You're proud that you suck at your job, thats just awesome right there, a tribute to the leadership within your organization.
Perhaps you should wipe the smug off your face and listen instead of putting your head up your ass and acting like you're the most amazing thing to exist.
Who the fuck has a website of this size offline for multiple days and can't even bother to post an update to the font page with an explanation while its happening.
I get it, slashdot is nothing more than a place for you to post ads, but for fucks sake, stop pretending its anything more. Just don't post. Go crawl back in your basement and say nothing, it'd be about 100x better than this bullshit you posted here.
Remember, 99% of the people who read slashdot before you took over were WAY smarter than you, and the other 1% is still learning to read. You're bullshit will be called.
No, they'll offer just another laptop running Windows.
The reason people buy Macbooks is the whole package, the big difference being the OS. You guys really just don't get it. Its not just that its good hardware, you aren't going to 'clone' the entire experience that Apple provides by commodity device maker. You can't just throw a bunch of shit in a box and pretend its a Mac. You can build the exact same hardware, but without the rest of the ecosystem, software, services, ects... ITS NOT GOING TO BE ANYTHING MORE THAN A PC RUNNING WINDOWS.
While we may wish for determinism, it has been shown long before that it does not exist.
Wrong. Close your eyes. Did the cosmos cease to exist while your eyes were closed because you were unable to observe it?
Please stop reading half a philosophy text book thats 20 years above your education level and pretending you suddenly understand physics of the cosmos.
Philosophy != Physics I don't care what your self absorbed Philosophy prof told you.
Being unable to predict the future does not make it indeterminate, it just means you don't have a complete state for the system or enough processing power to process that state faster than happens naturally. In order to truely use determinism to predict the future, we'd have to be outside observers, have full knowledge of the state of the universe at a point in time AND most importantly, some way to simulate the properties of the universe faster than real time (which actually could be done given enough 'stuff' to be the processor, unfortunately using any known method that would require a few orders of magnitude MORE stuff than exists in the cosmos presently.
That means we're not likely to be predicting the future, but it doesn't mean its not predictable on a cosmic scale or that you couldn't 'calculate the universe' given enough time. Both of those things would just be utterly silly for us humans to try based on our current understanding of the cosmos.
"Our venture and startup ecosystem is fairly left-leaning."
So you openly acknowledge that your judgement is biased by your political idealism rather than unbiased objectivism towards the best solution for the problem at hand?
Well then fuck your selfish, short sighted 'ecosystem'. You're proud to be a prejudice person against another group of people that you disagree with... I'm not sure how you could by much more of a hypocrite to call yourself left-leaning while at the same time being a prejudice asshole.
prejudice prejds/Submit noun 1. preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. "English prejudice against foreigners" synonyms: preconceived idea, preconception, prejudgment "male prejudices about women"
You actually need to prove that statement. I'm not saying its wrong, I actually think its probably correct, however its not science until its tested and validated a couple times.
The problem is, its not science thats being reported as science. It cant be replicated because its not true. Its a bunch of inferences made by someone who wants to see a particular outcome and putting together something they pretend to consider a 'study' and shouting at the top of their lungs when they make the data fit their predetermined outcome.
Its not 'grappling with a crisis', this is nothing new, and exists everywhere, the only difference now is that shitty 'journalism' publishes stories and 'papers' without actually doing the basic checks to see if they're posting stories written by some crackpots or not. This exact problem happens in all walks of life and has for hundreds of thousands of years.
Every 'journalist'... i.e. blog author or twitter user, rushes to publish any bit of bullshit they can find so they get to say they were up to the minute, breaking news, blah blah blah. When in reality, the reason we bother with replication is to weed this sort of shit out before we get ourselves all excited about someones scam.
The real problem is you have a bunch of humans who care more about getting attention than learning something about the cosmos. It makes me very sad for our species
Yes, extremely simple, look at the BitcointTalk thread at the chain they are tracking.
The source of that chain is the people who were stupid enough to 'invest' in an 'ico'.
Every single 'accepted' BitCoin transaction ever is trackable from start to finish, thats what the block chain is, thats how it works.
It is the opposite of anonymous, yet people still keep using it as if it has no traceability. If you want to be as close to untraceable as possible, cash is as close as it gets. Otherwise you need someone willing to launder your money and take the heat when they inevitably get caught since... you know, bitcoin tells them exactly where the money came from and where it went. You can't launder it through an exchange unless you find an exchange that doesn't record transactions... in which case from a legal perspective, the cops just go after the exchange as they are the 'source' or 'destination', at which point the exchange rapidly tells them exactly who made the transfer.
