These gigantic corporations are not "U.S. companies" by any stretch of the imagination - if that term even has any meaning at all any more. They are me-first entities whose only allegiance is to themselves, and they operate globally with complete cynicism. If they can't defy regulations in secret (VW?) or win their case in court (Microsoft) or co-opt authorities and get regulations changed openly or behind the curtain, they will accommodate the players who are large enough that their citizens and corporations can't be forgone as customers. And that certainly includes both Europe and the U.S.
Optimistic USian here, still behind prodding my government back to a place worthy of repect in the World
You don't think Trump or any of the other likely Republican contenders would fundamentally change this stuff, do you? I happen to believe Cruz and possibly Paul would have some effect, but neither one has a snowball's chance in hell of getting anywhere. Certainly Clinton or Biden would wholeheartedly continue the lowering of the dark curtain over the U.S. Sanders I think would try to make meaningful changes but get nowhere against Congress.
if we don't improve out international reputation, we won't long have as many European allies
The U.S. is already a sick joke throughout the world, including Europe. This declaration reinforces that.
the companies in question are found to be colluding with criminal organizations like the NSA
I like the way you express yourself. The problem is that every citizen of the United States is in collusion with a rogue illegitimate government operating in blatant disregard for its own goddam Constitution and in open enmity to the people, for countenancing this abomination of an oligarchy without rising up and overthrowing it. Certainly the voters are, every time they vote for an establishment cog to be part of the vast conspiracy.
Just to make it clear that this is an observation, not a rallying cry, I am too, because I can't even imagine myself in open rebellion. Such is the way the ascendancy of evil undermines vitality.
Why not wait just a short while until all the jobs in the U.S. with wages above the slave level are wiped out; then build their factories in the U.S. where labor is going to be even cheaper.
By bringing wages in Japan, Australia and the USA down to Vietnam levels.
Yes. But not consumer costs. So the aforementioned will be not just reduced to Vietnam conditions, but the people will be wiped out. You can't live on a wage of 10 cents an hour if a cup of coffee costs you $5.
Well Plato said democracy only works with educated and informed voters. The problem is most voters are shit-brained morons who should have never been given the right to vote, because this is what happens. If you voted Democrat or Republican, you made this happen, SO FUCK YOU!
Well put. However, the unrealistic optimist will simply say that shows they are still not well enough educated and informed. The problem is in thinking that education and information are enough. You also need morality and rationality. And those cannot be taught. And it would be impractical as well as unwise to try to devise a voter IQ and morals test to weed out the riffraff. It's like Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Potter Stewart's official concurrence in a case decision: "hard-core pornography" was hard to define, but that "I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."
The poor guy later said "In a way I regret having said what I said about obscenity—that's going to be on my tombstone."
One can fantasize about a one-day coup in which a Junta declares the Democrat and Republican parties irretrievably corrupt and treasonous institutions, bans them with extreme prejudice, throws everyone who is a member out of national office and bans them from all future participation, and calls an immediate Election of National Salvation, and following the election turns back control after taking no other action whatever.
Governments and business who negotiate in secret are cowards.
The problem is that participating in a government, and running a corporation, are both activities that are highly attractive to avil, amoral psychopaths. The fact that they are seen as engaging in cowardly practices is secondary to the fact that they are psychopaths.
While I agree checksuming etc is stuff the array ought to do
If you mean parity data computation, I disagree. If you mean data-integrity and metadata-integrity checksumming and self-repair, I categorically and utterly disagree. Most RAID controllers have pathetic parity data computation performance. The CPU can chew through that much faster without even noticing. Back in the days of the single core 486 and Pentium, MAYBE it m,ade sense.
ZFS - I prefer to let the array handle all that stuff and use 'normal' filesystem like ext4.
You have my permission to continue to operate in the dark ages with inferior performance and reliability. It won't give you data-integrity and metadata-integrity checksumming and self-repair, snapshots, cloning, and architecturally-guaranteed freedom from corruption. Watch out for those RAID write-holes, which are absent in ZFS.
Zones - why bother, just run another VM.
