"Heh. You'll love this feature. Watch this... 'meta'-'alt'-'bucky'-'left-wokka'-'shift'-both-'control's-'compose'-'fish'-'right-alt'... crap, ran out of fingers, press 'q' for me....thanks... hehe, I just sent a Zippy the Pinhead quote as an SMS to everyone on my contacts list. Sweet, eh?"
Too bad they can't arrange to lose the right editors.
Wikipedia appears to be the Web 2.0 equivalent of urban flight and blight: anyone with a clue is ditching fast, and pretty soon, the only ones left in the "inner city" will be criminals and psychos
You know what? The title says "Faster than a bullet." Not "Faster than all bullets." So, frankly, even if the vehicle is rolling downhill unpowered, it's faster than a bullet still in its cartridge and packaged in the box, and therefore, the headline is still technically true. And, as every good bureaucrat knows, "technically correct is the best kind of correct."
Sheesh. I can't believe I'm forced to defend Slashdot editorial practice, and with that kind of contorted example. But this "That's not a bullet...now that's a bullet!" stuff is just getting over the top.
Good point. The closest Socialism has ever come to working is when it availed itself of the State right to execute narrow-minded right-wing whiners, along with anyone else the Great Leader concluded was an Enemy of the People.
No sane human being gives a metric rat's ass about what Oracle wants, except possible for the purposes of impeding it more efficiently. Frankly, if this is RH's goal, more power to 'em.
You may want to change your terminology, then. Publicly admitting you like to leave some stuff broke isn't doing your reputation any favors.
Selective patching for reasons other than "you don't necessarily want to consume all of those fixes" I could understand, if I were to stipulate the hypothetical that some of the "fixes" aren't really "bug fixes" but optional enhancements. But really, in RH's kernel history, I can't remember very many of those (actually, I can't remember any).
So, yeah, if you're saying you want to selectively leave some stuff broken, more power to you. You'll just have to work a bit harder to sustain your... brokenness.
But most system owners just want the bugs fixed. For that majority, RH's change means either no change at all, or minimal change if their build and checkout processes require diffs.
Well, if they're not based on RH, they're going to have their own pipeline to the kernel patches. If nothing else, those patches should find their way back into the primary kernel repository. (Maybe. I dunno. Do Linus and company routinely freeze out distro-provided kernel changes?)
The only "risk" is if there's some earthshakingly novel patch that RH comes up with and releases in-channel, but other distro mainainers (and the keepers of All Kernel Goodness) choose not to accept even after RH releases it to the broader community (in keeping with their GPL obligations). Only then would RH's approach be a minor pain, because you'll have to back it out of a full-kernel source diff and figure out which parts matter (and haven't shown up yet in your own distro's upstream).
All the changes go together and implement one big patch. What "patch identifiers" RH used in their own patching process are is irrelevant as it gets.
Since the objective is a kernel identical to RH's, there's no need to obsessively worry about which of RH's patches were applied or not, because the correct answer is "all of them".
This approach has absolutely no downside as long as RH continues to honor their GPL obligations and actually releases all code changes, whether by diff or full source.
Heh. I confused a German case mentioned up-thread with this one. Yeah, the IRS rule is emphatically applicable, since New Hampshire is still part of the United States.
If German law in this respect is like US law,Yes. Quoting: "Illegal activities. Income from illegal activities, such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must be included in your income on Form 1040, line 21, or on Schedule C or Schedule C-EZ (Form 1040) if from your self-employment activity. "
Oh, "after they have to give it back?" The convict in question didn't "give it back". The victims haven't gotten anything "back". The criminal is "paying a fine". You pay income tax on income, whether you pocket the money, pay your car payment, or pay a parking ticket. Same basis here. He collected the income without paying the tax. That fact that he also owes the money to someone else (the fine) is irrelevant.
will leave the United States government in an interesting quandry if it proceeds to success.
The US was vociferous in supporting the award of the Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, in the face of the Chinese government's strident opposition. What will it do when an organization it considers "treasonous" is a Nobel candidate?
Just for payback... I mean, symmetry... China should publicly back Wikileaks' bid.
