Thanks, those links provide illuminating views from a variety of perspectives.The Forbes article on past espionage - it's author, Arthur Herman, his Hudson Institute, are interesting... Hong Kong Free Press makes raises some good points about CEO behavior, a different view point, again partisan. Seen the Guardian article previously.
So I am swayed that "we should not trust Huawei, here, look at their past actions of espionage, and current actions and behavior of the executives, and we have some alternatives".
But who can we trust?
"OK Google, my house is on fire" "Playing This house is on fire by AC/DC on Google Play music"
2nd and subsequent attempts:
"OK Google, my house is on fire" "OK, I'll remember that"
Google home has little genuine usefulness in general beyond novelty, and it is not suitable for people if they do not already have a ability to already use technology and a comprehension of it's many current limitations in consumer grade products.
Way too much of "Sorry", and it's lack of understanding of even the simplest ability to have a conversation to learn the context of a command really makes it only a small step forwards from talking dolls for children. Even if someone does have a control device, the propensity of the system to answer on the wrong device (which lacks the functionality of the other) means if the control device is in ear-shot, it makes life even worse. Here are some examples: "OK Google, help I've fallen over" "Sorry, I don't understand"
"OK Google, call care line" "Sorry I can't make calls yet"
"OK Google, call the ambulance" "Sorry, I can't help with that yet"
"OK Google, switch on the kitchen lights" "My apologies, I don't understand"
Like much consumer technology, I suspect most are are destined for land fill, perhaps having provided a few moments of novelty.
Automated plate scanners are used in Australia. Every time you pass a patrol car, your car is checked for infringements. Most patrol cars have the ability to check this in real time, given mobile Internet access. There are other agencies than the police who have access to the technolgy (local government etc.). Here's a reference from 2012 for Australia's NSW Police force. http://www.illawarramercury.co...
I don't see why it should be a reason to be "proud". Gay is the way he is rather than something he has chosen but it does not confer some form of superiority on him. If he was a paedeophile though, that definitely *would* be a reason to be "unproud".
Whatever, see if I care.
Well you do seem to care enough to make a point about not caring.
You also manage to put the words 'gay' and 'paedeophile' close together in your comment, which is a glib and common association make by people who at best, are ill-informed. There are so many things one could be 'not proud of' and you picked one likely to cause offense to gay men..
For me, 'gay pride' is a reaction to the predudices of others. I was told, as a kid, I should be ashamed of myself for being gay. I was physically intimidated and attacked, because the physical, sexual love I wanted to experience was different to most. I was bullied at school. My parents were fearful of stigma which would be attached to them for having a gay child. I felt noone I knew approved of me and I was ashamed.
My 'gay pride' comes from mostly getting through all that and becoming a successful human being, and for helping others by campaigning and lobbying for change to make life better for similar poeple. Standing up and saying something helps other people overcome their fears. Tim Cook, is heard around the world, in Kenya, perhaps, where recent regressive laws are resulting in violence and murder of gay men.
First, they are serving content from a varnish cache. That is how they cope with the load. Which is fine for anonymous users, but it's not really Drupal handling the load.
Drupal sucks badly for personalised content. Just look at the simple advice myphpadmin gives to see how badly it's tables are indexed by default, or it's own 'devel' module to see just how long some of those queries to it's own caching system (mysql backed) take.
Keep throwing hardware at it and it comes good (at a price). So do most things.
Same here in Australia, we get broccoli all year around... Even in it's colder parts Australia is pretty hot in summer, and it's grown in Australia, rather than being imported from a far-away place (although perhaps it uses environmentally unsound quantities of precious water resources to produce).
It will be very hard to run two projects for the same amount of money as there will be duplicated costs in so many areas regarding the building and running of the infrastructure.
If was living, working or travelling in a remote region with not other coverage, and you've just had a major accident, and need an air ambulance, or even just a recovery truck to get me and my car home, I'd be really happy I'd got a device like that!
Just look on ebay to see how well Iridium phones hold their value. There's probably a growing market for them in Australia.
Iridium even have spare satellites they can manouvre into position to replace broken ones. and with the latest phone, easy access to a 9,600bps data service by plugging your phone into a USB port, which is good enough to access your email if you use a remote text client such as Mutt, Pine, etc.Their 2,400 data connection. And their low orbit satellite constellation provides true global coverage, work on the sides of mountains, and in depressions between sand dunes, etc. Iridium to Iridium calls don't get relayed via any ground points.
