As an American it saddens me to truthfully say that most Americans today are dumbasses. Most especially, those who regularly ingest the mental poison that is Fox News are the dumbest of the dumb and - not surprisingly for a group locked into the Religious Right - believe their bullshit with religious fervor and are thus immutable to logic and reason. Jesus wept.
...those entities that benefit the most from open source software - be they large commercial enterprises or government agencies - should be the ones to contribute the most. To be fair, many companies and government agencies (SELinux, etc.) HAVE contributed back in many ways, but what seems to be missing in most of their projects is any desire to deeply investigate some of the core under-pinnings that are taken for granted until they blow up in some very visible fashion (Heartbleed, anyone?) instead of creating a shiny new language/framework/etc. to make it easier to create the latest appity-app. Too bad.
Actually, Avatax has been doing this for many years. Yeah, it's not free but it easily handles all these situations. Saying any variation of "it just can't be done!" is pure 100% organic, dolphin-free bullshit.
Try cancelling DirecTV. I did, but - dang! - what an experience! First, there is ZERO way to cancel online. You MUST call in to them. Next, prepare yourself for a lengthy "we can drop your price!" pitches (which, TBH, if that's your game, consider it a freebie from me to you) all the way through - and I am not making this up! - "you're making me very sad by cancelling." It ALMOST would have been easier just to cancel my credit card....
While I don't disagree with your analysis, let me differ... Fundamentally, there is a nexus between design, engineering and production. A three-legged stool, if you will. I would submit that a national economy cannot long subsist on one (or even two) legs of that stool, and we have arbitraged at least 2 of of those legs to an economy that - while efficient - is, at heart, a Communist Dictatorship and we in the west ignore what we have wrought to our peril.
Same way that all of the "domestic" brands like IBM and HP became supplanted by Lenovo and Acer/... As a capitalist, modern capitalism not only sucks, it's stupid.
Could be that - seeing as how they are the world leaders in high-speed rail, advanced manufacturing, etc. - that they have learned how to "leap forward" in a different way that, while no less threatening to us as a country, does not seem to elicit the same knee-jerk reaction. Hence, we'll lose, cause we're dumb as shit, exemplified by goobers like you who rely on slogans as a substitute for thinking.
Haven't they learned the lesson of Modern American Capitalism(TM) yet? Crikey, for a tenth of the money they'd spend to start an ISP, they could just buy a few carefully chosen politicians and - voila!
You're almost half-right. The Economist magazine has been following this closely. China has long been one of the main destinations for plastic and - especially - paper refuse from western countries. They recycle it into new cardboard packaging for the next round of shipped goods. Likewise plastic waste is recycled into other plastics. They *could* do that pretty efficiently until recently as their labor costs have risen. A positive side-effect for them is to watch us squirm under the weight of our own waste.
You beat me to it. The fact that it is Windows 10 only is an automatic deal-breaker for me. While I certainly understand some corp dudes/dudettes are stuck, but I will NEVER run any Windows later than 7, and that only for a specific DAW software solution. I want an OS, not a continually soul-sucking, ever-shifting, "cloud-based" system for my personal use. Apps like gmail, sure. Base OS? Nah.
The Trump administration and their Pravda - Fox News - spread stupid and easily disproven lies to advance their agenda. And me here without my heart pills handy...Damn!
Has anyone shown any POC code that tricks out the Python runtime? Also, given that Python is all open-source, it would seem that the community which focuses on the runtime component (yes, I know it's the same guys proposing this - bear with me) would have pretty good checks on things, especially buffer overflows, etc.) Having said that - and obviously not being a Python guru - I'm kinda surprised to learn that even with the amazing plethora of Python modules, there is not already a similar logging/tracing capability available. Yes! Full steam ahead!
Let's be real. First, if your are running ANY variation of: "... a web and ssh server behind a dynamic DNS solution. I do not want my firewall machine to live on the same machine as the server, and since electricity is fiendishly expensive here in Ontario (thank you, Ontario Liberals) I cannot afford to run a separate full host as a firewall, but a commodity router flashed with custom firmware as NAT and firewall." and are blaming "Ontario Liberals" and high energy prices (really?!?), then you've got much bigger problems that what you present. (i.e. pure ideological thinking vs utilitarian - look it up.)
Thanks! There are so many unanswered details about this "question" and the premise - all I need is a great router to be safe from hacking! - is obviously wrong on SO many levels.
THIS is the kind of hyper-over-reaction we've sadly come to accept as "normal". A LABEL somehow means "stop selling coffee in California since they think it's a carcinogen." That's as dumbass as can be. Sean Hannity is just dying to interview you.
