I find it telling that people here actually have a hard time believing a former KGB agent is using propaganda to influence a rival's election. Are you all too young to remember the cold war? Putin is a product of that time and it is apparent.
A foreign government hacked US political party email in an attempt to influence an election and all people care about are the same old party insider bullshit that has happened forever in party politics. People may not like to hear this but a political party can select or favor whoever they want. People don't have to like it but it isn't illegal. Hell, people didn't even used to get to nominate before. I voted for Bernie in the primary but get over it already. He lost. Now it's time to keep the most unqualified lunatic from obtaining the most important and powerful position in the world. We can discuss how to change the political process later. Like it or not only two people have a chance to be President now. Avoid the potential disaster of Trump and at least we'll still have a shitty political process to fix.
There is literally no way 25% of Bernie supporters vote for Trump. You don't even have to go that far back in time to see a similar phenomena. Remember the Puma's that weren't going to vote for Obama? They had bigger numbers at one point. The vast majority of them didn't vote for McCain and the vast majority of Bernie supporters won't vote for Trump.
Really? That really only works if people have static IPs and never move around. Otherwise you will still need some software or service that everyone connects to to keep track of who is who which kind of negates the whole peer to peer thing. You will need at least your OWN server. The point of the cloud is to move maintenance and upgrade costs into subscription costs which are easier to budget for. You don't need to worry about your server crashing and not having a backup or waiting for a restore, or worse yet using a peer to peer model where you are entirely dependent on the health and maintenance of someone's personal computer to store data. Not good. The other benefit of cloud based services is regulation. There is increasing regulation in the IT world and not having to worry about all the compliance issues because the cloud company has regular audits and certifications makes life a lot easier for smaller companies who would otherwise have to spend a lot of money to get these audits done. Using a peer to peer model is virtually impossible if you require compliance to any regulation.
Office 365 is great. It's good to see OSS try something similar. With O365 you get the ability to use BOTH local and web based apps. With office 365 you can use the web AND outlook to access email. You can install local versions of office AND use web based versions if you are not at YOUR computer. Now this depends on the package you sign up for but is an option. Also you get free upgrades and Non-profits get email for FREE. It's really a good deal for a lot of companies. It really gets rid of a lot of licensing hassles as well although those were of Microsoft's doing.
If the photos were owned by a corporation instead of an individual you can be sure they would be asking for 10 million or more and you wouldn't even be posting about it in Slashdot.
So much software, from Linux distributions (thanks to systemd, PulseAudio and NetworkManager), desktop environments (GNOME 3...are worse than what we had before this bubble started.
This is entirely subjective. I think every one of those things is better. I will admit that all of them (except NM for me) caused a little bit of a headache initially but now they are all superior in almost every way. I don't understand this thinking that I see in a lot of people that Linux should just stay stagnant. Before PulseAudio setting up different sound devices to work together along with mixing was a PITA. Before NetworkManager setting up profiles for different networks was a PITA. Before systemd there there was NO service system, only an old broken concept of init that didn't incorporate the concept of running services.
Tell me which of Trump's proposal's are good and we can debate that. I have no faith someone can have a coherent proposal about something they know nothing about and it has been demonstrated time and again in interviews that he doesn't know anything about the economy, foreign policy, or even math for that matter. Just look at his claim that he will ELIMINATE the debt in 8 years. Laughable. The guy is a fucking joke.
No offense but I don't think you know how taxation works. You can't just say well i'm in the 33% tax bracket federally and 10% locally so add those together and that's 43%. Throw in some Medicare and Social Security and that should be about 50% right? Wrong. First you're not paying an effective tax rate of 33% or 10% either because tax rates are only effective on income over the threshold. So say you make $189,301, the minimum amount for the 33% tax bracket, you will pay an effective rate of something like 22%. Just quickly looking at a tax calculator online it looks like California would be a little less than 8% effective rate. So that puts you at 30% without Medicare and Social Security. From the calculator that is about another 5%. So without ANY deductions for anything your effective rate would be about 35%. Considering the wealth of deductions available and your salary it shouldn't be hard to find an accountant that can probably get you under 30% or lower.
