The US government is retarded. They are investing money in exactly the wrong way. By funding Tesla, we have government boobs deciding on a winner with little or nothing to show they can deliver. So the tax payer foots the bill and may or may bot get a return.
The ideal and proper method for government grants, funding, etc. should never be paid out for those promising a return, but instead to those who deliver an actually return. Think of the X prize or the Android Developer Challenges where money is paid upon completion of successful projects/objectives.
The reasons are clear:
It prevents political payoffs or those who are connected (thought they could rig challenge it is harder and more transparent)
Tax payers are never put on the hook in the hope of repayment, rather they only pay for successes
It changes the money structure, instead of universities, non-profits or businesses being built around a model where they get the most money by extending government funding periods, deals, or contracts, they get only money by solving problems.
It gives everyone a chance. From a company with a cool name like Tesla (an insult to a great American) to Joe Slashdot and his two friends who are working out of their parents garage.
Nearly universally, everyone who I know in their mid 20s - early 30s don't have a landline
The same used be be true for me, but now my parents, aunts and uncles, former teachers, etc. have all switched. I would say that nearly every person I know 15-62 have switched solely to cell phones in place of home phones. The two people I know with a home phone, my grandfather (85) and grandmother (82) switched to Vonage over two years ago to the complete surprise of the entire family. Reason they gave "It's a fixed monthly cost that works for what they need."
I really think the traditional home phone line could be dead in a decade or so.
I lock my car doors and have had my car broken into once. All of my other friends (except one) lock their cars and two of them have been broken into as well.
Sighting that fact, would it be reasonable for me to claim that unlocked cars are more secure and safe then locked cars?
No. Same goes for Apple.
First, viruses aren't the sole threat out there. It is not that Apples are more secure. It is mainly they have benefited from security through obscurity in the past and more recently security on the back of BSD
Finally, might I slap you around a bit and point out the Apple iPhone has been hacked in a variety of ways. Your ignorance doesn't negate that key fact.
I so hope somebody on/. writes an Apple worm, basically all it has to do is infect your systems and display a simple message "The Apple Reality Distortion Field has failed.". We could call it the "Apple Worm" or perhaps "Core", but my favorite name would be "BigCaseOf_STFU".
Don't get me wrong, I loved my Apple II and IIGS, Woz is the man, but the Apple of today isn't the Apple of the late seventies and early eighties.
As a Mac owner I am glad, for whatever reason, viruses are of no concern to me.
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But at home I get to relax, and ignore the issue completely.
Until the day you can't. I am sorry, but you make me want to troll the net for the next security issue that is resolved in Linux and/or Windows, but Apple drags their feet on (again). Then I can use it to F with people like you. Your confidence comes from your ignorance.
Here is the sad truth, Both the Linux/BSD communities and Microsoft take security more seriously than Apple.
Apply repeatedly leaves a lot of holes open longer then they should be. I am thinking iTunes may present a nice target vector, but there have been so many in the past and I am sure there will be more in the future.
I can see the HP/MS commercial now during the Superbowl next year:
PC - "Hi, I'm a PC"
MAC - "and I'm.... full of crap."
PC - "Oh, MAC. While your designers were working to change your outsides from white to aluminum they didn't have time to patch the latest security threats to your OS."
MAC - "All my music, all my pictures and all my home movies, gone, the worm even reformated my Time Machine drive and replaced restore points with pointers to an image of a piece of shit and a burning NEXT cube."
PC - "Well, MAC, you like to talk a big game, but you are not good at playing the big game. So let everyone go back to those who can; first with the guys in Superbowl 44 and then with Windows 7 on their next laptop."
I just don't think many government officials get it. Windows has tons of programs that I do not think need to be in an OS, things like MS Paint and Windows Media Player. But if you ask me one application that should be integrated with the OS, it is the browser. If Windows 95 didn't have that POS IE browser, then I am unsure how I could have downloaded Netscape back in the day. If the argument is people are to stupid to know they have options, what benefit does the government think those people will gain get by getting a PC with IE removed? And if you are a hardware vendor, why would you sell your product with LESS options? They are fixing a non-issue, because Firefox and Chrome and Opera developers already solved it for us.
If you want a stable distro, use RHEL or CentOS, which have a life cycle of 3 years. If you want bleeding edge, and a 6 month update cycle, use Fedora. If you like the color of brown and want to think you are cooler then you are, ubuntu is probably right for you. If you like to waste money, buy a Mac.
