Incorrect. You could have at least tried to check Wikipedia before posting ignorant comments. This is directly from their page (check the link if you want source references).
Pot, kettle, much? I specifically referenced Super PACs. From that very page:
Super PACs[edit]
Super PACs, officially known as "independent-expenditure only committees," may not make contributions to candidate campaigns or parties, but may engage in unlimited political spending independently of the campaigns. Unlike traditional PACs, they can raise funds from individuals, corporations, unions, and other groups without any legal limit on donation size.[19]
it's only a bad idea if the police have control over the recordings... then you would see incriminating footage getting lost or deleted (and blamed on "equipment failure" )
Even if the police have control, after some time, ordinary people would see a pattern: "no recording == suspicious behaviour by the police". Then, turning off the camera isn't going to provide much protection to a police officer.
Corporations can create PACs, but cannot contribute to them.
After Citizens United, they can fund Super PACs.
They can (after the SCOTUS decision) fund media information about candidates but cannot endorse for or against any candidates
In other words, corporations can put unlimited money towards echoing a candidate's talking points, as long as they don't coordinate with with candidate. However, as Stephen Colbert [I think] pointed out, Super PACs can apparently have an office next door to a candidate, have staff who work for both, but still not be coordinating with that candidate.
As far as I can tell, the banned activities are:
Give money either directly or indirectly (via a PAC) to a candidate.
Directly endorse/oppose a candidate
But, as I have pointed out above, they can use their own money to promote the same message as a candidate.
When I subscribed to Comcast a while back, there was a 4 day outage. By the second day, I found out that it was due to an attack on the DNS servers.
Comcast runs DNS servers? Wow, perhaps I did not need to run my own for all these years! On the other hand, I have not had any problems at my home LAN due to DNS going down.
That's exactly what I said, but in different language.
Umm, no, it isn't. You quoted a statement that companies are banned from "spending money to influence federal elections.", whereas the quote I provided shows that companies can spend money on "electioneering communications", which I think includes spending money to influence federal elections.
I think that you missed the note at the beginning of that page:
Note: Portions of this publication may be affected by the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC. Essentially, the Court's ruling permits corporations and labor organizations to use treasury funds to make independent expenditures in connection with federal elections and to fund electioneering communications.
It's only carpooling or "sharing the ride" if it's non-profit.
That's one possible definition. Let me suggest another: It's only sharing if the driver would drive to the same (or very nearby) location without the other people in the car.
and I've lost count of the amount of times when I simply wanted to just find a way to make the init system restart a service automatically when it crashes
I cannot understand what your problem is. I have systems that run continuously for years without processes dying. I have systems where the OOM killer inadvertantly kills some system task, in which case, simply re-starting that task isn't likely to be a helpful response.
From the perspective of re-starting system tasks, systemd is a solution to a non-problem.
The point is that although it happened it's isolated
My point is that your experience is meaningless in the context of how many machines are affected. Yes, it may be a small percentage of machines that are affected, but how small? 1%?.1%,.01%? I have not seen any figures published on this.
PS.
Please, please, look up the definitions of "to affect" and "to effect". Make sure you are looking at definitions of the verbs, not nouns.
Yes there was and as I read about it I thought "Oh crap, We have 40k systems that might be effected." but not one had a bsod so I was very relieved
And in my small office, we had one machine that was affected. So what's your point? Clearly MS screwed up with bad updates. You were just lucky, probably because you buy from a single supplier, whose machines were not affected.
It is a single council, speaking as a single entity. One council says; two councils say.
This is British English style. In British English, when referring to certain entities that are made up of many people (such as sports teams), the plural is often used. However, in the case of this story, I am not sure that this would apply to "Council" in this manner.
I should also point out that tax revenues per head are only higher in Scotland if oil and gas revenues are included in the calculations. Otherwise, they are broadly similar to UK average.