You might as well say "hell, just install another dedicated machine". Yeah, it will work if you don't care much about efficiency. Zones are much lighter weight than VMs.
jails and Bhyve are a very, very faint suggestion of ZONES.
In what way?
Jails are just chroot on steroids. They have no console device, and no resource control. Setting them up, updating them, and working with them has been a tedious manual process (this is starting to be alleviated by ezjail, and by Warden in PC-BSD).
Zones have proper resource limits. The filesystem remapping is sparse, with a bunch of stuff linked read-only to the global filesystem. Those particular files thus get automatically updated when the host is updated. They have proper consoles. Creation of a basic zone is largely automated.
Actually, the illumos codebase, on which OpenIndiana is based, is far, far from dead.
But the frontpage of the OpenIndiana site has had a fork stuck in it for two years. There is some activity in the wiki, but if you only looked at the front page all you would see would be a time machine talking about "the latest" 2013 release, and a download link to same. There is no excuse for this. You could get the front page updated at the cost of buying a high school kid a couple of pizzas.
The frontpage of the IllumOS site just redirects you to a wiki which claims it has been "last updated" in 2013, though there is clear 2015 content. The blog link takes you to, again, 2013. This isn't quite as egregious, given that IllumOS, as far as I can figure out, isn't really a distro at all. It is a codebase feeding a number of distros.
I won't lower myself to the "Netcraft confirms" quote, but all this doesn't look healthy or encouraging at all.
Then one can get FreeBSD, w/ an iXsystems contract if support is important, and one will readily get 1 & 2, w/o having to fork out 2 arms and a leg to Oracle. As for 3, in what way are Zones superior to Jails, Bhyve and Capsicum?
I do have FreeBSD and I am very happy with the first two:-) I do not require support. But I find jails very obnoxious to work with and not really practical and feature-complete. They remind me a lot of the chroot-daemon band-aid in linux. They are getting better, with ezjail, PC-BSD's Warden and the like. Bhyve strikes me as a pale imitation/prototype of a proper VM framework. When I read the how-to, I just throw up my hands at the unreadiness. Maybe at some point it will reach a stage of usability. At this point it is nothing more than a science experiment, like KVM was initially. I would use the KVM port before BHyve at this point. But neither one of those does what Zones do - or linux containers, for that matter - lightweight but not TOO lightweight.
Capsicum is good tech. It looks promising. It will be something to watch in FreeBSD 11 when that arrives, and in the future.
Rather than get into a discussion of what "fringe platform" even means, here is the unbeatable trifecta that OpenSolaris had way back when, and its successors still have: 1) DTRACE 2) ZFS seamlessly integrated 3) Zones FreeBSD has DTRACE and seamless ZFS, but jails and Bhyve are a very, very faint suggestion of ZONES. Linux is way behind in that there is no DTRACE and there never can be a seamless ZFS (a GPL casualty), but KVM and Containers are excellent competitors to Zones.
I use ZFS both on FreeBSD and Linux (ZFSonLInux kernel module, which has to be integrated by compiling from source). I couldn't even begin to imagine trying to do without it.
1) Can someone make it very clear just what the relationship of OpenIndiana to IllumOS is?
2) How exactly does NexentaOS fit in? And NexentaStor? And StormOS? And SmartOS?
3) At least several of those I mentioned are open source/free, and I believe there are others. Why so many forks? Which one looks like the leader?
The product formerly (freely) available as OpenSolaris had a lot to recommend it. FreeBSD has been playing catchup and has come a long way, but is still lacking in various ways. Linux is an excellent product, but glaring probems exist in the direction it is going, and I don't see it ever coming close to matching the OpenSolaris feature set in my lifetime.
Why would or should any military or government for that matter have a problem bombing or attacking anyone, any building, or any organization who is directly aiding and comforting the enemy in a war?
Do you REALLY need an answer to that question? They should have a problem with it in the case of hospitals because (1) it is immoral, (2) it breaks all civilized conventions of combat, and (3) it is TERRIBLE public relations and plays its part in eroding international and domestic support for your war, and generates recruits for your enemy.