1) As a proud, card-carrying, tree-hugging Liberal(TM) I'm dismayed by this as it feeds into that whole "Gummint Bad" mentality that can be fed by such bizarre rulings.
2) As long as there is no outright ban or special tax, ala the "soda tax", which is just stupid, on coffee, then labelling is, IMO, just spreading knowledge. Look at the labels on every gas pump warning that gas fumes are bad. Well, D'uh! As a gas-jockey back in the day, I might have liked to know, but still would likely have made the same - but fully informed - decision to keep running out to to fill up each car that pulled to the pumps. YMMV.:-)
This is a pretty dumb statement for one with such a low UID. First, this was never intended to stop criminal-criminal transactions, but those where cash is used with a legitimate business (criminal-citizen), either to launder cash or just buy something without having a citizen's normal paper trail. Think cars, houses, even businesses. Does that help you understand?
Oh, I don't know...let's start with: saving lives and debilitating injuries; allowing homebound people who can no longer drive to (safely!!) get to the grocer, doctor, etc. You know - moron kind of stuff. (Fucking Idiot!!)
...who both lives in a rural are AND has been an advocate for this kind of technology long before it was remotely feasible (mid-1980s), I am excited about any advance in this realm. I've lost way too damned many friends and fam to "bitterly cling" to my self-driving car. And I say this as a proud former owner of a 1970 Ford Torino Cobra with the 429 CJ engine, shaker hood and rear window louvers (came THIS close to getting a Boss 429 Mustang), 4-speed manual, etc. Fun times. Things are different today, though....
Sadly, because we, somehow, have allowed this great infrastructure we call "the internet" to be as filled with (security) holes as a collander.
At this point, we re just imitating the Dutch boy quickly plugging holes in the dike while at the same time realizing that we'll run out of fingers long before all of the holes are plugged.
If anyone can spot an opportunity to bilk marks out of their dollars while feathering their own nests (https://www.amazon.com/Where-Are-Customers-Yachts-Street/dp/0471770892), it would - yes! - be that "vampire squid" epitomized by GS.
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As an American it saddens me to truthfully say that most Americans today are dumbasses. Most especially, those who regularly ingest the mental poison that is Fox News are the dumbest of the dumb and - not surprisingly for a group locked into the Religious Right - believe their bullshit with religious fervor and are thus immutable to logic and reason. Jesus wept.
...those entities that benefit the most from open source software - be they large commercial enterprises or government agencies - should be the ones to contribute the most.
To be fair, many companies and government agencies (SELinux, etc.) HAVE contributed back in many ways, but what seems to be missing in most of their projects is any desire to deeply investigate some of the core under-pinnings that are taken for granted until they blow up in some very visible fashion (Heartbleed, anyone?) instead of creating a shiny new language/framework/etc. to make it easier to create the latest appity-app.
Too bad.
Actually, Avatax has been doing this for many years. Yeah, it's not free but it easily handles all these situations.
Saying any variation of "it just can't be done!" is pure 100% organic, dolphin-free bullshit.
Try cancelling DirecTV. I did, but - dang! - what an experience!
First, there is ZERO way to cancel online. You MUST call in to them.
Next, prepare yourself for a lengthy "we can drop your price!" pitches (which, TBH, if that's your game, consider it a freebie from me to you) all the way through - and I am not making this up! - "you're making me very sad by cancelling."
It ALMOST would have been easier just to cancel my credit card....
While I don't disagree with your analysis, let me differ...
Fundamentally, there is a nexus between design, engineering and production. A three-legged stool, if you will.
I would submit that a national economy cannot long subsist on one (or even two) legs of that stool, and we have arbitraged at least 2 of of those legs to an economy that - while efficient - is, at heart, a Communist Dictatorship and we in the west ignore what we have wrought to our peril.
Same way that all of the "domestic" brands like IBM and HP became supplanted by Lenovo and Acer/...
As a capitalist, modern capitalism not only sucks, it's stupid.
Could be that - seeing as how they are the world leaders in high-speed rail, advanced manufacturing, etc. - that they have learned how to "leap forward" in a different way that, while no less threatening to us as a country, does not seem to elicit the same knee-jerk reaction. Hence, we'll lose, cause we're dumb as shit, exemplified by goobers like you who rely on slogans as a substitute for thinking.
Haven't they learned the lesson of Modern American Capitalism(TM) yet? Crikey, for a tenth of the money they'd spend to start an ISP, they could just buy a few carefully chosen politicians and - voila!