Here in Australia lots remote area travelers and workers carry sat phones. They are much more useful than an EPIRB (Emergency Position Indication Radio Beacon) or Spot device or similar, for cases of major vehicle breakdown or medical emergency when in remote regions because you can make arrangements, and under those circumstances, most people don't begrudge the high price of calls. If you live in a region where there is no other telephone service, you can get a government subsidy covering 85% of the cost of the device (but not the calls)
In short: there's *nothing wrong with using resources at your disposal*. If your machine has lots of memory, and you can get better performance by building a large, in-memory cache, then by all means, do it! This is *not* the same as "bloat". It's selecting the right algorithm given your target execution environment.
Except that you tend to be using hardware which consumes more energy resources and precious materials for both running and manufacturing. Even with the combination of cheaper and more energy efficient hardware to offset this, this tends to simply encourage more of it to being used.
Yep. Several weeks after I sent a letter to his Australian Labour Party Cabinet Minister's office on this subject I have yet to receive even an acknowledgment.
My own Australian Labour Party representative (also a cabinet Minister) also failed to respond.
The main opposition party's Shadow Minister of Communications, Senator Nick Minchin (Australian Senate is the Australian Federal Upper House) at least responded with an acknowledgment.
Australian democracy in action, as it really is - arrogant and self serving for those who are in power at the time.
From the 'one the ground' photos, it looks like there is a fair chance the google shot was done on a different day, as it's cloudy on the day of the event, which presumably prevents the satelite from taking pictures of the ground beneath the clouds.
I'd suggest this is a more likely story:
Dance party promoter makes up story which will attract punters to event, using the story of the smiley, widely associated with the use of the party drug Ecstacy.
"A smiley big enough to be seen from Space!"
Punters know it's going to be their sort of event, because they love to take party drugs.
I doubt Telstra are taking this line in the interests of their customers however (now that really would be a first).
The Telsta monopoly (yes, it is a monopoly) is currently having a very public row with the Australian government regarding it's 'fibre to the node' proposal, in the context of the ongoing and upcoming election issue of broadband access to the Australian consumer (including small/medium business consumers).
I seriously doubt Telstra have any moral or ethical issues this sort of proposed monitoring.
The less bandwith they supply to people, the more money they can potentially make from their infrastructure. They will just be attempting to piss off the government even more, perhaps setting this up to be a bargaining chip for later negotiations and for use in future lobbying.
It is just that for once, the outcome is good for the consumer.
Right. There is little enough space in cattle class (even with the extra leg room) without having the nerd next to you decide they are going to get the laptop out. Especially when clambering over each other to get to the toilet etc...
They should leave the internet access and the PC power supply points for business and first class, where you can operate without disturbing the person next to you. If you want to work on a flight, you (or your boss) should be prepared to pay for that.
I do a lot of long haul flights, Sydney to UK. I read books and listen to music to fill my time. I really try respect the personal space of the people around me, and I love it when the same respect is returned.
Yes the Australian company I work for host our servers in USA because bandwidth costs are so much cheaper, and we use quite a bit of that. Which is a bit crazy when you thing of that traffic, having done an intercontinental jump, actually ends up back over here in Australia taking up space on pretty much the same infrastructure. We can live with the slight latency well enough. Our sites are certainly not un-responsive (well one is... a Xen domU instance...).
Under-cover hero's, evil corporations, running from the law, big money, corruption, here and there talk of guns and plots of murder... they should make this into a movie!
Well better than a movie, I hope Pamela Jones one day writes a book about this. I have always enjoy her perspective of the world, and while she may not be unbiased, in this case, she's pretty much right on the mark for how it actually is.
So I am glad PJ is back on the site more, after an absence. Unless she's on a witness protection program, I am inclined to believe her if she says she was sick, (rather than 'running' from the warrant officers).
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Thanks, those links provide illuminating views from a variety of perspectives.The Forbes article on past espionage - it's author, Arthur Herman, his Hudson Institute, are interesting... Hong Kong Free Press makes raises some good points about CEO behavior, a different view point, again partisan. Seen the Guardian article previously. So I am swayed that "we should not trust Huawei, here, look at their past actions of espionage, and current actions and behavior of the executives, and we have some alternatives". But who can we trust?
Enough evidence has already been publicly released to damn them. I don't know why the Brits are turning traitor.
Could you cite the links to this publicly released evidence? There is certainly a lot of noise... Thanks.