Well, the Iron Curtain and the Warsaw Pact arose after a European nation (Germany), with what the Soviets believed to be support from the USA and Britain, launched a war of extermination against all Slavs in 1941.
Considering the Germans were the US and UK's sworn enemy in WWII the Russians would have to be fucking idiots to believe that by the time each nation entered the war.
Eventually the USA would stand alone as the last place where billionaires could feast while the poor starved in gutters. To avert this horrible threat, the billionaires decreed that all "communist takeovers" must be fought to the last local soldier.
Wow. Just wow. You have to be fucking kidding me. Now I know you're either a troll or just fucking clueless. You're honestly arguing that both Communist Russia was a better system than the Capitalist US during the 20th century and the US is the only place where billionaires feast and the poor starve? That is just blatant ignorance. I heard it's great being a migrant worker in Qatar. Communist North Korea sounds great too. Maybe you should move there. It's a great system and no one starves.
The USSR, and then Russia, agreed with no argument at all to give up control of East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, and even Belarus and Ukraine
Places they took by FORCE. Places that had different cultures and languages. I had ancestors that left Poland because they didn't want to be a part of Communist Russia. Many left those countries for the same reason. You are whitewashing Russian history.
Your knowledge of history is short. The entire middle east was carved up into pieces by the Brits and the French forcing unlike people together. This was always a ticking time bomb. The US involvement didn't help but pretending all of the middle east's problems are strictly because of US involvement belies a lack of knowledge of the region and its history.
Two words: patch Tuesday. Server systems aren't systems designed to need rebooting two or three times just because it's Tuesday.
You are naive if you think that you can avoid rebooting for all Linux updates. Obviously a kernel update is going to require a reboot but a lot of other updates should also include a reboot but just because the OS doesn't force you to doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. If you avoid rebooting you can achieve long uptimes in either case. Also not all Windows updates require reboots.
As long as nothing ever goes wrong, no hardware ever fails, the system won't crash. That's typical desktop. Systems built for server use stay up as you hotswap failed parts or parts throwing warnings.
This is based on really old thinking. Most servers today are VMs that can be moved to and from physical hosts. Add to that that CPU failures are really really rare. I have never had a server CPU fail. Servers are turned over fairly quickly in the corporate world to keep up with warranty and licensing issues.
No, Windows is based on discretionary access control, DAC, not MAC. DAC is the 1960s approach. Nobody uses it,but Windows also has a silly little system they call MIC. It's an even more limited version of DAC in that it's based on levels. Any program run by any higher-level user can do anything to any file.
With mandatory access control, access is predefined saying which program has which kind of access to which objects, in which contexts. Linux has a couple of options for MAC; SELinux is the default for most distributions.
MIC is not a limited version of DAC. That is a seriously misunderstanding of MIC. MIC is more like a light version of MAC. SELinux is superior in this regard but is still often the first thing turned off by a lot a admins. The best security system available for Linux, GRSecurity, is an external patchset to Linux.
This is not science. An extrapolation of the so-called evidence to this degree is pure philosophy. You might as well call Ancient Aliens "science" based on your definition.
Scientists tend to suck at philosophy because philosophy often needlessly treads on pointless grounds like this exercise. Yes we could all be simulations. Good scientists and good philosophers know it doesn't matter. Most philosophy is horseshit. There is nothing more aggravating than having a philosopher interrupt your scientific argument to lend his two cents as if his opinion means anything.
Windows IS a desktop OS, not a network OS. Notice it's not usable except by clicking desktop icons?
Not true. Sure Powershell sucks but it is available.
A server OS doesn't require rebooting every week or every month
Seriously? This isn't 1999. I have Windows Servers up for much longer than that.
A server OS can handle hotswap hardware. I swap drives regularly, and we've even hotswapped a CPU
The only thing most people need to hotswap in a server are disks and that is easily done in Windows
A server OS has mandatory access control.
Windows has this.
the bottom line is that Windows is a very successful desktop operating system. One originally developed as a user-friendly shell for Disk Operating System
You really are working off of pre-2000 Windows knowledge. Current Windows implementations are not at all based on DOS despite their similarity to earlier Windows systems.
What bothers me the most is that I'm a Linux guy and you're making me defend Windows because you can't just say things that are not true.