Every combatant in WW1 and WW2 exercised care to avoid attacking hospitals. Yes, there were occasional errors, but it says something that the big red crosses painted on hospital ships were considered more beneficial and safer than leaving them camouflaged - even though it gave a better target to aim at. Germans, Japanese, Ialians, and Allies - all painted these red crosses and expected them to be honored, and generally they were.
The idea of having a cheap consumer device that can so easily etch any bitmap with such fine detail intrigues me.
LightScribe doesn't "etch" anything. Using infrared light it reacts with a photoreactive dye. It's the same principle as recording to CDR. You don't "burn" anything when you record a CDR. You just modify a photoreactive dye.
From what I have read in Europe at least there is a perceived consumer resistance to urea injection, as it is seen as "something else that needs to be bought and paid for". It looks like in practice its not a big issue, with it costing under 1% of the fuel costs and only needing filling every 10,000 miles. Hell, in my younger days I needed a new set of tyres every 10,000 miles - though my driving has settled down a bit since then!
Agreed. Urea injection is effective and has minimal technical drawbacks beyond the "just another fluid level to monitor and be concerned with". One concrete drawback is that it takes up significant space, usually at the expense of the spare tire (toy replaces full-size) or the fuel tank capacity.
Not really true. From Executive Order 13526, Classified National Security Information [whitehouse.gov]:
Sec. 1.7. Classification Prohibitions and Limitations. (a) In no case shall information be classified, continue to be maintained as classified, or fail to be declassified in order to: (1) conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error; (2) prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency; (3) restrain competition; or (4) prevent or delay the release of information that does not require protection in the interest of the national security.
As if "U.S. agents acting on behalf of an illegitimate rogue government violating its own goddam Constitution" had no presence in Russia.
"Stop criticizing me! Billy did it too! Everybody does it!"
Sorry, that doesn't bear on the point or relieve the evil from criticism. Look, I'm an American. When I look at my country, I see it being cynically destroyed from within by the etablishment. I see not a care whatsoever given to our own interests. In fact, top down, White House first and foremost, but most definitely both political parties, they are all working to tear it apart and bankrupt it and enslave the people. They hate what it used to stand for when it was great.
When I look at Putin in Russia, I see a leader who is passionate about his homeland and people, and will not countenance various special-interest mafias tearing it apart. Do I agree with every one of his policies and decisions? Is he perfect? Hell no! But at least he does not hate his country and is not cynically working to destroy it. Most of all, he does not suck Globalist oligarchy dick.
He is also acting rationally in Syria and with respect to ISIS, something the US under Obama and the sick joke Kerry (and Clinton before him) and the cipher Ashton Carter and his predecessors have never done.
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These gigantic corporations are not "U.S. companies" by any stretch of the imagination - if that term even has any meaning at all any more. They are me-first entities whose only allegiance is to themselves, and they operate globally with complete cynicism. If they can't defy regulations in secret (VW?) or win their case in court (Microsoft) or co-opt authorities and get regulations changed openly or behind the curtain, they will accommodate the players who are large enough that their citizens and corporations can't be forgone as customers. And that certainly includes both Europe and the U.S.
You don't think Trump or any of the other likely Republican contenders would fundamentally change this stuff, do you? I happen to believe Cruz and possibly Paul would have some effect, but neither one has a snowball's chance in hell of getting anywhere. Certainly Clinton or Biden would wholeheartedly continue the lowering of the dark curtain over the U.S. Sanders I think would try to make meaningful changes but get nowhere against Congress.
The U.S. is already a sick joke throughout the world, including Europe. This declaration reinforces that.
I like the way you express yourself. The problem is that every citizen of the United States is in collusion with a rogue illegitimate government operating in blatant disregard for its own goddam Constitution and in open enmity to the people, for countenancing this abomination of an oligarchy without rising up and overthrowing it. Certainly the voters are, every time they vote for an establishment cog to be part of the vast conspiracy.
Just to make it clear that this is an observation, not a rallying cry, I am too, because I can't even imagine myself in open rebellion. Such is the way the ascendancy of evil undermines vitality.