I'm not sure I'm following what you mean by "official OS builds." If it starts with the source of a legitimate Android release, it's an "official OS build". And you can install the appropriate Google Apps package any time you need, as long as you can patch a ROM.
If I understand your implications, my modded HTC Desire running CyanogenMod 7.0 is "unofficial", and has no access to the official market. Which is false, since I have the full Gingerbread-compatible Google suite in here, including Market.
In Android, you can't use a third-party app store unless you explicitly enable it, since it defaults "Off".
The real risks are two-fold:
You're willing to risk enabling out-of-official-market application installation because you're "smart", but it turns out you're not smart enough to avoid a trojaned app; or
Someone infiltrates the official market with a trojaned app, at which point your only salvation is carefully studying the privileges required by the app and refusing to use an app that seems to be asking for unneeded permissions.
I've wondered about the real likelihood of the latter. I don't see much obvious evidence of diligence in the official Marketplace, judging from the squillions of obvious copyright violations (unlicensed e-books, for instance), but maybe someone is specifically looking for malware and succeeding in keeping it out.
"a few pieces of foam insulation [breaking] free of the external fuel tank on the way up" weren't expected to be a safety concern on Columbia's final mission, too.
I suspect it's 19,045 lines of random advertising domains pointed at 127.0.0.1, plus your own hostname pointing to 127.0.0.1 also. But yes, it's much longer. Much much longer. You win the HOSTS epeen contest, as long as "functional" isn't a criterion.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah. It's been a long time since I've thought about sacrifices to the line eater.
An old religion worshiping an unforgiving and primitive god.
I guess if your online writing style was incubated in the Usenet era, it might have enough quirks and idiosyncrasies to be identifiable.
This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: "HUGE SUCCESS".
100 of which are meta keys
"Heh. You'll love this feature. Watch this... 'meta'-'alt'-'bucky'-'left-wokka'-'shift'-both-'control's-'compose'-'fish'-'right-alt'... crap, ran out of fingers, press 'q' for me....thanks... hehe, I just sent a Zippy the Pinhead quote as an SMS to everyone on my contacts list. Sweet, eh?"
Too bad they can't arrange to lose the right editors.
Wikipedia appears to be the Web 2.0 equivalent of urban flight and blight: anyone with a clue is ditching fast, and pretty soon, the only ones left in the "inner city" will be criminals and psychos
You know what? The title says "Faster than a bullet." Not "Faster than all bullets." So, frankly, even if the vehicle is rolling downhill unpowered, it's faster than a bullet still in its cartridge and packaged in the box, and therefore, the headline is still technically true. And, as every good bureaucrat knows, "technically correct is the best kind of correct."
Sheesh. I can't believe I'm forced to defend Slashdot editorial practice, and with that kind of contorted example. But this "That's not a bullet...now that's a bullet!" stuff is just getting over the top.
Good point. The closest Socialism has ever come to working is when it availed itself of the State right to execute narrow-minded right-wing whiners, along with anyone else the Great Leader concluded was an Enemy of the People.
No sane human being gives a metric rat's ass about what Oracle wants, except possible for the purposes of impeding it more efficiently. Frankly, if this is RH's goal, more power to 'em.
You may want to change your terminology, then. Publicly admitting you like to leave some stuff broke isn't doing your reputation any favors.
Selective patching for reasons other than "you don't necessarily want to consume all of those fixes" I could understand, if I were to stipulate the hypothetical that some of the "fixes" aren't really "bug fixes" but optional enhancements. But really, in RH's kernel history, I can't remember very many of those (actually, I can't remember any).
So, yeah, if you're saying you want to selectively leave some stuff broken, more power to you. You'll just have to work a bit harder to sustain your... brokenness.
But most system owners just want the bugs fixed. For that majority, RH's change means either no change at all, or minimal change if their build and checkout processes require diffs.
Well, if they're not based on RH, they're going to have their own pipeline to the kernel patches. If nothing else, those patches should find their way back into the primary kernel repository. (Maybe. I dunno. Do Linus and company routinely freeze out distro-provided kernel changes?)