Oh and if you make your home partition separate and script settings you prefer, then you can update the distribution and not have to reconfigure everything by hand.
But Fedora is not exactly a cutting edge distro either.
I have to ask, are you retarded? The best thing about Fedora is that it is bleeding edge, course the worst thing about Fedora is that it is bleeding edge.
It's kernel updates are like a week behind kernel.org, Linus himself suggests the best way to test kernel releases and provide feedback is to use Fedora.
Red Hat and Fedora are providing the most updates to Linux, ubuntu's only contribution is naked pictures of boobies and a large collection of brown backgrounds that either say "ubuntu" or have a recycling rip off graphic.
If you want to push the limits of what OSS has to offer or you want to support a distribution that gives the most back to the OSS community; use Fedora on your home laptop or in a VM. If you want to run a supported Linux server, use RHEL/CentOS. If you are wet walking vagina, then ubuntu is for you.
"While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes... $140 million for something called "volcano monitoring." Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C."
Seems he was right, both you and I are more likely to have our lives negatively impacted by wasteful government spending, then we are to have it negatively impacted by a volcano.
I am posting this message from a fully patched Fedora 10 system on my home laptop, because I want to be on the bleeding edge. I have a CentOS system that I use when I need a stable Linux system.
I think IBM got it's ass handed to them in Texas already.
While upgrading an LPAR? (I am not MF guy), they overwrote state attorney generals information, "Opps".
Worse the backups they had were no good, double "Opps", with a side of "Oh Shiznizel". They were asked to confirm and did confirm a good backup was made pre-upgrade, so many dirty words I cannot post them here with a double dog "Opps" to boot.
So Governor stopped all outsourcing to IBM until the situation is reviewed.
Better still TX agencies cannot buy any more IBM MFs (thank goodness), they have to work on migrating to other platforms, could be LAMP servers or Windows/IIS/SQL server, but Texas Legislature says IBM is to expensive to justify going forward.
We're pointing out that he is an idiot just like Bush. I guess all recent presidents appear to be equally retarded. I mean the mistatements by Obama that get passed over by media are comparable to ones Dubya made. I wish you could recoginize we traded the one village idiot for a town fool. My favorite Obama statement has to be "I have been to 57 states so far." Awesome.
Socialism and Communism retard natural selection and thus slow, stop or reverse evolution gains. For example if you tax smart hard working people because they are succussful and make more money, then you hinder their ability to educate their children. While at the same time you subsidize food and medical care for lazy drug users you fund education for their children at the expense of more fit children (or average, there are a few exceptions). Evolution is imcompatible with collectivist religions. If you think they can work together at best you fail to understand one and likely don't understand either. Evolution dispoves Marx and ever other Communist claim Evolution supporters would be required/compelled to resist schemes that ensure survival of the weaker elements that cannot live without community support.
I have yet to see proof that Evolution explains how life began. Sure, it explains how life can change/advance, but not how it started. I think it is disingenuous to suggest people are closed minded for pointing out this fundamental limitation of the theory.
If you want to see really ignorant closed minded people, look at socialist or communist ideologues, their ideology has been repeatedly and convincingly disproven with facts and yet they still cling to it.
So why did Linus have to copyright the word "Linux"? Exactly the same reason, to protect us from BS lawsuits, by owning patents they can offer protection against lawsuits. You're naive and don't understand the real worl. RH is a good guy.
You are aware they aren't patenting things to prevent others from using those concepts or to change a fee to use the process. Instead they are doing it as a defensive measure against the likes of SCOs, M$ and greedy lawyers. They aren't patent trolls, they are protecting themselves and the Linux.
I am not saying we shouldn't fix this problem, but what about a far greater problems that revolve around the fact that non-citizens are voting in US elections and union workers are voting twice in places like PA? Why don't we address bigger proven problems if we are to fix "potential problems" like this.
The truth is that Red Hat more then any other company makes Linux awesome. Novell, IBM and Intel all do a great deal as well, but Red Hat gives more and deserves some respect for their efforts. My biggest problem with ubuntu is that the distro leeches off SuSE and Red Hat contributes giving nothing in return. If ubuntu were to die, Red Hat and SuSE would survive, but the reverse may not be true. I think people should use either Fedora, RHEL, openSuSE or Ent SuSE if they want to support those companies supporting Linux kernel development. Anyway back to the claim that IBM contributes more then Red Hat or Novell, that is simply untrue.
