It's not hard for me to comprehend. But it doesn't make things more complex than necessary.
Also, the whole world uses the metric system. Only the US uses the brain-dead imperial system. So it looks like it's you that don't have what it takes to understand a new system.
It's not about the story behind the unit. If the definition is arbitrary or not doesn't matter at all. What does matter is the way it works. I can tell you exactly how many grams are in a kilogram, and how many grams in a Ton. And that makes perfect sense. It's 10-base. it's metric. It's logical.
Now, try that with the ridiculous conversion ratios between ounces, pounds, stones and all that crazy mumbo-jumbo that is the imperial system.
BTW, where is everyone? I was starting to wonder if the zombie apocalypse had started without me. Noone at/., and no new XKCD yet (It's already 00:08 EST).
Where they stand, and the power they have right now.
FTFA:
We are going to start to see a number of companies in the embedded space submitting 3D drivers for mobile devices to the kernel. I'd like to clarify my position once so they don't all come asking the same questions.
1st) It's too damn slow to run an operating system from it, so they force you to use it as a second disk, through a slow interface like USB, so you won't notice. 2nd) It doesn't work in 99% of all bioses, and it probably requires a special driver to work through USB (at least on winslow systems).
I do not have a side. Wars are stupid and unnecessary, specially in the 21th century.
I am usually except both sides of any war, except in this case we don't actually have a war, because we don't have more than one side.
Afghanistan had a Marxist regimen before the United States decided to fund a small resistance, so the Russians backed up the democratic and legitimate government, and we had a war. For 10 fucking years. After the Soviets were no more, the CIA continued to train and provide funding and armament to the resistance. In 2001, you got an excuse to go in there (Thanks to another CIA sock puppet), and you've been there ever since.
There are small groups of crazy bastards everywhere, and potential conflicts are all around, but those potential conflicts turn into wars when the CIA comes in and trains and finances those groups. Then the army has someone to fight against.
Her husbands murders kids overseas, then dies. That has NOTHING to do with the contract she signed./Yeah, I'm fucking happy every time a soldier dies. Specially when it's a marine.
The guy that posted this is a Ksplice developer. In case you didn't knew, KSplice allows you to patch your running kernel without rebooting. Nice.
Anyway, this guys sees a random memory error. He conveniently goes on a debugging rampage, while we all know the most logical first step would be rebooting that damn machine. Random memory errors do happen.
He says he "hasn't gotten around" to memtesting his RAM yet. So, let me get this straight... he implies that random cosmic rays caused the error, but he hasn't yet tested his ram for what is the most possible cause of the issue?
Then he goes on to explain that you don't even need to reboot your machine due to damn cosmic radiation. Or kernel updates. Because you have Ksplice.
Not only that, but they are also systems we can only approach from a very abstract perspective when it comes to debugging. Our options to debug complex hardware are very abstract, inaccurate, and incomplete.
100% of the system is read only? I assume you are using a ramdrive or something like that for tmp files and the like? I don't know shit about windows, but I don't think it's going to run without any kind of writable space.
OTOH, if you want a simple solution to this issue, and the system is read-only, I think your simplest antivirus solution is called "reboot".
Of course, you should be looking into running GNU/Linux in this babies. It certainly runs better on Atom than windows ever will.
a) Much cheaper now, they have several A-Z ratecards, some of the reasonably cheap (I have good carriers to compare, their prices are somewhat similar to Verizon(SIP), Voipjet (IAX2) and Minutehub(SIP) on many routes, and cheaper on some, and they have a reasonable quality) b) They do provide SIP access. I have them configured with sip.skype.com in several asterisk servers.
It's not a few bucks in my bill that I care. I worry about my phone sending out data surreptitiously in the middle of the night. What the hell is it sending?
I don't usually bash Apple users. As much as I don't like Apple's practices, and as much as I'd like to see everyone using Free Software, it beats using windows. But this time, this guys scared the fuck out of me. They catch their phone sneaking out data in the middle of the night, and none of them is truly worried about it. They are sort of wondering "Oh, what could it be?". It doesn't matter what it is. Apple has no right to phone home without specific user authorization. The way Apple and Microsoft users have accepted the fact that they don't really own their devices, and that their corporate overlords can control their phone/computer is scary, to say the least.
That's how long it's going to take the community to figure out how it works and create a proxy for it that allows you to use all the cool services without the advertising. It'll probably even be built right into the next version of CUPS. BTW: Fuck you HP, It is my printer, not yours. That's why I don't print much (and if I do, I use my Epson printer with alternative ink and continuous system)
You are right, I made a few mistakes. I saw that video a while ago, when it came out, I didn't remember all the details. You are right about item #2. Regarding #1, I was replying to a comment that stated that the guys where all armed and threatening, but they weren't all armed, and they looked "relaxed" as in, they weren't pointing the few guns they had at anything, and they were civilians. AKA: It wasn't a confrontation, it was a slaughter.
