>> and a couple wishes to start a family, then the woman taking time off is the only option.
Having kids is a life choice, not something that other people should have to enable or even pay for you doing.
Just like every other choice in life, the decision th have kids negative and positive aspects. If you want kids then you need to accept the fact that it will also impact your career/earning potential. People need to get over it.
I am aparently one of the increasingly few Software Engineers that does acutally believe in the overall business benefits of only releasing well-engineered software and not treating your customers like Alpha testers,
As such I am becoming more and more disillusioned about my chances of ever working for a company where all the managers are not just always looking for (and rewarding) ways to push some barely functional piece of badly engineered shit out the door as soon as possible, and only investing effort in coming up with new excuses to ignore customer complaints.
>> Being able to reliably make changes to the source code is almost the entire cost of software development.
It sounds like you're suggesting that making the $ cost of doing something not commecially profitable is alone sufficient to be a good security mechansim.
I'm amazed that someone who supposedly knows what they are doing would even suggest this. Program obfuscation is completely the wrong approach. It is just another mechanism that relies on security through obscurity, which has been proven time and again to be a short-term solution at best. When something is actually secure, it's readability should be irrelevant.
Just another fine example of how Feminists dont want actual gender equality, and how a lot of men have been successfully brainwashed by them and the media to support it anyway.
Thanks for this useful info. I wasn't actually aware that it was a common enough problem that they needed to make a section for it in the release notes, however that just underlines my comments and that it is a singularly inapproriate choice to use nouveau rather than the nVidia blob as the default in a mainstream environment. I'm sure that most normal people would easily prioritise robustness, performance and functionality over some purist's anal sense of political correctness.
90 pounds is probably nothing when you consider the phone is being sold in the American market, where being sat on by an average member of the public should probably be measured in tons.
>> it's not on Nvidia to stop fake cards, its on law enforcement.
Its no surprise to me that nVidia feel the need to cover their own asses. Waiting for Law Enforcement to step up is a lame joke in most countries.
I am disappointed that nVidia (at least so far) apparently haven't given the nouveau project the ability to sign or at least proxy-load their own drivers, but on the other hand even after all this time nouveau is (still) a turd that sucks enough to not even just not crash on some nVidia hardware.
If this change means as a side-effect that Mint will finally go back to installing nvidia's binary rather than nouveau by default then I'm all for it, as the way it stands now I can't even install mint on my laptop since there is no way to manually override the automatic installation of nouveau, then novueau crashes and locks up the whole CPU before I can even get to a point where I can uninstall it.
>> Take a look at what those people who know their craft recommend - e.g., the Federal Aviation Association,
Lol. As someone who worked develping software for avionics for 8 years I can tell you that the FAA standards e.g. DO178B are bizarrely clueless, and most avionics companies have enough fingers in the pie to get any old piece of shit through FAA certification. Unfortuantely the FAA have decided to be completely reliant on the fox for advice on watching the hen house. I've seen some bad code in my 35 years as a developer, but truly all the worst sutff was for avionics supposedly written to FAA procedures/standards. Most of the US avionics industry is so stagnant and full of truly clueless managers and beancounters with wrongehaded priorities enforcing retarded metrics that I simply refuse to ever work in avionics again.
>> CEOs want employees with liberal arts degrees, because those graduates have critical thinking skills.
Liberal arts = critical thinking? lol thats funny....And people with CS, maths or hard science degrees are not naturally inclined to think as logically right?
What they ACTUALLY mean is they want more fuzzy-thinking compliant Yes-men, not engineers that actually know their shit and easily spot it when some middle-manager says something that makes no logical sense.
On that basis you could argue that a formula 1 racecar would be a good car to do the weekly shopping in, just because it has a steering wheel, an engine, and 4 wheels, just like every other car.
Of course I know what a macBook is. Thanks to it being waaay overpriced and having relatively dismal hardware specs, and also being locked into a proprietary Apple universe, I practically don't even consider it a laptop at all, let alone anything I would actually want to give money for.
I wonder how much money Microsoft will continue to throw at phones, and how many times they will keeping releasing new phones that don't sell before they finally accept that no-one actually likes Widows or trusts Microsoft any more, and that the only reason we use Windows at all is because you can't buy a laptop without it and most of us just have to put up with it at work.
what decision will the car make? will i be happy to allow it to make that decision? - will i still be happy for it to make that decision if my 2 kids are in the backseat?
All very good questions that no decision-makers are allowing themselves to be seen asking.
To the government none of this will matter, its already a done deal that In a few years this technology will become 24/7 mandatory. Google are already trying hard to get driving controls out of cars totally. http://www.kurzweilai.net/goog...
Regardless of the fact that nearly all of society does it every day, we will be told by the government that driving is an activity that humans are completely incapable of doing safely (somehow these human shortcomings won't be an issue if you work for the government or have a cop badge), and all the treehuggers will totally agree with all the brainwashing because think of the children.
It wont be long before anybody demonstrating independent thought by trying to take control of the vehicle in any way will be considered as unnecessarily endangering lives and therefore a criminal. Mark my words. The loss of your family due to a bad decision by the car in an accident will be considered as "just unlucky" by most people and you won't be able to do a damn thing about it. Welcome to the Google age.
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At least it has been completely proven to have absolutely no effect on human males. Oh wait...
Track down and punish all the retards that actually buy the stuff advertised by spam.
no but to pull it off you also need to wear a white labcoat, smoke a pipe and have a thing for tweed.
>> and a couple wishes to start a family, then the woman taking time off is the only option.
Having kids is a life choice, not something that other people should have to enable or even pay for you doing.