Why not wait just a short while until all the jobs in the U.S. with wages above the slave level are wiped out; then build their factories in the U.S. where labor is going to be even cheaper.
Yes. But not consumer costs. So the aforementioned will be not just reduced to Vietnam conditions, but the people will be wiped out. You can't live on a wage of 10 cents an hour if a cup of coffee costs you $5.
Well put. However, the unrealistic optimist will simply say that shows they are still not well enough educated and informed. The problem is in thinking that education and information are enough. You also need morality and rationality. And those cannot be taught. And it would be impractical as well as unwise to try to devise a voter IQ and morals test to weed out the riffraff. It's like Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Potter Stewart's official concurrence in a case decision: "hard-core pornography" was hard to define, but that "I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."
The poor guy later said "In a way I regret having said what I said about obscenity—that's going to be on my tombstone."
One can fantasize about a one-day coup in which a Junta declares the Democrat and Republican parties irretrievably corrupt and treasonous institutions, bans them with extreme prejudice, throws everyone who is a member out of national office and bans them from all future participation, and calls an immediate Election of National Salvation, and following the election turns back control after taking no other action whatever.
The problem is that participating in a government, and running a corporation, are both activities that are highly attractive to avil, amoral psychopaths. The fact that they are seen as engaging in cowardly practices is secondary to the fact that they are psychopaths.
If you mean parity data computation, I disagree. If you mean data-integrity and metadata-integrity checksumming and self-repair, I categorically and utterly disagree. Most RAID controllers have pathetic parity data computation performance. The CPU can chew through that much faster without even noticing. Back in the days of the single core 486 and Pentium, MAYBE it m,ade sense.
You have my permission to continue to operate in the dark ages with inferior performance and reliability. It won't give you data-integrity and metadata-integrity checksumming and self-repair, snapshots, cloning, and architecturally-guaranteed freedom from corruption. Watch out for those RAID write-holes, which are absent in ZFS.
You might as well say "hell, just install another dedicated machine". Yeah, it will work if you don't care much about efficiency. Zones are much lighter weight than VMs.
Jails are just chroot on steroids. They have no console device, and no resource control. Setting them up, updating them, and working with them has been a tedious manual process (this is starting to be alleviated by ezjail, and by Warden in PC-BSD).
Zones have proper resource limits. The filesystem remapping is sparse, with a bunch of stuff linked read-only to the global filesystem. Those particular files thus get automatically updated when the host is updated. They have proper consoles. Creation of a basic zone is largely automated.
Please forgive the link to a PDF.
Razor-qt is not only linux-only, it is all but dead, as is LXQt. Which is, frankly, fine as long as Lumina continues to be perfected.
But the frontpage of the OpenIndiana site has had a fork stuck in it for two years. There is some activity in the wiki, but if you only looked at the front page all you would see would be a time machine talking about "the latest" 2013 release, and a download link to same. There is no excuse for this. You could get the front page updated at the cost of buying a high school kid a couple of pizzas.
The frontpage of the IllumOS site just redirects you to a wiki which claims it has been "last updated" in 2013, though there is clear 2015 content. The blog link takes you to, again, 2013. This isn't quite as egregious, given that IllumOS, as far as I can figure out, isn't really a distro at all. It is a codebase feeding a number of distros.
I won't lower myself to the "Netcraft confirms" quote, but all this doesn't look healthy or encouraging at all.
Wrong. FreeBSD has DTRACE and ZFS, but not Zones. None of the othe BSDs are even close.
I do have FreeBSD and I am very happy with the first two :-) I do not require support. But I find jails very obnoxious to work with and not really practical and feature-complete. They remind me a lot of the chroot-daemon band-aid in linux. They are getting better, with ezjail, PC-BSD's Warden and the like. Bhyve strikes me as a pale imitation/prototype of a proper VM framework. When I read the how-to, I just throw up my hands at the unreadiness. Maybe at some point it will reach a stage of usability. At this point it is nothing more than a science experiment, like KVM was initially. I would use the KVM port before BHyve at this point. But neither one of those does what Zones do - or linux containers, for that matter - lightweight but not TOO lightweight.