Allowing username reuse completely breaks any trust that what I pull is what it claims to be. What if this user had been malicious? It may have taken a while before someone actually noticed this wasn't the original user and the code was doing something more than it claimed to.
Why are you trusting a random strangers GitHub git repo, one that can be updated at any time for any reason, including changing existing versions to be something other than they were before? And the USERNAME is the part that you're worried about? You use NPM too don't you?
If you're going to pull random libraries from random GitHub users, fork them into your own repo so they can't be modified in any way by any random person without your knowledge. If you want to have reliable builds, you should be pulling your dependencies from a local cache with static versions. By pulling your libraries directly from the source at build time, you may get the 'advantage' of always having the 'latest' version . . . but that advantage sucks when the latest version happens to be from some hack that owns your account during the build process.
Thats okay though right, because your builds are only run by a user which has nothing more than read only access to your repos anyway . . . right? So the fact that 'they' now have all your build configuration information can't be used to login to your GitHub account and hax0r your repo... RIGHT?
The problem here is that its stupid to link directly to third party libraries. Download a copy that doesn't change until you tell it to change. Fork the repo, whatever. Put it somewhere that your build can access rather than downloading from source every time.
USE A THIRD PARTY REPOSITORY FOR YOUR LIBRARIES. Seriously. Decentralized is NOT ALWAYS THE BEST WAY TO DO THINGS, a central repo like yum, maven, apt-get and all the other real package managers use and you get at least a few people with eyes on whats happening to ensure its probably safe, and all the other end users who may find errors without you looking. When you pull from some random GitHub repo though... thats just begging for trouble.
I don't care if Go makes its super easy to pull libraries from GitHub, is super stupid to pull in third party repos this way and you pretty much deserve what you get for doing so.
Sarbanes-Oxley is estimated to cost more than $500K/year.
Cost who 500k? My small public company essentially pass 0 in cost towards SOX, its not 0 but pretty F'n close. If it cost me 500k that would be the end of me.
Cost Walmart 500k? People there pause in the middle of a sentence at meetings and waste more than $500k, so $500k/year isn't shit.
You're throwing out numbers like they are hard rules when ALL of it is relative. You have no idea what actually matters and what doesn't, you're simply repeating some bullshit you read somewhere on some investing site and you don't understand what you're talking about.
Hey, this guy has been in charge of an effective monopoly for decades. That monopoly is being torn apart by people who are *GASP* giving it away.
Thats his bitch here. A) No more all powerful patent troll for him B) No more massive influx of money for doing nothing other than having the standard.
I.E. THIS IS EXACTLY HOW THIS DOUCHEBAG IS SUPPOSED TO FEEL. It just should have happened 20 years ago.
Sounds like you just invented meltdown/spectre for browsing the internet.
I as an advertiser would ABSOLUTELY LOVE for you to give me unfettered access to your browse history because you walked by my kiosk designed to brute force your device with cache requests to determine what sites youve already visited, or all the other neat thi gs i can do now that youve made your browser cache a public resource.
Show me an OS that doesnt apply microcode fixes to the CPU at boot time.
Then go read the processor errata documents, which document the many many known bugs in the CPU.
You dont think about it because you arent aware its happening, but ut happens everytime you start. Windows, Linux, OSX, the BSDs... they all do it on every single boot
I want to know how this ask slashdot story got posted to the front page the day after it was already on the front page.
The comment I'm replying to was made on Dec 21st at 4:26PM, but the page was posted on Dec 22@8:35am
Seriously msmash, you suck at your job.
I'm not even sure that the 'editors' are just a bunch of shitty bots or cron jobs based on the fact that you used to see regular postings to the front page done EXACTLY on the hour
The only way you can put less effort into something is if you don't do anything at all.
'Protesting online' really just shows that you aren't really concerned with the issue and that politicians can safely ignore you cause you're not going to do anything that requires real effort or actually makes your life even a little uncomfortable.
But thats not whats happening here, shitty headline. This is about online organizations advertising about net neutrality on their front door and in peoples faces.
Google and Facebook aren't in it anymore because they can now use it to their advantage. Much like Amazon didn't want to pay taxes in various states until it could use that to block out competition then all of the sudden taxes good. These companies are now big enough that they can throw their weight around so they no longer want any new things to get in the way of throwing said weight around.
The companies you see advertising about the net neutrality now are the ones that still need protection and can't use this to their advantage.
Also note: gmail immediately downloads these images to one of ITS servers without any other information about your client when it gets the email, once and only once, where possible only once across multiple users, to obscure the usefulness of this process.
For web bugs like this, they are ignored completely and never grabbed, for other images a single instance is used and that instance is loaded from gmail servers rather than directly back to the source.