13.9% - None, meaning they claim to work for no company
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The ideal and proper method for government grants, funding, etc. should never be paid out for those promising a return, but instead to those who deliver an actually return. Think of the X prize or the Android Developer Challenges where money is paid upon completion of successful projects/objectives.
The reasons are clear:
Nearly universally, everyone who I know in their mid 20s - early 30s don't have a landline
The same used be be true for me, but now my parents, aunts and uncles, former teachers, etc. have all switched. I would say that nearly every person I know 15-62 have switched solely to cell phones in place of home phones. The two people I know with a home phone, my grandfather (85) and grandmother (82) switched to Vonage over two years ago to the complete surprise of the entire family. Reason they gave "It's a fixed monthly cost that works for what they need."
I really think the traditional home phone line could be dead in a decade or so.
I lock my car doors and have had my car broken into once. All of my other friends (except one) lock their cars and two of them have been broken into as well.
/. writes an Apple worm, basically all it has to do is infect your systems and display a simple message "The Apple Reality Distortion Field has failed.". We could call it the "Apple Worm" or perhaps "Core", but my favorite name would be "BigCaseOf_STFU".
Sighting that fact, would it be reasonable for me to claim that unlocked cars are more secure and safe then locked cars?
No. Same goes for Apple.
First, viruses aren't the sole threat out there. It is not that Apples are more secure. It is mainly they have benefited from security through obscurity in the past and more recently security on the back of BSD
Finally, might I slap you around a bit and point out the Apple iPhone has been hacked in a variety of ways. Your ignorance doesn't negate that key fact.
I so hope somebody on
Don't get me wrong, I loved my Apple II and IIGS, Woz is the man, but the Apple of today isn't the Apple of the late seventies and early eighties.
As a Mac owner I am glad, for whatever reason, viruses are of no concern to me.
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But at home I get to relax, and ignore the issue completely.
Until the day you can't. I am sorry, but you make me want to troll the net for the next security issue that is resolved in Linux and/or Windows, but Apple drags their feet on (again). Then I can use it to F with people like you. Your confidence comes from your ignorance.
.... full of crap."
Here is the sad truth, Both the Linux/BSD communities and Microsoft take security more seriously than Apple.
Apply repeatedly leaves a lot of holes open longer then they should be. I am thinking iTunes may present a nice target vector, but there have been so many in the past and I am sure there will be more in the future.
I can see the HP/MS commercial now during the Superbowl next year:
PC - "Hi, I'm a PC"
MAC - "and I'm
PC - "Oh, MAC. While your designers were working to change your outsides from white to aluminum they didn't have time to patch the latest security threats to your OS."
MAC - "All my music, all my pictures and all my home movies, gone, the worm even reformated my Time Machine drive and replaced restore points with pointers to an image of a piece of shit and a burning NEXT cube."
PC - "Well, MAC, you like to talk a big game, but you are not good at playing the big game. So let everyone go back to those who can; first with the guys in Superbowl 44 and then with Windows 7 on their next laptop."
I just don't think many government officials get it. Windows has tons of programs that I do not think need to be in an OS, things like MS Paint and Windows Media Player. But if you ask me one application that should be integrated with the OS, it is the browser. If Windows 95 didn't have that POS IE browser, then I am unsure how I could have downloaded Netscape back in the day. If the argument is people are to stupid to know they have options, what benefit does the government think those people will gain get by getting a PC with IE removed? And if you are a hardware vendor, why would you sell your product with LESS options? They are fixing a non-issue, because Firefox and Chrome and Opera developers already solved it for us.
If you want a stable distro, use RHEL or CentOS, which have a life cycle of 3 years. If you want bleeding edge, and a 6 month update cycle, use Fedora. If you like the color of brown and want to think you are cooler then you are, ubuntu is probably right for you. If you like to waste money, buy a Mac.
Oh and if you make your home partition separate and script settings you prefer, then you can update the distribution and not have to reconfigure everything by hand.
But Fedora is not exactly a cutting edge distro either.
I have to ask, are you retarded? The best thing about Fedora is that it is bleeding edge, course the worst thing about Fedora is that it is bleeding edge.
It's kernel updates are like a week behind kernel.org, Linus himself suggests the best way to test kernel releases and provide feedback is to use Fedora.