Even if oil and gas are included, spending per head in Scotland is approximately 1,400 more than UK average, while revenues are about 1,700 more than UK average -- really quite a small difference.
Half of your argument is missing. You need the revenues collected information ("taxes per head"). If you get that and do the math, then you've got something.
Really? That's all you have? Not even a citation to prove a point?
The GGP claimed 2 things (1: more taxes per head, 2: less spending per head). I showed that the second was false. The other claim (greater taxes per head), I left alone. There is no math involved.
The persistence of per capita public expenditure lower in England than elsewhere continues to attract calls for the formula to be renegotiated. Using figures for the financial year 2006/2007,[4] if a UK-wide per capita average were a notional 100%, identifiable per capita expenditure on services in England would be 97%, in Scotland 117%, in Wales 111% and in Northern Ireland 127% (this does not take account of non-identifiable expenditure, such as defence and debt interest, which are deemed to be for the benefit of the entire UK, regardless as to where the money is actually spent). In cash, this would work out as (per person):[5]
With that said, I think governments should use open standards for data, document storage and interfaces where available, and avoid products (proprietary or otherwise) that do not support such standards.
As long as the products really do support the standard and the standard doesn't allow blobs of proprietary data formats.
Which means when you get a kernel update things stop working until you fiddle with the drivers.
No, what it means is that you completely failed to understand what the KMOD drivers and DKMS do.
In the case of the former, they ensure that the drivers work over multiple kernel revisions and in the case of the latter, the kernel modules are automatically re-built on boot up.
I think it was just a few years ago that they stopped reimbursing, saying that home Internet is now normal, and the VPN use doesn't increase the cost.
Since the Appeals court decided that plans with unlimited minutes and text were not a barrier to employers being held responsible for a portion of cellphone fees, the ruling could also apply to home Internet connections.
In Linux, there is no ABI. Drivers have to be accepted and included in the kernel source tree. Yes really. It's that fucked up.
This is complete BS. Drivers can be delivered as source and built on the target machine or as binaries with the appropriate packageing. For example, drivers can be delivered like the
ElRepo kABI-tracking kmods (this includes such things as the Nvidia drivers), or installed via DKMS.
What is true however is that, without an open-source shim layer, drivers have to be delivered as source, which some closed-source bigots hate.
Since some of the updates were for security fixes, this gives hackers time to analyze and reverse engineer the original fault, then use it against systems before there is a fix available.
That's dead. Today, if the destination mail agent exists, it's probably up and immediately reachable via a fast connection. So a modern mail fowarder should accept the incoming email via SMTP, and then, while holding the incoming connection open, send the email on to the destination mail agent. Any problems are immediately reported to the sender via SMTP status code.
2. Exchange (default setup) accepts all emails to the destination domain and later sends a reject message if the destination mailbox doesn't exist, so your proposal adds nothing to systems where the end mailserver is Exchange.
Yes, it was limited. So much so that Skype could not receive incoming calls on WP7 unless the app was open (and not in the background). This was a WP7 limitation.
Any 2nd year physics student should be able to laugh this garbage right off a lab bench without even running an experiment.
Any good science student should be aware that our understanding of physics changes over time. Clearly this device is unlikely because it requires a change to the "laws" of physics.
The article explains why any good scientist should be able to laugh this off based on the reported experimental results.
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Pot, kettle, much? I specifically referenced Super PACs. From that very page:
Even if the police have control, after some time, ordinary people would see a pattern: "no recording == suspicious behaviour by the police". Then, turning off the camera isn't going to provide much protection to a police officer.
After Citizens United, they can fund Super PACs.
In other words, corporations can put unlimited money towards echoing a candidate's talking points, as long as they don't coordinate with with candidate. However, as Stephen Colbert [I think] pointed out, Super PACs can apparently have an office next door to a candidate, have staff who work for both, but still not be coordinating with that candidate.
As far as I can tell, the banned activities are:
Give money either directly or indirectly (via a PAC) to a candidate.