I use WOL extensively. There are so, so many people here saying that this is an improvement because WOL will just wake up the machine for a ping or some other stupid crap. Look, it doesn't work that way. WOL doesn't mean wake up whenever we see network activity. It means wake up if we receive a WOL request. Basically, you need to send a specifically crafted package directed to that specific MAC. That's usually all you'll ever need. On the other hand, Sleep Proxy Server has been around for quite some time... and it's Free Software... where's the improvement here?
That isn't the worst part. Putting all of our attention on a few wrongly lost lives is dignifying what they are doing. This is not about who, why or how they killed, and if it was a reasonable mistake or not. The problem is the whole system. The US stages wars all over the world. That keeps up the supply of crappy nations with destroyed economies. That provides them with cheap labor and safe places to conduct their wars. They need those wars to keep the people behind companies like Lockheed Martin very wealthy and powerful. The US keeps shaping the world the way they need it. First, their allies at the UK kept Africa in poverty so that they could get their supplies of slaves to build a big powerful empire on the cheap. Then they changed tactics, and found that having cheap labor overseas was better. When they needed resources, they just got them from their puppet dictators on Latin America. They imposed the dollar as the strong currency of the world mostly through their proxy dictators all over the world, then used that to get the whole world to buy their debt. The US derives their power and wealth from the very existence of the third world. They are just making sure that there are enough impoverished and destroyed economies around to sustain their game. That is the real problem. That machinery is causing all this murders. Hunger, war, disease... all just different tools they use. Remember, this is the country that made Communism illegal, and convinced all of its population that Communism was "evil". Their intentions are crystal clear. So, it's the whole system that we need to question, not just a few wrongful deaths on the news.
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It's not hard for me to comprehend. But it doesn't make things more complex than necessary.
Also, the whole world uses the metric system. Only the US uses the brain-dead imperial system. So it looks like it's you that don't have what it takes to understand a new system.
It's not about the story behind the unit. If the definition is arbitrary or not doesn't matter at all. What does matter is the way it works. I can tell you exactly how many grams are in a kilogram, and how many grams in a Ton. And that makes perfect sense. It's 10-base. it's metric. It's logical.
Now, try that with the ridiculous conversion ratios between ounces, pounds, stones and all that crazy mumbo-jumbo that is the imperial system.
BTW, where is everyone? I was starting to wonder if the zombie apocalypse had started without me. Noone at /., and no new XKCD yet (It's already 00:08 EST).
FS=Free Software.
I wrote it's. That means "it is". I thought it was pretty clear.
Where they stand, and the power they have right now.
FTFA:
We are going to start to see a number of companies in the embedded
space submitting 3D drivers for mobile devices to the kernel. I'd like
to clarify my position once so they don't all come asking the same
questions.
I hope they use this new found power wisely.
It's not only a great system, and it's FS, it's also going to drive other companies to do the same, and open their code.
http://www.xckd.com/326/
Woooooooosh.
Because of two reasons:
1st) It's too damn slow to run an operating system from it, so they force you to use it as a second disk, through a slow interface like USB, so you won't notice.
2nd) It doesn't work in 99% of all bioses, and it probably requires a special driver to work through USB (at least on winslow systems).
They are masquerading the issues behind USB.
I do not have a side. Wars are stupid and unnecessary, specially in the 21th century.
I am usually except both sides of any war, except in this case we don't actually have a war, because we don't have more than one side.
Afghanistan had a Marxist regimen before the United States decided to fund a small resistance, so the Russians backed up the democratic and legitimate government, and we had a war. For 10 fucking years. After the Soviets were no more, the CIA continued to train and provide funding and armament to the resistance. In 2001, you got an excuse to go in there (Thanks to another CIA sock puppet), and you've been there ever since.
There are small groups of crazy bastards everywhere, and potential conflicts are all around, but those potential conflicts turn into wars when the CIA comes in and trains and finances those groups. Then the army has someone to fight against.
Her husbands murders kids overseas, then dies. That has NOTHING to do with the contract she signed. /Yeah, I'm fucking happy every time a soldier dies. Specially when it's a marine.
The guy that posted this is a Ksplice developer. In case you didn't knew, KSplice allows you to patch your running kernel without rebooting. Nice.
Anyway, this guys sees a random memory error. He conveniently goes on a debugging rampage, while we all know the most logical first step would be rebooting that damn machine. Random memory errors do happen.