Not likely buddy. Whenever I hear this I am reminded how the average American is not very dialed into politics. Trump is underwater nationally in likability in EVERY demographic. 70% of women won't vote for him. That is devastating in itself. I'm guessing this is one of the reason's he generates so much conversation. There are a lot of people out there who think this is more than a sideshow and they need to be brought to reality. This is JUST A SIDESHOW. Unless Trump wins 1237 delegates he WILL NOT be the nominee. It's not going to happen. I think he will have a tough time getting the necessary delegates now that the establishment is getting behind another guy who will never be president.
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I'm not so sure it's a smart move to just ignore him.
What did the hacks expose? That politics happens? No shit. There is nothing earth shattering in there.
I find it telling that people here actually have a hard time believing a former KGB agent is using propaganda to influence a rival's election. Are you all too young to remember the cold war? Putin is a product of that time and it is apparent.
Pfff. I will never bend to their will. I keep my post-it note under the keyboard.
In an organization that employs several engineers you should never give all the access to one person. That's just a bad security practice.
The sky is blue!
A foreign government hacked US political party email in an attempt to influence an election and all people care about are the same old party insider bullshit that has happened forever in party politics. People may not like to hear this but a political party can select or favor whoever they want. People don't have to like it but it isn't illegal. Hell, people didn't even used to get to nominate before. I voted for Bernie in the primary but get over it already. He lost. Now it's time to keep the most unqualified lunatic from obtaining the most important and powerful position in the world. We can discuss how to change the political process later. Like it or not only two people have a chance to be President now. Avoid the potential disaster of Trump and at least we'll still have a shitty political process to fix.
There is literally no way 25% of Bernie supporters vote for Trump. You don't even have to go that far back in time to see a similar phenomena. Remember the Puma's that weren't going to vote for Obama? They had bigger numbers at one point. The vast majority of them didn't vote for McCain and the vast majority of Bernie supporters won't vote for Trump.
No. Newt is a fucking idiot. Maybe we'll luck out and he'll be citizen one on his moon colony.
That is the funniest thing I have read today. Thank you.
Does anyone actually watch shitty cell phone recordings of concerts instead of buying the CD or going to a concert?
It was probably locked with a fingerprint.
Really? That really only works if people have static IPs and never move around. Otherwise you will still need some software or service that everyone connects to to keep track of who is who which kind of negates the whole peer to peer thing. You will need at least your OWN server. The point of the cloud is to move maintenance and upgrade costs into subscription costs which are easier to budget for. You don't need to worry about your server crashing and not having a backup or waiting for a restore, or worse yet using a peer to peer model where you are entirely dependent on the health and maintenance of someone's personal computer to store data. Not good. The other benefit of cloud based services is regulation. There is increasing regulation in the IT world and not having to worry about all the compliance issues because the cloud company has regular audits and certifications makes life a lot easier for smaller companies who would otherwise have to spend a lot of money to get these audits done. Using a peer to peer model is virtually impossible if you require compliance to any regulation.
Office 365 is great. It's good to see OSS try something similar. With O365 you get the ability to use BOTH local and web based apps. With office 365 you can use the web AND outlook to access email. You can install local versions of office AND use web based versions if you are not at YOUR computer. Now this depends on the package you sign up for but is an option. Also you get free upgrades and Non-profits get email for FREE. It's really a good deal for a lot of companies. It really gets rid of a lot of licensing hassles as well although those were of Microsoft's doing.
If the photos were owned by a corporation instead of an individual you can be sure they would be asking for 10 million or more and you wouldn't even be posting about it in Slashdot.
This is entirely subjective. I think every one of those things is better. I will admit that all of them (except NM for me) caused a little bit of a headache initially but now they are all superior in almost every way. I don't understand this thinking that I see in a lot of people that Linux should just stay stagnant. Before PulseAudio setting up different sound devices to work together along with mixing was a PITA. Before NetworkManager setting up profiles for different networks was a PITA. Before systemd there there was NO service system, only an old broken concept of init that didn't incorporate the concept of running services.
