Just playin' on the vi/emacs rivalry. Most non-emacs people I knew that had experience with it commented that it was a great operating environment and shell but a fairly crappy editor. Of course, the biggest difference is that having one on one's system doesn't break the other, and neither worms its way into every part of the OS.
That's because in-part design-by-committee ends up with the noisiest, stupidest person on the committee calling the shots, that project ends up catering to the lowest common denominator.
A large part of why Linux itself is successful is that while there's a lot of input, there's a single point of decision making in the form of Torvalds himself, and he's both smart enough to generally make good choices, and to listen to the debate and weigh the arguments to make a decision.
Lennart Poettering is no Linus Torvalds. Perhaps something to replace System V and BSD inits is necessary, but Poettering's work with pulseaudio is itself incomplete; the init system is far too important to trust to him when his sound daemon, a relatively small but important piece of the desktop system, isn't really finished to a polished state.
Besides, with the advent of the VM model for hosting and "cloud" where VMs are created and destroyed on an as-needed basis and automatically, stripping down the init process to the bare-minimum needed for a VM and using some kind of staging system to spawn the right conditions in the VM init process is probably more important than some all-knowing, all-seeing system that seems more tailored toward long-running, general-purpose computing anyway. The problem that SystemD solves isn't the new problem, it's the old one.
They've never been profitable. They have a revenue stream but their expenses dwarf it and exist solely to help soften the impact until their real intended model, self-driving cars with no human operators, are ready.
Unfortunately for investors, it's looking like Uber will never achieve that intention because Google's parent company will sue the hell out of them if it ever looks like self-driving tech out of Uber was based on Google/Waymo developments. If Uber doesn't basically scrap the whole self-driving program entirely and basically fire all staff that worked on it and destroy all records then they're always going to have that cloud of industrial espionage over them.
Either way I do not expect them to ultimately become profitable, and to fold at some point when it is demonstrated that true 100% self-drive cars are too many years out.
The exceptions are the children of the uber-wealthy. The ones that didn't have to work for the money and generally seem to make occupations of spending for its own sake.
Even worse, by the time the company got done designing then implementing the gold-plating and vajazzling, the phones were already obsolete, and the final nail in the coffin was the ability to produce replacement backs and cases by the tens of thousands in whatever color or print or texture that the user wanted, purchasable for $10-$100 each.
The only people that would buy what this company made are buying for the express purpose of showing off. Even among the rich that number might be fairly small as you have to be obscenely rich in order to spend money that frivolously without it starting to affect your bottom line, and even then not all obscenely rich people spend like drunken sailors on shore leave.
And apparently this station doesn't use any form of security on that link despite the means to transmit being very well known. You'd think they would spend the money to add some equipment at both ends to prevent actual takeover, so that the worst a future attack could do would be to silence the station.
Well, if the UK's equivalent of the FCC fines people for the language used, perhaps the person that did this chose a song that didn't have really any actual profanity in it to prevent the station from being fined for broadcasting profanity.
Funny that you're typing this on an old website that has arguably gotten just a little worse by the inclusion of Javascript and the adoption of a client-side model.
I watched the Web from its very inception become what it is, and it's ridiculous.
I don't agree that he should sleep easy. I will agree that what he's worrying about (at least per the article summary) is not the concern, but the whole, "Internet of Things," really should be instead called the Internet of Insecure and Exploitable Things.
Consider that tech companies, that theoretically understand the technology they're principally responsible for the development of, have trouble with information security and systems security. We have operating systems for even commercial applications of limited-scope like ATMs and Point of Sale systems that are vulnerable to many of the same exploits as desktop consumer operating systems. Do you expect Rheem or Daktronics or AO Smith or Carrier to be able to do even as good a job as a Microsoft or an Apple?
Now consider that not only do these systems communicate on the network generally, but the manufacturers are implementing the model where the customer has to use the vendor's systems on the Internet to control the device. Some do this for consumer devices because it's a convenient way to bypass the problems with ignorance of the user, and some do it for commercial applications to use the Meraki model, to get the customer to pay and pay and pay because without the contract the device simply doesn't work anymore. Either way, the communications loop is not just from the end-user system like the phone, tablet, or computer on the user's LAN to device also on the LAN, but from the device to the firewall, across the Internet to whatever system the vendor has propped-up, then back across the Internet to whatever LAN the end user PC is on.
Daktronics uses Windows Embedded for their modern marquees, and there's no real security on the marquees. They run a website that the software on Windows Embedded connects to in order to check for changes to the marquee. Once the initial account is created for the organzation, the users can add more users, and in many cases the sign-shops that set up these accounts basically with full admin privileges, so that the users can add or delete more users. In a large organization simply managing legitimate users can be a real chore as neither the sign-shop nor Daktronics place emphasis on end-user security.