I.E. just by using Google Mail, you have severely limited the usefulness of this technique by hiding inside Googles massive numbers.
So even when you do load remote content, is STILL doesn't come from the source in the email.
All the vendor knows is that the email reached Googles servers and Google scanned the links, since it happens regardless of the validity of the email address, they don't even really know if the email was actually sent to an inbox or/dev/null
If you think thats Linus saying he doesn't really care, you're an idiot.
are much too cavalier about bugs and compatibility
I think some of the design details are insane
You think being relatively new gives you the advantage of being willing to change. In reality, its just your ignorance prevents you from understanding why the change is bad. Your arrogance prevents you from listening to the ones with the experience to know its a pile of shit when they see it.
I use systemd in a production environment for my job function, I prefer FreeBSD for servers and run OS X as a desktop. Been doing unix admin for 30 years now, I have no problem with my machines running systemd. It does what I need it to do without fail.
Its still a stupid fucking way to do things written by an arrogant prick who knows about 10% as much as he thinks he does and is too stupid to bother understanding the history. He's reinventing the wheel poorly and it just hasn't blown up in his face yet.
Just because it hasn't fucked me over yet, doesn't mean I can't see EXACTLY why it is a bad design with some seriously dangerous 'features'
You dont need to make one up, you just have to bother to do a basic google search before you make ignorant assumptions for your organization.
Of course the larger you get with something like this before someone in your stupid ass company points out that your doing it wrong by not using.local really is more of an indication that your tech staff is completely inept.
If you dont already use.local your an idiot, the rest of thisis just a question of what level of ID10T you are
Slashdot Mirror
So what, you guys can't make a static index.html in 20 minutes? Seriously?
You're proud that you suck at your job, thats just awesome right there, a tribute to the leadership within your organization.
Perhaps you should wipe the smug off your face and listen instead of putting your head up your ass and acting like you're the most amazing thing to exist.
Who the fuck has a website of this size offline for multiple days and can't even bother to post an update to the font page with an explanation while its happening.
I get it, slashdot is nothing more than a place for you to post ads, but for fucks sake, stop pretending its anything more. Just don't post. Go crawl back in your basement and say nothing, it'd be about 100x better than this bullshit you posted here.
Remember, 99% of the people who read slashdot before you took over were WAY smarter than you, and the other 1% is still learning to read. You're bullshit will be called.
Huawei will soon offer a MacBook Pro clone
No, they'll offer just another laptop running Windows.
The reason people buy Macbooks is the whole package, the big difference being the OS. You guys really just don't get it. Its not just that its good hardware, you aren't going to 'clone' the entire experience that Apple provides by commodity device maker. You can't just throw a bunch of shit in a box and pretend its a Mac. You can build the exact same hardware, but without the rest of the ecosystem, software, services, ects ... ITS NOT GOING TO BE ANYTHING MORE THAN A PC RUNNING WINDOWS.
While we may wish for determinism, it has been shown long before that it does not exist.
Wrong. Close your eyes. Did the cosmos cease to exist while your eyes were closed because you were unable to observe it?
Please stop reading half a philosophy text book thats 20 years above your education level and pretending you suddenly understand physics of the cosmos.
Philosophy != Physics I don't care what your self absorbed Philosophy prof told you.
Being unable to predict the future does not make it indeterminate, it just means you don't have a complete state for the system or enough processing power to process that state faster than happens naturally. In order to truely use determinism to predict the future, we'd have to be outside observers, have full knowledge of the state of the universe at a point in time AND most importantly, some way to simulate the properties of the universe faster than real time (which actually could be done given enough 'stuff' to be the processor, unfortunately using any known method that would require a few orders of magnitude MORE stuff than exists in the cosmos presently.
That means we're not likely to be predicting the future, but it doesn't mean its not predictable on a cosmic scale or that you couldn't 'calculate the universe' given enough time. Both of those things would just be utterly silly for us humans to try based on our current understanding of the cosmos.
"Our venture and startup ecosystem is fairly left-leaning."
So you openly acknowledge that your judgement is biased by your political idealism rather than unbiased objectivism towards the best solution for the problem at hand?
Well then fuck your selfish, short sighted 'ecosystem'. You're proud to be a prejudice person against another group of people that you disagree with ... I'm not sure how you could by much more of a hypocrite to call yourself left-leaning while at the same time being a prejudice asshole.
prejudice
prejds/Submit
noun
1.
preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
"English prejudice against foreigners"
synonyms: preconceived idea, preconception, prejudgment
"male prejudices about women"
Does it?
You actually need to prove that statement. I'm not saying its wrong, I actually think its probably correct, however its not science until its tested and validated a couple times.