Red Hat and Fedora are providing the most updates to Linux, ubuntu's only contribution is naked pictures of boobies and a large collection of brown backgrounds that either say "ubuntu" or have a recycling rip off graphic.
If you want to push the limits of what OSS has to offer or you want to support a distribution that gives the most back to the OSS community; use Fedora on your home laptop or in a VM. If you want to run a supported Linux server, use RHEL/CentOS. If you are wet walking vagina, then ubuntu is for you.
I heard this is the latest addition to the product like and will be called the Watt.
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I can see it now in NYC 2013, this two wheeled death trap passes you on the corner and you call out
Watt the hell is that?
I heard part of the government agreement requires GM to build smaller cars that nobody wants.
"While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes ... $140 million for something called "volcano monitoring." Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C."
Seems he was right, both you and I are more likely to have our lives negatively impacted by wasteful government spending, then we are to have it negatively impacted by a volcano.
I am posting this message from a fully patched Fedora 10 system on my home laptop, because I want to be on the bleeding edge. I have a CentOS system that I use when I need a stable Linux system.
I think IBM got it's ass handed to them in Texas already.
While upgrading an LPAR? (I am not MF guy), they overwrote state attorney generals information, "Opps".
Worse the backups they had were no good, double "Opps", with a side of "Oh Shiznizel". They were asked to confirm and did confirm a good backup was made pre-upgrade, so many dirty words I cannot post them here with a double dog "Opps" to boot.
So Governor stopped all outsourcing to IBM until the situation is reviewed.
Better still TX agencies cannot buy any more IBM MFs (thank goodness), they have to work on migrating to other platforms, could be LAMP servers or Windows/IIS/SQL server, but Texas Legislature says IBM is to expensive to justify going forward.
I can see it now, they pass a law requiring 70% to be present for a vote.
Then there is a bill the minority opposes, the minority happen to be 31%, so they never show up for the vote.
Effectively the same move in reverse.
The change in law did not remove a problem it just twisted it.
You cannot legislate morality.
... one has to wonder about the future of traditional Unix
Not really, it has been and will continue to be replaced by open Linux solutions (and is some cases BSD).
We're pointing out that he is an idiot just like Bush. I guess all recent presidents appear to be equally retarded. I mean the mistatements by Obama that get passed over by media are comparable to ones Dubya made. I wish you could recoginize we traded the one village idiot for a town fool. My favorite Obama statement has to be "I have been to 57 states so far." Awesome.
I think it is very closed minded to dismiss scientist of others who suggest and attempt to explain how Global Warming isn't real.
The thing I look for is work experience, my suggestion get a job an learn while you get paid, rather then paying to learn.
Socialism and Communism retard natural selection and thus slow, stop or reverse evolution gains. For example if you tax smart hard working people because they are succussful and make more money, then you hinder their ability to educate their children. While at the same time you subsidize food and medical care for lazy drug users you fund education for their children at the expense of more fit children (or average, there are a few exceptions). Evolution is imcompatible with collectivist religions. If you think they can work together at best you fail to understand one and likely don't understand either. Evolution dispoves Marx and ever other Communist claim Evolution supporters would be required/compelled to resist schemes that ensure survival of the weaker elements that cannot live without community support.
I have yet to see proof that Evolution explains how life began. Sure, it explains how life can change/advance, but not how it started. I think it is disingenuous to suggest people are closed minded for pointing out this fundamental limitation of the theory.
If you want to see really ignorant closed minded people, look at socialist or communist ideologues, their ideology has been repeatedly and convincingly disproven with facts and yet they still cling to it.
So why did Linus have to copyright the word "Linux"? Exactly the same reason, to protect us from BS lawsuits, by owning patents they can offer protection against lawsuits. You're naive and don't understand the real worl. RH is a good guy.
You are aware they aren't patenting things to prevent others from using those concepts or to change a fee to use the process. Instead they are doing it as a defensive measure against the likes of SCOs, M$ and greedy lawyers. They aren't patent trolls, they are protecting themselves and the Linux.
I am not saying we shouldn't fix this problem, but what about a far greater problems that revolve around the fact that non-citizens are voting in US elections and union workers are voting twice in places like PA? Why don't we address bigger proven problems if we are to fix "potential problems" like this.
I got this information from the Linux Foundation at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linuxkerneldevelopment.php/