Directly endorse/oppose a candidate
But, as I have pointed out above, they can use their own money to promote the same message as a candidate.
Comcast runs DNS servers? Wow, perhaps I did not need to run my own for all these years! On the other hand, I have not had any problems at my home LAN due to DNS going down.
Umm, no, it isn't. You quoted a statement that companies are banned from "spending money to influence federal elections.", whereas the quote I provided shows that companies can spend money on "electioneering communications", which I think includes spending money to influence federal elections.
That's one possible definition. Let me suggest another: It's only sharing if the driver would drive to the same (or very nearby) location without the other people in the car.
I cannot understand what your problem is. I have systems that run continuously for years without processes dying. I have systems where the OOM killer inadvertantly kills some system task, in which case, simply re-starting that task isn't likely to be a helpful response.
From the perspective of re-starting system tasks, systemd is a solution to a non-problem.
My point is that your experience is meaningless in the context of how many machines are affected. Yes, it may be a small percentage of machines that are affected, but how small? 1%? .1%, .01%? I have not seen any figures published on this.
PS. Please, please, look up the definitions of "to affect" and "to effect". Make sure you are looking at definitions of the verbs, not nouns.
And in my small office, we had one machine that was affected. So what's your point? Clearly MS screwed up with bad updates. You were just lucky, probably because you buy from a single supplier, whose machines were not affected.
This is British English style. In British English, when referring to certain entities that are made up of many people (such as sports teams), the plural is often used. However, in the case of this story, I am not sure that this would apply to "Council" in this manner.
It appears there was some negotiation over the shutdown and perhaps giving up the domain name was done in order to secure the user database:
I should also point out that tax revenues per head are only higher in Scotland if oil and gas revenues are included in the calculations. Otherwise, they are broadly similar to UK average.
Even if oil and gas are included, spending per head in Scotland is approximately 1,400 more than UK average, while revenues are about 1,700 more than UK average -- really quite a small difference.
Really? That's all you have? Not even a citation to prove a point?
The GGP claimed 2 things (1: more taxes per head, 2: less spending per head). I showed that the second was false. The other claim (greater taxes per head), I left alone. There is no math involved.
Oh, really? Because Wikipedia doesn't agree with you. Spending per person:
As long as the products really do support the standard and the standard doesn't allow blobs of proprietary data formats.
No, what it means is that you completely failed to understand what the KMOD drivers and DKMS do.
In the case of the former, they ensure that the drivers work over multiple kernel revisions and in the case of the latter, the kernel modules are automatically re-built on boot up.
In neither case do "things stop working".
Since the Appeals court decided that plans with unlimited minutes and text were not a barrier to employers being held responsible for a portion of cellphone fees, the ruling could also apply to home Internet connections.
Employees may not be called on their cellphones about work-related matters.
This is complete BS. Drivers can be delivered as source and built on the target machine or as binaries with the appropriate packageing. For example, drivers can be delivered like the ElRepo kABI-tracking kmods (this includes such things as the Nvidia drivers), or installed via DKMS.
What is true however is that, without an open-source shim layer, drivers have to be delivered as source, which some closed-source bigots hate.
Since some of the updates were for security fixes, this gives hackers time to analyze and reverse engineer the original fault, then use it against systems before there is a fix available.
1. Not quite what you suggest, but close.
2. Exchange (default setup) accepts all emails to the destination domain and later sends a reject message if the destination mailbox doesn't exist, so your proposal adds nothing to systems where the end mailserver is Exchange.
Yes, it was limited. So much so that Skype could not receive incoming calls on WP7 unless the app was open (and not in the background). This was a WP7 limitation.
Presumably, this paint and fibreglass has higher reflectivity, thus reducing climate change?
Any good science student should be aware that our understanding of physics changes over time. Clearly this device is unlikely because it requires a change to the "laws" of physics.
The article explains why any good scientist should be able to laugh this off based on the reported experimental results.