"Shut up and put up, plebs."
I'm really not trying to be a dick here, but what if the social justice warrior tribe makes the workplace feel hostile to ME?
A hostile work place is pretty much exactly what the memo was about.
hahaha, how pathetic are you?
The problem is, its not science thats being reported as science. It cant be replicated because its not true. Its a bunch of inferences made by someone who wants to see a particular outcome and putting together something they pretend to consider a 'study' and shouting at the top of their lungs when they make the data fit their predetermined outcome.
Its not 'grappling with a crisis', this is nothing new, and exists everywhere, the only difference now is that shitty 'journalism' publishes stories and 'papers' without actually doing the basic checks to see if they're posting stories written by some crackpots or not. This exact problem happens in all walks of life and has for hundreds of thousands of years.
Every 'journalist' ... i.e. blog author or twitter user, rushes to publish any bit of bullshit they can find so they get to say they were up to the minute, breaking news, blah blah blah. When in reality, the reason we bother with replication is to weed this sort of shit out before we get ourselves all excited about someones scam.
The real problem is you have a bunch of humans who care more about getting attention than learning something about the cosmos. It makes me very sad for our species
Yes, extremely simple, look at the BitcointTalk thread at the chain they are tracking.
The source of that chain is the people who were stupid enough to 'invest' in an 'ico'.
Every single 'accepted' BitCoin transaction ever is trackable from start to finish, thats what the block chain is, thats how it works.
It is the opposite of anonymous, yet people still keep using it as if it has no traceability. If you want to be as close to untraceable as possible, cash is as close as it gets. Otherwise you need someone willing to launder your money and take the heat when they inevitably get caught since ... you know, bitcoin tells them exactly where the money came from and where it went. You can't launder it through an exchange unless you find an exchange that doesn't record transactions ... in which case from a legal perspective, the cops just go after the exchange as they are the 'source' or 'destination', at which point the exchange rapidly tells them exactly who made the transfer.
In the northern hemisphere, in the fall, the clock moves back one hour.
That means you leave work an hour later, when its dark.
In the fall at the DST change, i go from about an hour of usable daylight when i walk out of work to not seeing the sun on weekdays until March.
So i go to work in the dark and come home in the dark, just because of DST
Allowing username reuse completely breaks any trust that what I pull is what it claims to be. What if this user had been malicious? It may have taken a while before someone actually noticed this wasn't the original user and the code was doing something more than it claimed to.
Why are you trusting a random strangers GitHub git repo, one that can be updated at any time for any reason, including changing existing versions to be something other than they were before? And the USERNAME is the part that you're worried about? You use NPM too don't you?
If you're going to pull random libraries from random GitHub users, fork them into your own repo so they can't be modified in any way by any random person without your knowledge. If you want to have reliable builds, you should be pulling your dependencies from a local cache with static versions. By pulling your libraries directly from the source at build time, you may get the 'advantage' of always having the 'latest' version . . . but that advantage sucks when the latest version happens to be from some hack that owns your account during the build process.
Thats okay though right, because your builds are only run by a user which has nothing more than read only access to your repos anyway . . . right? So the fact that 'they' now have all your build configuration information can't be used to login to your GitHub account and hax0r your repo ... RIGHT?
The problem here is that its stupid to link directly to third party libraries. Download a copy that doesn't change until you tell it to change. Fork the repo, whatever. Put it somewhere that your build can access rather than downloading from source every time.
USE A THIRD PARTY REPOSITORY FOR YOUR LIBRARIES. Seriously. Decentralized is NOT ALWAYS THE BEST WAY TO DO THINGS, a central repo like yum, maven, apt-get and all the other real package managers use and you get at least a few people with eyes on whats happening to ensure its probably safe, and all the other end users who may find errors without you looking. When you pull from some random GitHub repo though ... thats just begging for trouble.
I don't care if Go makes its super easy to pull libraries from GitHub, is super stupid to pull in third party repos this way and you pretty much deserve what you get for doing so.
Sarbanes-Oxley is estimated to cost more than $500K/year.
Cost who 500k? My small public company essentially pass 0 in cost towards SOX, its not 0 but pretty F'n close. If it cost me 500k that would be the end of me.
Cost Walmart 500k? People there pause in the middle of a sentence at meetings and waste more than $500k, so $500k/year isn't shit.
You're throwing out numbers like they are hard rules when ALL of it is relative. You have no idea what actually matters and what doesn't, you're simply repeating some bullshit you read somewhere on some investing site and you don't understand what you're talking about.
...let it die.