Tell me which of Trump's proposal's are good and we can debate that. I have no faith someone can have a coherent proposal about something they know nothing about and it has been demonstrated time and again in interviews that he doesn't know anything about the economy, foreign policy, or even math for that matter. Just look at his claim that he will ELIMINATE the debt in 8 years. Laughable. The guy is a fucking joke.
No offense but I don't think you know how taxation works. You can't just say well i'm in the 33% tax bracket federally and 10% locally so add those together and that's 43%. Throw in some Medicare and Social Security and that should be about 50% right? Wrong. First you're not paying an effective tax rate of 33% or 10% either because tax rates are only effective on income over the threshold. So say you make $189,301, the minimum amount for the 33% tax bracket, you will pay an effective rate of something like 22%. Just quickly looking at a tax calculator online it looks like California would be a little less than 8% effective rate. So that puts you at 30% without Medicare and Social Security. From the calculator that is about another 5%. So without ANY deductions for anything your effective rate would be about 35%. Considering the wealth of deductions available and your salary it shouldn't be hard to find an accountant that can probably get you under 30% or lower.
Considering the Germans were the US and UK's sworn enemy in WWII the Russians would have to be fucking idiots to believe that by the time each nation entered the war.
Wow. Just wow. You have to be fucking kidding me. Now I know you're either a troll or just fucking clueless. You're honestly arguing that both Communist Russia was a better system than the Capitalist US during the 20th century and the US is the only place where billionaires feast and the poor starve? That is just blatant ignorance. I heard it's great being a migrant worker in Qatar. Communist North Korea sounds great too. Maybe you should move there. It's a great system and no one starves.
Places they took by FORCE. Places that had different cultures and languages. I had ancestors that left Poland because they didn't want to be a part of Communist Russia. Many left those countries for the same reason. You are whitewashing Russian history.
Your knowledge of history is short. The entire middle east was carved up into pieces by the Brits and the French forcing unlike people together. This was always a ticking time bomb. The US involvement didn't help but pretending all of the middle east's problems are strictly because of US involvement belies a lack of knowledge of the region and its history.
You are naive if you think that you can avoid rebooting for all Linux updates. Obviously a kernel update is going to require a reboot but a lot of other updates should also include a reboot but just because the OS doesn't force you to doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. If you avoid rebooting you can achieve long uptimes in either case. Also not all Windows updates require reboots.
This is based on really old thinking. Most servers today are VMs that can be moved to and from physical hosts. Add to that that CPU failures are really really rare. I have never had a server CPU fail. Servers are turned over fairly quickly in the corporate world to keep up with warranty and licensing issues.
MIC is not a limited version of DAC. That is a seriously misunderstanding of MIC. MIC is more like a light version of MAC. SELinux is superior in this regard but is still often the first thing turned off by a lot a admins. The best security system available for Linux, GRSecurity, is an external patchset to Linux.
This is not science. An extrapolation of the so-called evidence to this degree is pure philosophy. You might as well call Ancient Aliens "science" based on your definition.
Scientists tend to suck at philosophy because philosophy often needlessly treads on pointless grounds like this exercise. Yes we could all be simulations. Good scientists and good philosophers know it doesn't matter. Most philosophy is horseshit. There is nothing more aggravating than having a philosopher interrupt your scientific argument to lend his two cents as if his opinion means anything.
Not true. Sure Powershell sucks but it is available.
Seriously? This isn't 1999. I have Windows Servers up for much longer than that.
The only thing most people need to hotswap in a server are disks and that is easily done in Windows
Windows has this.
You really are working off of pre-2000 Windows knowledge. Current Windows implementations are not at all based on DOS despite their similarity to earlier Windows systems. What bothers me the most is that I'm a Linux guy and you're making me defend Windows because you can't just say things that are not true.
Not likely buddy. Whenever I hear this I am reminded how the average American is not very dialed into politics. Trump is underwater nationally in likability in EVERY demographic. 70% of women won't vote for him. That is devastating in itself. I'm guessing this is one of the reason's he generates so much conversation. There are a lot of people out there who think this is more than a sideshow and they need to be brought to reality. This is JUST A SIDESHOW. Unless Trump wins 1237 delegates he WILL NOT be the nominee. It's not going to happen. I think he will have a tough time getting the necessary delegates now that the establishment is getting behind another guy who will never be president.