Capsicum is good tech. It looks promising. It will be something to watch in FreeBSD 11 when that arrives, and in the future.
I'll give you three reasons:
1) DTRACE
2) Seamlessly integrated ZFS
3) Zones
Rather than get into a discussion of what "fringe platform" even means, here is the unbeatable trifecta that OpenSolaris had way back when, and its successors still have:
1) DTRACE
2) ZFS seamlessly integrated
3) Zones
FreeBSD has DTRACE and seamless ZFS, but jails and Bhyve are a very, very faint suggestion of ZONES.
Linux is way behind in that there is no DTRACE and there never can be a seamless ZFS (a GPL casualty), but KVM and Containers are excellent competitors to Zones.
I use ZFS both on FreeBSD and Linux (ZFSonLInux kernel module, which has to be integrated by compiling from source). I couldn't even begin to imagine trying to do without it.
A letter is a symbol, you ... oh wait, I'm not playing this game.
1) Can someone make it very clear just what the relationship of OpenIndiana to IllumOS is?
2) How exactly does NexentaOS fit in? And NexentaStor? And StormOS? And SmartOS?
3) At least several of those I mentioned are open source/free, and I believe there are others. Why so many forks? Which one looks like the leader?
The product formerly (freely) available as OpenSolaris had a lot to recommend it. FreeBSD has been playing catchup and has come a long way, but is still lacking in various ways. Linux is an excellent product, but glaring probems exist in the direction it is going, and I don't see it ever coming close to matching the OpenSolaris feature set in my lifetime.
Do you REALLY need an answer to that question? They should have a problem with it in the case of hospitals because (1) it is immoral, (2) it breaks all civilized conventions of combat, and (3) it is TERRIBLE public relations and plays its part in eroding international and domestic support for your war, and generates recruits for your enemy.
Every combatant in WW1 and WW2 exercised care to avoid attacking hospitals. Yes, there were occasional errors, but it says something that the big red crosses painted on hospital ships were considered more beneficial and safer than leaving them camouflaged - even though it gave a better target to aim at. Germans, Japanese, Ialians, and Allies - all painted these red crosses and expected them to be honored, and generally they were.
Is that jeweller's rouge, or mortician's rouge?
You lost any possibility of me paying attention as soon as it became clear you don't even care enough to bother with 4th grade spelling.
1000 km? Wouldn't 1 Mm be a more canonical representation?
LightScribe doesn't "etch" anything. Using infrared light it reacts with a photoreactive dye. It's the same principle as recording to CDR. You don't "burn" anything when you record a CDR. You just modify a photoreactive dye.
Agreed. Urea injection is effective and has minimal technical drawbacks beyond the "just another fluid level to monitor and be concerned with". One concrete drawback is that it takes up significant space, usually at the expense of the spare tire (toy replaces full-size) or the fuel tank capacity.
Bingo. Excellent point.
"Stop criticizing me! Billy did it too! Everybody does it!"
Sorry, that doesn't bear on the point or relieve the evil from criticism. Look, I'm an American. When I look at my country, I see it being cynically destroyed from within by the etablishment. I see not a care whatsoever given to our own interests. In fact, top down, White House first and foremost, but most definitely both political parties, they are all working to tear it apart and bankrupt it and enslave the people. They hate what it used to stand for when it was great.
When I look at Putin in Russia, I see a leader who is passionate about his homeland and people, and will not countenance various special-interest mafias tearing it apart. Do I agree with every one of his policies and decisions? Is he perfect? Hell no! But at least he does not hate his country and is not cynically working to destroy it. Most of all, he does not suck Globalist oligarchy dick.
He is also acting rationally in Syria and with respect to ISIS, something the US under Obama and the sick joke Kerry (and Clinton before him) and the cipher Ashton Carter and his predecessors have never done.
Well, he has accomplished a helluva lot more than YOU have, and more than any of the other tools working in that den of foul unamerican repression.