Dude, that's easy - to run Android Developer Studio! (And I thought Eclipse was a dog...)
You're almost half-right. The Economist magazine has been following this closely. China has long been one of the main destinations for plastic and - especially - paper refuse from western countries. They recycle it into new cardboard packaging for the next round of shipped goods.
Likewise plastic waste is recycled into other plastics. They *could* do that pretty efficiently until recently as their labor costs have risen.
A positive side-effect for them is to watch us squirm under the weight of our own waste.
You beat me to it. The fact that it is Windows 10 only is an automatic deal-breaker for me.
While I certainly understand some corp dudes/dudettes are stuck, but I will NEVER run any Windows later than 7, and that only for a specific DAW software solution.
I want an OS, not a continually soul-sucking, ever-shifting, "cloud-based" system for my personal use. Apps like gmail, sure. Base OS? Nah.
The Trump administration and their Pravda - Fox News - spread stupid and easily disproven lies to advance their agenda. And me here without my heart pills handy...Damn!
It's already NVRAM. Yep, just the old core memory boards, but without the need to rewrite after every read.
Has anyone shown any POC code that tricks out the Python runtime?
Also, given that Python is all open-source, it would seem that the community which focuses on the runtime component (yes, I know it's the same guys proposing this - bear with me) would have pretty good checks on things, especially buffer overflows, etc.)
Having said that - and obviously not being a Python guru - I'm kinda surprised to learn that even with the amazing plethora of Python modules, there is not already a similar logging/tracing capability available. Yes! Full steam ahead!
...dog bites man. Film at 11.
Let's be real.
First, if your are running ANY variation of: "... a web and ssh server behind a dynamic DNS solution. I do not want my firewall machine to live on the same machine as the server, and since electricity is fiendishly expensive here in Ontario (thank you, Ontario Liberals) I cannot afford to run a separate full host as a firewall, but a commodity router flashed with custom firmware as NAT and firewall." and are blaming "Ontario Liberals" and high energy prices (really?!?), then you've got much bigger problems that what you present. (i.e. pure ideological thinking vs utilitarian - look it up.)
Thanks! There are so many unanswered details about this "question" and the premise - all I need is a great router to be safe from hacking! - is obviously wrong on SO many levels.
THIS is the kind of hyper-over-reaction we've sadly come to accept as "normal". A LABEL somehow means "stop selling coffee in California since they think it's a carcinogen."
That's as dumbass as can be. Sean Hannity is just dying to interview you.
1) As a proud, card-carrying, tree-hugging Liberal(TM) I'm dismayed by this as it feeds into that whole "Gummint Bad" mentality that can be fed by such bizarre rulings.
:-)
2) As long as there is no outright ban or special tax, ala the "soda tax", which is just stupid, on coffee, then labelling is, IMO, just spreading knowledge. Look at the labels on every gas pump warning that gas fumes are bad. Well, D'uh! As a gas-jockey back in the day, I might have liked to know, but still would likely have made the same - but fully informed - decision to keep running out to to fill up each car that pulled to the pumps.
YMMV.
...JOBS, JOBS, JOBS! He just didn't mention that they would be Chinese jobs.
This is a pretty dumb statement for one with such a low UID.
First, this was never intended to stop criminal-criminal transactions, but those where cash is used with a legitimate business (criminal-citizen), either to launder cash or just buy something without having a citizen's normal paper trail. Think cars, houses, even businesses.
Does that help you understand?
Oh, I don't know...let's start with: saving lives and debilitating injuries; allowing homebound people who can no longer drive to (safely!!) get to the grocer, doctor, etc. You know - moron kind of stuff. (Fucking Idiot!!)
...who both lives in a rural are AND has been an advocate for this kind of technology long before it was remotely feasible (mid-1980s), I am excited about any advance in this realm.
I've lost way too damned many friends and fam to "bitterly cling" to my self-driving car.
And I say this as a proud former owner of a 1970 Ford Torino Cobra with the 429 CJ engine, shaker hood and rear window louvers (came THIS close to getting a Boss 429 Mustang), 4-speed manual, etc. Fun times.
Things are different today, though....
Sadly, because we, somehow, have allowed this great infrastructure we call "the internet" to be as filled with (security) holes as a collander.
At this point, we re just imitating the Dutch boy quickly plugging holes in the dike while at the same time realizing that we'll run out of fingers long before all of the holes are plugged.
If anyone can spot an opportunity to bilk marks out of their dollars while feathering their own nests (https://www.amazon.com/Where-Are-Customers-Yachts-Street/dp/0471770892), it would - yes! - be that "vampire squid" epitomized by GS.