Lots of enterprises rely on RHEL 7 / CentOS 7, and those are currently shipping PHP 5.4.16.
And if you stay up to date, they are patched (but frequently lacking newer features), at least for RHEL. The Package Versions - Why our package versions are (almost) never bumped up?.
"OK Google, my house is on fire"
"Playing This house is on fire by AC/DC on Google Play music"
2nd and subsequent attempts:
"OK Google, my house is on fire"
"OK, I'll remember that"
Google home has little genuine usefulness in general beyond novelty, and it is not suitable for people if they do not already have a ability to already use technology and a comprehension of it's many current limitations in consumer grade products.
Way too much of "Sorry", and it's lack of understanding of even the simplest ability to have a conversation to learn the context of a command really makes it only a small step forwards from talking dolls for children. Even if someone does have a control device, the propensity of the system to answer on the wrong device (which lacks the functionality of the other) means if the control device is in ear-shot, it makes life even worse. Here are some examples:
"OK Google, help I've fallen over"
"Sorry, I don't understand"
"OK Google, call care line"
"Sorry I can't make calls yet"
"OK Google, call the ambulance"
"Sorry, I can't help with that yet"
"OK Google, switch on the kitchen lights"
"My apologies, I don't understand"
Like much consumer technology, I suspect most are are destined for land fill, perhaps having provided a few moments of novelty.
Pamela Jones, please return to the Groklaw desk
Hopefully with a better UX than was used last time!
Your point is...?
Automated plate scanners are used in Australia. Every time you pass a patrol car, your car is checked for infringements. Most patrol cars have the ability to check this in real time, given mobile Internet access. There are other agencies than the police who have access to the technolgy (local government etc.). Here's a reference from 2012 for Australia's NSW Police force. http://www.illawarramercury.co...
I don't see why it should be a reason to be "proud". Gay is the way he is rather than something he has chosen but it does not confer some form of superiority on him. If he was a paedeophile though, that definitely *would* be a reason to be "unproud".
Whatever, see if I care.
Well you do seem to care enough to make a point about not caring.
You also manage to put the words 'gay' and 'paedeophile' close together in your comment, which is a glib and common association make by people who at best, are ill-informed. There are so many things one could be 'not proud of' and you picked one likely to cause offense to gay men..
For me, 'gay pride' is a reaction to the predudices of others. I was told, as a kid, I should be ashamed of myself for being gay. I was physically intimidated and attacked, because the physical, sexual love I wanted to experience was different to most. I was bullied at school. My parents were fearful of stigma which would be attached to them for having a gay child. I felt noone I knew approved of me and I was ashamed.
My 'gay pride' comes from mostly getting through all that and becoming a successful human being, and for helping others by campaigning and lobbying for change to make life better for similar poeple. Standing up and saying something helps other people overcome their fears. Tim Cook, is heard around the world, in Kenya, perhaps, where recent regressive laws are resulting in violence and murder of gay men.
-R
For whatever reason the one of the original links was no longer available when I revisited one of the links in the OP today:
http://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2013/10/an-update-on-toyota-and-unintended-acceleration/
But Google Cache still has a copy...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2013/10/an-update-on-toyota-and-unintended-acceleration/
First, they are serving content from a varnish cache. That is how they cope with the load. Which is fine for anonymous users, but it's not really Drupal handling the load.
Drupal sucks badly for personalised content. Just look at the simple advice myphpadmin gives to see how badly it's tables are indexed by default, or it's own 'devel' module to see just how long some of those queries to it's own caching system (mysql backed) take.
Keep throwing hardware at it and it comes good (at a price). So do most things.
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Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
X-Drupal-Cache: HIT
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X-PF-Uncompressing: 1
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Same here in Australia, we get broccoli all year around... Even in it's colder parts Australia is pretty hot in summer, and it's grown in Australia, rather than being imported from a far-away place (although perhaps it uses environmentally unsound quantities of precious water resources to produce).
-R
With double or triple glazing you wouldn't hear your neighbours whining so much?
It will be very hard to run two projects for the same amount of money as there will be duplicated costs in so many areas regarding the building and running of the infrastructure.
-R
If was living, working or travelling in a remote region with not other coverage, and you've just had a major accident, and need an air ambulance, or even just a recovery truck to get me and my car home, I'd be really happy I'd got a device like that!
-R
Just look on ebay to see how well Iridium phones hold their value. There's probably a growing market for them in Australia.