Now, those servers that Daktronics maintains would be potentially quite a prize, if they can be exploited and if the protocols that update the signs allow for more updates besides the imagery on the sign then that pathway allows for there to be an exploited device on a corporate network that is not necessarily well understood by the IT department and may not be able to be serviced like a normal PC, despite running an OS very much line a normal PC has.
That's only one example. One can probably find similar problems with most other, "Internet of Things," devices. I would encourage every IT department to harshly segregate these devices on the network, no traffic to anything on the corporate network except for possibly ICMP to verify up/down, Internet traffic limited to only those servers required for management, and then only those ports required for that communication. Deny the ability to touch the corporate network, deny the ability to reach any third-party command-and-control servers.
That was on my mind, we weren't having Enron-scale blackouts but we did have two or three blackouts that summer, one of which lasted many hours. At the time it felt like it was going to do nothing but continue.
I suspect the climate where I live is a little less temperate than yours.
I've got an evaporative cooler out on the patio to cool the 110 degrees fahrenheit (~43 celsius) temps so that the outdoor cats have someplace to go that's a little nicer, the air coming out of the evap is 74 degrees F (~23 C) and the water temp is 68 F (20C) in the sump of the evap cooler. A friend of mine cools his whole house for the bulk of the summer with an Australian-sourced Bonaire Durango system that works exceedingly well. Neither draws much power, just enough to run a 1 horsepower 120VAC 60Hz motor. I think the sticker on my Mastercool unit says something like 7 Amps draw.
Given how effective an evap cooler ("swamp cooler") is, you may want to consider looking into it. They're getting to be more expensive than they used to be but they're still far, far cheaper to purchase and to operate than a heatpump or other refrigeration-cycle air conditioner.
I see them as the opposite; depending on the home's energy needs a fuel that is capable of being handled by the end-homeowner might make for a good backup means of power production, or as a supplementary means of power production if the solar array is not up to the task during some times of year when an HVAC plant might need more capacity than the panels can generate.
If anything one should seek to run on solar first, as a system with no moving parts may well be a lot easier for the homeowner to maintain, but that doesn't mean that other methods of power generation are entirely out of bounds or unsuited. If anything the lesson we can take from rural property owners that don't have a lot of options for electric grid tie can help us evaluate what may work elsewhere, at least as far as single-family homes are concerned.
I wonder how homes in temperate climates or warmer that have natural gas service to the home would do. In such circumstances it would possibly make financial sense to have a small generator for the little bit of nighttime power needed. The home would spend its days powered by solar, and possibly powered by natural gas at night. The natural gas could power the home during the day too, if the demand exceeds the panel capacity.
Many years ago, the house I lived-in was owned by my roommate's family, and the house had natural gas service. I mused over the possibility of taking the small block V8 out of a car I was going to junk-out. Didn't do it in-part because a 318 cubic inch V8 was far too big for the power needs and since I didn't own the home there was a good chance I would move before the cost of the generator head, the transfer switch, the throttle controller, and everything else required for the project was recuperated.
Yet somehow porn continues to make money enough to afford to make actual productions with directors, producers, cameramen, makeup artists, and the renting of homes and other places to use as sets, in addition to paying the cast.
It could well be that like a lot of other industries, as little as ten percent of the consumers of pornography drive ninety percent of the sales. This has been noted in other industries that have been argued as vices, like alcohol and tobacco, it's the alcoholics and chain-smokers that make the profits for the sellers, not the occasional drinkers or social smokers. It may well be that the vast majority of those that in some way use porn would not really ever pay anything substantial for it, but those few that would pay are willing to spend a lot of money for the productions that their favorite actresses or actors are cast-in, or for any ancillary products associated with those cast that are available for sale.
Either way, just because you or I find it strange that someone would pay for such content, doesn't mean that everyone else feels the same way. Clearly that the market exists indicates otherwise.
I wish that more employers whose workers didn't do shift-work or didn't have to work closely with other people were more flexible about downtime during the day. There have been days when a quick 30 minute nap would've really benefited me, but I've seen coworkers get in trouble when discovered asleep at their desks.
It might actually. Last time I looked at Apple's website it wasn't exactly clear what models were new-generation and what were old-generation, and since at times Apple has offered both I would hate to spend that kind of money without getting some of the advanced features.
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Just playin' on the vi/emacs rivalry. Most non-emacs people I knew that had experience with it commented that it was a great operating environment and shell but a fairly crappy editor. Of course, the biggest difference is that having one on one's system doesn't break the other, and neither worms its way into every part of the OS.
Find a new cat. If your cat was an outdoor cat one will probably take the territory before long anyway.