The only "risk" is if there's some earthshakingly novel patch that RH comes up with and releases in-channel, but other distro mainainers (and the keepers of All Kernel Goodness) choose not to accept even after RH releases it to the broader community (in keeping with their GPL obligations). Only then would RH's approach be a minor pain, because you'll have to back it out of a full-kernel source diff and figure out which parts matter (and haven't shown up yet in your own distro's upstream).
All the changes go together and implement one big patch. What "patch identifiers" RH used in their own patching process are is irrelevant as it gets.
Since the objective is a kernel identical to RH's, there's no need to obsessively worry about which of RH's patches were applied or not, because the correct answer is "all of them".
This approach has absolutely no downside as long as RH continues to honor their GPL obligations and actually releases all code changes, whether by diff or full source.
I hope they'll make some movies exploring other areas of the Blade Runner universe
Besides this one?
"Soldier" was not a great film, but it was interesting, and peripherally related to Blade Runner.
Two words:
"internal passport"
I suspect that horrid phrasing was an improvement. I imagine the earliest versions of that phrase were something like "has overtookened".
Hm. That word is perfectly cromulent.
Heh. I confused a German case mentioned up-thread with this one. Yeah, the IRS rule is emphatically applicable, since New Hampshire is still part of the United States.
If German law in this respect is like US law,Yes. Quoting: "Illegal activities. Income from illegal activities, such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must be included in your income on Form 1040, line 21, or on Schedule C or Schedule C-EZ (Form 1040) if from your self-employment activity. "
Oh, "after they have to give it back?" The convict in question didn't "give it back". The victims haven't gotten anything "back". The criminal is "paying a fine". You pay income tax on income, whether you pocket the money, pay your car payment, or pay a parking ticket. Same basis here. He collected the income without paying the tax. That fact that he also owes the money to someone else (the fine) is irrelevant.
Only if you're here to glue captions on our cats.
will leave the United States government in an interesting quandry if it proceeds to success.
The US was vociferous in supporting the award of the Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, in the face of the Chinese government's strident opposition. What will it do when an organization it considers "treasonous" is a Nobel candidate?
Just for payback... I mean, symmetry... China should publicly back Wikileaks' bid.
I'm not sure I'm following what you mean by "official OS builds." If it starts with the source of a legitimate Android release, it's an "official OS build". And you can install the appropriate Google Apps package any time you need, as long as you can patch a ROM.
If I understand your implications, my modded HTC Desire running CyanogenMod 7.0 is "unofficial", and has no access to the official market. Which is false, since I have the full Gingerbread-compatible Google suite in here, including Market.
There's a checkbox for that.
In Android, you can't use a third-party app store unless you explicitly enable it, since it defaults "Off".
The real risks are two-fold:
I've wondered about the real likelihood of the latter. I don't see much obvious evidence of diligence in the official Marketplace, judging from the squillions of obvious copyright violations (unlicensed e-books, for instance), but maybe someone is specifically looking for malware and succeeding in keeping it out.
We need new buttons.
"While you were reading Tolkein, I was listening to Streisand."
I think I've point out this eerie coincidence elsewhere but... "Meego"... "Amiga"... oooOOOOooo.... they almost sound alike.
"a few pieces of foam insulation [breaking] free of the external fuel tank on the way up" weren't expected to be a safety concern on Columbia's final mission, too.
I like to point this out to illustrate that humans have fucked up the SI as well
SI was much better before humans got involved. I guess.
I am trying to think who may have invented SI, before the advent of humanity. Alien astronauts? God? Cthulhu? FSM? Morgoth? the Hainish?
/shrug
It's a mystery.
I suspect it's 19,045 lines of random advertising domains pointed at 127.0.0.1, plus your own hostname pointing to 127.0.0.1 also. But yes, it's much longer. Much much longer. You win the HOSTS epeen contest, as long as "functional" isn't a criterion.
+1 Right on the Money
I commented upthread, so my marvelous modpoints go unused here. Alas.
If you want to talk about fracturing teh intarwebs, these scenarios, and this incident, and this routing-based DDOS, are the ones to discuss. Not multiple DNS roots.