Just like every other choice in life, the decision th have kids negative and positive aspects. If you want kids then you need to accept the fact that it will also impact your career/earning potential. People need to get over it.
...and your belief that there is anything but mostly that in IT is at best very uniformed/naive, but more likely a direct feminazi troll
Welcome to the new world.
I am aparently one of the increasingly few Software Engineers that does acutally believe in the overall business benefits of only releasing well-engineered software and not treating your customers like Alpha testers,
As such I am becoming more and more disillusioned about my chances of ever working for a company where all the managers are not just always looking for (and rewarding) ways to push some barely functional piece of badly engineered shit out the door as soon as possible, and only investing effort in coming up with new excuses to ignore customer complaints.
by extension then, neither is it completely the right one.
>> Being able to reliably make changes to the source code is almost the entire cost of software development.
It sounds like you're suggesting that making the $ cost of doing something not commecially profitable is alone sufficient to be a good security mechansim.
wow I hadn't thought of that. If I had mod points you'd get them.
I'm amazed that someone who supposedly knows what they are doing would even suggest this.
Program obfuscation is completely the wrong approach. It is just another mechanism that relies on security through obscurity, which has been proven time and again to be a short-term solution at best.
When something is actually secure, it's readability should be irrelevant.
Just another fine example of how Feminists dont want actual gender equality, and how a lot of men have been successfully brainwashed by them and the media to support it anyway.
Just to run the OS requires 1GB of ram? ...and I'm meant to be impressed with how "small" this is?
They should have called it the Orwell system.
Thanks for this useful info. I wasn't actually aware that it was a common enough problem that they needed to make a section for it in the release notes, however that just underlines my comments and that it is a singularly inapproriate choice to use nouveau rather than the nVidia blob as the default in a mainstream environment.
I'm sure that most normal people would easily prioritise robustness, performance and functionality over some purist's anal sense of political correctness.
90 pounds is probably nothing when you consider the phone is being sold in the American market, where being sat on by an average member of the public should probably be measured in tons.
>> it's not on Nvidia to stop fake cards, its on law enforcement.
Its no surprise to me that nVidia feel the need to cover their own asses. Waiting for Law Enforcement to step up is a lame joke in most countries.
I am disappointed that nVidia (at least so far) apparently haven't given the nouveau project the ability to sign or at least proxy-load their own drivers, but on the other hand even after all this time nouveau is (still) a turd that sucks enough to not even just not crash on some nVidia hardware.
If this change means as a side-effect that Mint will finally go back to installing nvidia's binary rather than nouveau by default then I'm all for it, as the way it stands now I can't even install mint on my laptop since there is no way to manually override the automatic installation of nouveau, then novueau crashes and locks up the whole CPU before I can even get to a point where I can uninstall it.
...String theory is bogus?
>> Take a look at what those people who know their craft recommend - e.g., the Federal Aviation Association,
Lol. As someone who worked develping software for avionics for 8 years I can tell you that the FAA standards e.g. DO178B are bizarrely clueless, and most avionics companies have enough fingers in the pie to get any old piece of shit through FAA certification. Unfortuantely the FAA have decided to be completely reliant on the fox for advice on watching the hen house.
I've seen some bad code in my 35 years as a developer, but truly all the worst sutff was for avionics supposedly written to FAA procedures/standards.
Most of the US avionics industry is so stagnant and full of truly clueless managers and beancounters with wrongehaded priorities enforcing retarded metrics that I simply refuse to ever work in avionics again.
>> CEOs want employees with liberal arts degrees, because those graduates have critical thinking skills.
Liberal arts = critical thinking? lol thats funny....And people with CS, maths or hard science degrees are not naturally inclined to think as logically right?
What they ACTUALLY mean is they want more fuzzy-thinking compliant Yes-men, not engineers that actually know their shit and easily spot it when some middle-manager says something that makes no logical sense.
On that basis you could argue that a formula 1 racecar would be a good car to do the weekly shopping in, just because it has a steering wheel, an engine, and 4 wheels, just like every other car.
Of course I know what a macBook is. Thanks to it being waaay overpriced and having relatively dismal hardware specs, and also being locked into a proprietary Apple universe, I practically don't even consider it a laptop at all, let alone anything I would actually want to give money for.
"Early Adopter" is clearly the new name for "Sheep-like moron".
I wonder how much money Microsoft will continue to throw at phones, and how many times they will keeping releasing new phones that don't sell before they finally accept that no-one actually likes Widows or trusts Microsoft any more, and that the only reason we use Windows at all is because you can't buy a laptop without it and most of us just have to put up with it at work.
My website will be fine since it uses ROT-13.
what decision will the car make?
will i be happy to allow it to make that decision?
- will i still be happy for it to make that decision if my 2 kids are in the backseat?
All very good questions that no decision-makers are allowing themselves to be seen asking.
To the government none of this will matter, its already a done deal that In a few years this technology will become 24/7 mandatory. Google are already trying hard to get driving controls out of cars totally.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/goog...
Regardless of the fact that nearly all of society does it every day, we will be told by the government that driving is an activity that humans are completely incapable of doing safely (somehow these human shortcomings won't be an issue if you work for the government or have a cop badge), and all the treehuggers will totally agree with all the brainwashing because think of the children.
It wont be long before anybody demonstrating independent thought by trying to take control of the vehicle in any way will be considered as unnecessarily endangering lives and therefore a criminal. Mark my words. The loss of your family due to a bad decision by the car in an accident will be considered as "just unlucky" by most people and you won't be able to do a damn thing about it. Welcome to the Google age.