So what editor do you use?
That's because in-part design-by-committee ends up with the noisiest, stupidest person on the committee calling the shots, that project ends up catering to the lowest common denominator.
A large part of why Linux itself is successful is that while there's a lot of input, there's a single point of decision making in the form of Torvalds himself, and he's both smart enough to generally make good choices, and to listen to the debate and weigh the arguments to make a decision.
Lennart Poettering is no Linus Torvalds. Perhaps something to replace System V and BSD inits is necessary, but Poettering's work with pulseaudio is itself incomplete; the init system is far too important to trust to him when his sound daemon, a relatively small but important piece of the desktop system, isn't really finished to a polished state.
Besides, with the advent of the VM model for hosting and "cloud" where VMs are created and destroyed on an as-needed basis and automatically, stripping down the init process to the bare-minimum needed for a VM and using some kind of staging system to spawn the right conditions in the VM init process is probably more important than some all-knowing, all-seeing system that seems more tailored toward long-running, general-purpose computing anyway. The problem that SystemD solves isn't the new problem, it's the old one.
So SystemD is the Emacs of init?
closed course does not count for a whole lot when considering self-driving on public roads.
They've never been profitable. They have a revenue stream but their expenses dwarf it and exist solely to help soften the impact until their real intended model, self-driving cars with no human operators, are ready.
Unfortunately for investors, it's looking like Uber will never achieve that intention because Google's parent company will sue the hell out of them if it ever looks like self-driving tech out of Uber was based on Google/Waymo developments. If Uber doesn't basically scrap the whole self-driving program entirely and basically fire all staff that worked on it and destroy all records then they're always going to have that cloud of industrial espionage over them.
Either way I do not expect them to ultimately become profitable, and to fold at some point when it is demonstrated that true 100% self-drive cars are too many years out.
The exceptions are the children of the uber-wealthy. The ones that didn't have to work for the money and generally seem to make occupations of spending for its own sake.
Even worse, by the time the company got done designing then implementing the gold-plating and vajazzling, the phones were already obsolete, and the final nail in the coffin was the ability to produce replacement backs and cases by the tens of thousands in whatever color or print or texture that the user wanted, purchasable for $10-$100 each.
The only people that would buy what this company made are buying for the express purpose of showing off. Even among the rich that number might be fairly small as you have to be obscenely rich in order to spend money that frivolously without it starting to affect your bottom line, and even then not all obscenely rich people spend like drunken sailors on shore leave.
And apparently this station doesn't use any form of security on that link despite the means to transmit being very well known. You'd think they would spend the money to add some equipment at both ends to prevent actual takeover, so that the worst a future attack could do would be to silence the station.
Probably died of a perforated colon...
Or Lucille Bogan's "Shave 'em Dry".
Well, if the UK's equivalent of the FCC fines people for the language used, perhaps the person that did this chose a song that didn't have really any actual profanity in it to prevent the station from being fined for broadcasting profanity.
Did them a favor, really.
Funny that you're typing this on an old website that has arguably gotten just a little worse by the inclusion of Javascript and the adoption of a client-side model.
I watched the Web from its very inception become what it is, and it's ridiculous.
I don't agree that he should sleep easy. I will agree that what he's worrying about (at least per the article summary) is not the concern, but the whole, "Internet of Things," really should be instead called the Internet of Insecure and Exploitable Things.
Consider that tech companies, that theoretically understand the technology they're principally responsible for the development of, have trouble with information security and systems security. We have operating systems for even commercial applications of limited-scope like ATMs and Point of Sale systems that are vulnerable to many of the same exploits as desktop consumer operating systems. Do you expect Rheem or Daktronics or AO Smith or Carrier to be able to do even as good a job as a Microsoft or an Apple?
Now consider that not only do these systems communicate on the network generally, but the manufacturers are implementing the model where the customer has to use the vendor's systems on the Internet to control the device. Some do this for consumer devices because it's a convenient way to bypass the problems with ignorance of the user, and some do it for commercial applications to use the Meraki model, to get the customer to pay and pay and pay because without the contract the device simply doesn't work anymore. Either way, the communications loop is not just from the end-user system like the phone, tablet, or computer on the user's LAN to device also on the LAN, but from the device to the firewall, across the Internet to whatever system the vendor has propped-up, then back across the Internet to whatever LAN the end user PC is on.
Daktronics uses Windows Embedded for their modern marquees, and there's no real security on the marquees. They run a website that the software on Windows Embedded connects to in order to check for changes to the marquee. Once the initial account is created for the organzation, the users can add more users, and in many cases the sign-shops that set up these accounts basically with full admin privileges, so that the users can add or delete more users. In a large organization simply managing legitimate users can be a real chore as neither the sign-shop nor Daktronics place emphasis on end-user security.
