertising leeches.
I wouldn't try to ride very far on the "off-topic" high horse this time. TFA (quoted in the summary) specifically drew comparison between the Moore's-Law-driven increase in computer capability and the less impressive increase in network speed. So, to borrow the hairy courtroom drama cliche, the article "opened that door" of the subject of system performance changes over time, so the court will allow it. Objection overridden.
That's a good point. After voluntarily submitting to these types of intrusions, the trusted recruits should have ample body cavity capacity for implanted boom blox, if you know what I mean. Giggidy.
And by "Doritos" you mean the only true Doritos, the Taco flavor ones. Every other product in that line is a waste of perfectly good corn triangles, an abomination, the spawn of Anti-Dorito.
You do mean the Taco Flavor ones, right? Or are you one of the infidels?
What do you think our current fiat money system is? That's right, one big pyramid scheme. The Federal Reserve Bank creates money out of nothing at essentially zero cost, and then LOANS it to the government.
Hey, you know the difference between a unicorn and a horse? One has a horn on its head, and the other exists.
It's amazing, isn't it?
When my son was 2 years hold, I discovered he had learned my tendency to mutter "Well, shit.." when encountering a frustrating delay in some process I'm doing (canonical example: I've bought the wrong fasteners for putting something together).
He's playing with his Duplos, and he discovers he can't find the piece he needs to bridge two little pillars he's assembled... and he mutters "Well, shit" while shaking his head.
I couldn't decide to be mortified or fall down laughing.
Which is why NASA gave up on going to the moon. We can't see it, and we got tired of risking astronauts and spacecraft on blind shots.
And the moral of the story is..... "Hard science is hard."
Mostly the kind of language you don't use among polite company.
Call me when computers learn to swear idiomatically and emotionally appropriately.
I contend that while some strong take the weak now, and in fact, much "government" is the strong taking the weak with social sanction... there is definitely a subset of humanity which is restrained only by fear of consequences. The evidence is the demonstrated difference in behavior of some when provided an opportunity for practical anonymity. Looting, online cruelty, mob violence... the result of believing "I can get away with this." (Note that everyone who falls to this kind of thinking can also convince themselves that this action is justifiable, in terms of revenge or "getting what I deserve" or "I need this". Rationalization of violence and cruelty isn't the point. The release of that violence is the point.)
That's an odd perspective. How "in the state" does a sales force have to be in order to trigger nexus status? Permanently resident? Slightly resident? If my traveling sales guy spends a month in a hotel while drumming up new sales in California, is that nexus? And what if it's a contracted sales force? They're not part of my company. If I have a law firm on retainer in that state, is that nexus? If I subcontract assembly of my widget, is that factory nexus?
Sorry, the whole "associates==nexus" thing smells of extreme stretch and special pleading.
Maybe the problem here is requiring private businesses to act as tax collectors.
Well, not to put too fine a point on it, private businesses have always acted as tax collectors for sales taxes. The last time I walked into the little hardware store down the street and bought a bow saw for trimming up some shrubbery, I paid state sales taxes as part of the total bill at the cash register. The money went into the cash register of the mom-and-pop privately-owned store, along with the purchase price of the saw. I expect that the store owners would, on some periodic basis, forward the tax collection along with paperwork supporting the amount forwarded to the state department of revenue.
So, if it's a problem, it's not usually a problematic problem. It's only a problem because states want a back-door way to tax imports into their states in spite of the constitutional prohibition on duties, forcing any private business which sells via non-bricks-and-mortar techniques into collecting sales taxes for X states, where X > 1. And that's kind of difficult, and again, of dubious constitutionality where the legal concept of "nexus" isn't established and clearly applicable.
Only by the broadest definition of "self" in "self-defense". There's nothing explicit in GP's scenario that says that the "group of citizens" is, in fact, your current victims -- the only eligible "self" in conventional definitions of "self-defense". So, the neighbors create a posse to bring you to justice. It's not self-defense, because they're not in current personal peril. You can argue it's communal self-defense, but that's not meaningfully distinguishable from "preemptive state force" or "forcible justice". It requires an attribution of intent which isn't falsifiable. If the posse claims communal self-defense, there's absolutely no external evidence to disprove that.
BTW, you haven't clarified the difference between communal self-defense, forcible justice, or state force. And I'm sure you can't, because again, the distinction is entirely in intent, which may not be meaningfully provable. So the self-declared posse of self-defense is quite possibly the hated state force of government, or the nucleus of it in times to come.
Anarchy, as a philosophy, has no practical application, because the distinction between state force and self-defense is nebulous, constantly shifting, and unprovable.
Just because a government collapses doesn't mean that people respect the non-aggression principle
Except that, in practice, it always does, even if only in a borderline-sociopathic minority. This is the minority which respects the rights and dignity of other people only because they fear the consequences imposed by state force: "justice" in the legalistic sense. When that restraint is removed, the strong begin to take the weak, and then bodies of communal self-defense naturally form. And when that happens, you're again left with the slippery slope from self-defense to state force.
but I approve of this message.
Photovoltaic paint FTW! If only it weren't operating on the same deployment timeline as flying cars and strong AI.
Since Florian is omnipresent in any issue about software patents, I guess you're conceding the field to him.
A sane approach would be to consider all aspects of the issue at hand, perhaps avoiding Mueller's input if it bothers you enough. Hell, you should at least read his rantings, but if you lack the guts or intellect to do that without panicking or raging out, you can be excused from that burden.