Iridium even have spare satellites they can manouvre into position to replace broken ones. and with the latest phone, easy access to a 9,600bps data service by plugging your phone into a USB port, which is good enough to access your email if you use a remote text client such as Mutt, Pine, etc.Their 2,400 data connection. And their low orbit satellite constellation provides true global coverage, work on the sides of mountains, and in depressions between sand dunes, etc. Iridium to Iridium calls don't get relayed via any ground points.
Here in Australia lots remote area travelers and workers carry sat phones. They are much more useful than an EPIRB (Emergency Position Indication Radio Beacon) or Spot device or similar, for cases of major vehicle breakdown or medical emergency when in remote regions because you can make arrangements, and under those circumstances, most people don't begrudge the high price of calls. If you live in a region where there is no other telephone service, you can get a government subsidy covering 85% of the cost of the device (but not the calls)
-R
In short: there's *nothing wrong with using resources at your disposal*. If your machine has lots of memory, and you can get better performance by building a large, in-memory cache, then by all means, do it! This is *not* the same as "bloat". It's selecting the right algorithm given your target execution environment.
Except that you tend to be using hardware which consumes more energy resources and precious materials for both running and manufacturing. Even with the combination of cheaper and more energy efficient hardware to offset this, this tends to simply encourage more of it to being used.
-R
Yep. Several weeks after I sent a letter to his Australian Labour Party Cabinet Minister's office on this subject I have yet to receive even an acknowledgment.
My own Australian Labour Party representative (also a cabinet Minister) also failed to respond.
The main opposition party's Shadow Minister of Communications, Senator Nick Minchin (Australian Senate is the Australian Federal Upper House) at least responded with an acknowledgment.
Australian democracy in action, as it really is - arrogant and self serving for those who are in power at the time.
Richard
From the 'one the ground' photos, it looks like there is a fair chance the google shot was done on a different day, as it's cloudy on the day of the event, which presumably prevents the satelite from taking pictures of the ground beneath the clouds.
I'd suggest this is a more likely story:
Dance party promoter makes up story which will attract punters to event, using the story of the smiley, widely associated with the use of the party drug Ecstacy.
"A smiley big enough to be seen from Space!"
Punters know it's going to be their sort of event, because they love to take party drugs.
Profit!
Running a Gentoo hardened Linux on amd64? No problem.
Being a Gentoo user, you compiled Virtual Box yourself from the source?
R
I doubt Telstra are taking this line in the interests of their customers however (now that really would be a first).
The Telsta monopoly (yes, it is a monopoly) is currently having a very public row with the Australian government regarding it's 'fibre to the node' proposal, in the context of the ongoing and upcoming election issue of broadband access to the Australian consumer (including small/medium business consumers).
I seriously doubt Telstra have any moral or ethical issues this sort of proposed monitoring.
The less bandwith they supply to people, the more money they can potentially make from their infrastructure. They will just be attempting to piss off the government even more, perhaps setting this up to be a bargaining chip for later negotiations and for use in future lobbying.
It is just that for once, the outcome is good for the consumer.
-RG
Right. There is little enough space in cattle class (even with the extra leg room) without having the nerd next to you decide they are going to get the laptop out. Especially when clambering over each other to get to the toilet etc...
They should leave the internet access and the PC power supply points for business and first class, where you can operate without disturbing the person next to you. If you want to work on a flight, you (or your boss) should be prepared to pay for that.
I do a lot of long haul flights, Sydney to UK. I read books and listen to music to fill my time. I really try respect the personal space of the people around me, and I love it when the same respect is returned.
-R
Yes the Australian company I work for host our servers in USA because bandwidth costs are so much cheaper, and we use quite a bit of that. Which is a bit crazy when you thing of that traffic, having done an intercontinental jump, actually ends up back over here in Australia taking up space on pretty much the same infrastructure. We can live with the slight latency well enough. Our sites are certainly not un-responsive (well one is... a Xen domU instance...).
-R
Under-cover hero's, evil corporations, running from the law, big money, corruption, here and there talk of guns and plots of murder... they should make this into a movie!
Well better than a movie, I hope Pamela Jones one day writes a book about this. I have always enjoy her perspective of the world, and while she may not be unbiased, in this case, she's pretty much right on the mark for how it actually is.
So I am glad PJ is back on the site more, after an absence. Unless she's on a witness protection program, I am inclined to believe her if she says she was sick, (rather than 'running' from the warrant officers).
-R
And me too...
-R
Then maybe he'd have a better understanding of Ethics.
-R