Now, those servers that Daktronics maintains would be potentially quite a prize, if they can be exploited and if the protocols that update the signs allow for more updates besides the imagery on the sign then that pathway allows for there to be an exploited device on a corporate network that is not necessarily well understood by the IT department and may not be able to be serviced like a normal PC, despite running an OS very much line a normal PC has.
That's only one example. One can probably find similar problems with most other, "Internet of Things," devices. I would encourage every IT department to harshly segregate these devices on the network, no traffic to anything on the corporate network except for possibly ICMP to verify up/down, Internet traffic limited to only those servers required for management, and then only those ports required for that communication. Deny the ability to touch the corporate network, deny the ability to reach any third-party command-and-control servers.
That was on my mind, we weren't having Enron-scale blackouts but we did have two or three blackouts that summer, one of which lasted many hours. At the time it felt like it was going to do nothing but continue.
I suspect the climate where I live is a little less temperate than yours.
I've got an evaporative cooler out on the patio to cool the 110 degrees fahrenheit (~43 celsius) temps so that the outdoor cats have someplace to go that's a little nicer, the air coming out of the evap is 74 degrees F (~23 C) and the water temp is 68 F (20C) in the sump of the evap cooler. A friend of mine cools his whole house for the bulk of the summer with an Australian-sourced Bonaire Durango system that works exceedingly well. Neither draws much power, just enough to run a 1 horsepower 120VAC 60Hz motor. I think the sticker on my Mastercool unit says something like 7 Amps draw.
Given how effective an evap cooler ("swamp cooler") is, you may want to consider looking into it. They're getting to be more expensive than they used to be but they're still far, far cheaper to purchase and to operate than a heatpump or other refrigeration-cycle air conditioner.
I see them as the opposite; depending on the home's energy needs a fuel that is capable of being handled by the end-homeowner might make for a good backup means of power production, or as a supplementary means of power production if the solar array is not up to the task during some times of year when an HVAC plant might need more capacity than the panels can generate.
If anything one should seek to run on solar first, as a system with no moving parts may well be a lot easier for the homeowner to maintain, but that doesn't mean that other methods of power generation are entirely out of bounds or unsuited. If anything the lesson we can take from rural property owners that don't have a lot of options for electric grid tie can help us evaluate what may work elsewhere, at least as far as single-family homes are concerned.
I wonder how homes in temperate climates or warmer that have natural gas service to the home would do. In such circumstances it would possibly make financial sense to have a small generator for the little bit of nighttime power needed. The home would spend its days powered by solar, and possibly powered by natural gas at night. The natural gas could power the home during the day too, if the demand exceeds the panel capacity.
Many years ago, the house I lived-in was owned by my roommate's family, and the house had natural gas service. I mused over the possibility of taking the small block V8 out of a car I was going to junk-out. Didn't do it in-part because a 318 cubic inch V8 was far too big for the power needs and since I didn't own the home there was a good chance I would move before the cost of the generator head, the transfer switch, the throttle controller, and everything else required for the project was recuperated.
Yet somehow porn continues to make money enough to afford to make actual productions with directors, producers, cameramen, makeup artists, and the renting of homes and other places to use as sets, in addition to paying the cast.
It could well be that like a lot of other industries, as little as ten percent of the consumers of pornography drive ninety percent of the sales. This has been noted in other industries that have been argued as vices, like alcohol and tobacco, it's the alcoholics and chain-smokers that make the profits for the sellers, not the occasional drinkers or social smokers. It may well be that the vast majority of those that in some way use porn would not really ever pay anything substantial for it, but those few that would pay are willing to spend a lot of money for the productions that their favorite actresses or actors are cast-in, or for any ancillary products associated with those cast that are available for sale.
Either way, just because you or I find it strange that someone would pay for such content, doesn't mean that everyone else feels the same way. Clearly that the market exists indicates otherwise.
I wish that more employers whose workers didn't do shift-work or didn't have to work closely with other people were more flexible about downtime during the day. There have been days when a quick 30 minute nap would've really benefited me, but I've seen coworkers get in trouble when discovered asleep at their desks.
No, it isn't. We are still going to have legions of shitskins beating down the doors.
But I thought John Boehner had seen the light after his meeting with the Pope, which is why he left politics?
It might actually. Last time I looked at Apple's website it wasn't exactly clear what models were new-generation and what were old-generation, and since at times Apple has offered both I would hate to spend that kind of money without getting some of the advanced features.
In a commercial or industrial setting I would not use a consumer-grade device. I'd buy the tablet-equivalent of a Panasonic Toughbook.
I said, "Pro Machine," not, "Tool."