Hey, this guy has been in charge of an effective monopoly for decades. That monopoly is being torn apart by people who are *GASP* giving it away.
Thats his bitch here.
A) No more all powerful patent troll for him
B) No more massive influx of money for doing nothing other than having the standard.
I.E. THIS IS EXACTLY HOW THIS DOUCHEBAG IS SUPPOSED TO FEEL. It just should have happened 20 years ago.
But still, the notion of paying annually for something that's free rubbed me the wrong way.
Well, MsMash, as someone pretending to run a news site, first rule, keep your own personal opinions out of the stories.
We really don't give a fuck if you have to pay more FOR YOUR BMW IPHONE USAGE, you're just an asshole for using slashdot to whine about it.
If the phone fits, she's not a lady.
Sounds like you just invented meltdown/spectre for browsing the internet.
I as an advertiser would ABSOLUTELY LOVE for you to give me unfettered access to your browse history because you walked by my kiosk designed to brute force your device with cache requests to determine what sites youve already visited, or all the other neat thi gs i can do now that youve made your browser cache a public resource.
Ignorance abounds here.
Show me an OS that doesnt apply microcode fixes to the CPU at boot time.
Then go read the processor errata documents, which document the many many known bugs in the CPU.
You dont think about it because you arent aware its happening, but ut happens everytime you start. Windows, Linux, OSX, the BSDs ... they all do it on every single boot
I want to know how this ask slashdot story got posted to the front page the day after it was already on the front page.
The comment I'm replying to was made on Dec 21st at 4:26PM, but the page was posted on Dec 22@8:35am
Seriously msmash, you suck at your job.
I'm not even sure that the 'editors' are just a bunch of shitty bots or cron jobs based on the fact that you used to see regular postings to the front page done EXACTLY on the hour
'Where in the world' implies to any sane person that you're speaking of the world you're on. In which case, the answer is simple:
Mar's water, if any, is on Mars, not Earth, by definition.
The only way you can put less effort into something is if you don't do anything at all.
'Protesting online' really just shows that you aren't really concerned with the issue and that politicians can safely ignore you cause you're not going to do anything that requires real effort or actually makes your life even a little uncomfortable.
But thats not whats happening here, shitty headline. This is about online organizations advertising about net neutrality on their front door and in peoples faces.
Google and Facebook aren't in it anymore because they can now use it to their advantage. Much like Amazon didn't want to pay taxes in various states until it could use that to block out competition then all of the sudden taxes good. These companies are now big enough that they can throw their weight around so they no longer want any new things to get in the way of throwing said weight around.
The companies you see advertising about the net neutrality now are the ones that still need protection and can't use this to their advantage.
Also note: gmail immediately downloads these images to one of ITS servers without any other information about your client when it gets the email, once and only once, where possible only once across multiple users, to obscure the usefulness of this process.
For web bugs like this, they are ignored completely and never grabbed, for other images a single instance is used and that instance is loaded from gmail servers rather than directly back to the source.
I.E. just by using Google Mail, you have severely limited the usefulness of this technique by hiding inside Googles massive numbers.
So even when you do load remote content, is STILL doesn't come from the source in the email.
All the vendor knows is that the email reached Googles servers and Google scanned the links, since it happens regardless of the validity of the email address, they don't even really know if the email was actually sent to an inbox or /dev/null
If you think thats Linus saying he doesn't really care, you're an idiot.
are much too cavalier about bugs and compatibility
I think some of the design details are insane
You think being relatively new gives you the advantage of being willing to change. In reality, its just your ignorance prevents you from understanding why the change is bad. Your arrogance prevents you from listening to the ones with the experience to know its a pile of shit when they see it.
I use systemd in a production environment for my job function, I prefer FreeBSD for servers and run OS X as a desktop. Been doing unix admin for 30 years now, I have no problem with my machines running systemd. It does what I need it to do without fail.
Its still a stupid fucking way to do things written by an arrogant prick who knows about 10% as much as he thinks he does and is too stupid to bother understanding the history. He's reinventing the wheel poorly and it just hasn't blown up in his face yet.
Just because it hasn't fucked me over yet, doesn't mean I can't see EXACTLY why it is a bad design with some seriously dangerous 'features'
The old SCO lawyers must be low on funds, they found a couple more dying horses to beat and wring the last dime out of in legal fees.
No, thats the entire point of .local tld
You dont need to make one up, you just have to bother to do a basic google search before you make ignorant assumptions for your organization.
Of course the larger you get with something like this before someone in your stupid ass company points out that your doing it wrong by not using .local really is more of an indication that your tech staff is completely inept.
If you dont already use .local your an idiot, the rest of thisis just a question of what level of ID10T you are