He says he "hasn't gotten around" to memtesting his RAM yet. So, let me get this straight ... he implies that random cosmic rays caused the error, but he hasn't yet tested his ram for what is the most possible cause of the issue?
Then he goes on to explain that you don't even need to reboot your machine due to damn cosmic radiation. Or kernel updates. Because you have Ksplice.
Come on.
Not only that, but they are also systems we can only approach from a very abstract perspective when it comes to debugging. Our options to debug complex hardware are very abstract, inaccurate, and incomplete.
100% of the system is read only? I assume you are using a ramdrive or something like that for tmp files and the like? I don't know shit about windows, but I don't think it's going to run without any kind of writable space.
OTOH, if you want a simple solution to this issue, and the system is read-only, I think your simplest antivirus solution is called "reboot".
Of course, you should be looking into running GNU/Linux in this babies. It certainly runs better on Atom than windows ever will.
I think this is more a case of "Look mama, IP over SMS! With No hands!" than a solution for any real world problem.
Skype is:
a) Much cheaper now, they have several A-Z ratecards, some of the reasonably cheap (I have good carriers to compare, their prices are somewhat similar to Verizon(SIP), Voipjet (IAX2) and Minutehub(SIP) on many routes, and cheaper on some, and they have a reasonable quality)
b) They do provide SIP access. I have them configured with sip.skype.com in several asterisk servers.
They did this ~ 10 years ago. The result was windows ME.
Oh ... that is fucking amazing.
User authorization means a checkbox that comes unchecked by default, not some legal bullshit buried deep into the EULA.
It's not a few bucks in my bill that I care. I worry about my phone sending out data surreptitiously in the middle of the night. What the hell is it sending?
I don't usually bash Apple users. As much as I don't like Apple's practices, and as much as I'd like to see everyone using Free Software, it beats using windows. But this time, this guys scared the fuck out of me. They catch their phone sneaking out data in the middle of the night, and none of them is truly worried about it. They are sort of wondering "Oh, what could it be?". It doesn't matter what it is. Apple has no right to phone home without specific user authorization. The way Apple and Microsoft users have accepted the fact that they don't really own their devices, and that their corporate overlords can control their phone/computer is scary, to say the least.
That's how long it's going to take the community to figure out how it works and create a proxy for it that allows you to use all the cool services without the advertising. It'll probably even be built right into the next version of CUPS. BTW: Fuck you HP, It is my printer, not yours. That's why I don't print much (and if I do, I use my Epson printer with alternative ink and continuous system)
You are right, I made a few mistakes. I saw that video a while ago, when it came out, I didn't remember all the details. You are right about item #2. Regarding #1, I was replying to a comment that stated that the guys where all armed and threatening, but they weren't all armed, and they looked "relaxed" as in, they weren't pointing the few guns they had at anything, and they were civilians. AKA: It wasn't a confrontation, it was a slaughter.
I use WOL extensively. There are so, so many people here saying that this is an improvement because WOL will just wake up the machine for a ping or some other stupid crap. Look, it doesn't work that way. WOL doesn't mean wake up whenever we see network activity. It means wake up if we receive a WOL request. Basically, you need to send a specifically crafted package directed to that specific MAC. That's usually all you'll ever need. On the other hand, Sleep Proxy Server has been around for quite some time ... and it's Free Software ... where's the improvement here?
Well, of course I am. I am not a murderer. The only Ethically correct position to analyse this issues is from the outside.
That isn't the worst part. Putting all of our attention on a few wrongly lost lives is dignifying what they are doing. This is not about who, why or how they killed, and if it was a reasonable mistake or not. The problem is the whole system. The US stages wars all over the world. That keeps up the supply of crappy nations with destroyed economies. That provides them with cheap labor and safe places to conduct their wars. They need those wars to keep the people behind companies like Lockheed Martin very wealthy and powerful. The US keeps shaping the world the way they need it. First, their allies at the UK kept Africa in poverty so that they could get their supplies of slaves to build a big powerful empire on the cheap. Then they changed tactics, and found that having cheap labor overseas was better. When they needed resources, they just got them from their puppet dictators on Latin America. They imposed the dollar as the strong currency of the world mostly through their proxy dictators all over the world, then used that to get the whole world to buy their debt. The US derives their power and wealth from the very existence of the third world. They are just making sure that there are enough impoverished and destroyed economies around to sustain their game. That is the real problem. That machinery is causing all this murders. Hunger, war, disease ... all just different tools they use. Remember, this is the country that made Communism illegal, and convinced all of its population that Communism was "evil". Their intentions are crystal clear. So, it's the whole system that we need to question, not just a few wrongful deaths on the news.