It's bad enough that viewing child porn can throw you in prison for 20 years when most who view aren't interested in making it, which is the real crime.
By viewing you are creating a demand for it which someone will fill.
Seriously, unless you're a professional photographer there's no earthly way it makes any sense to print your own photos. More or less anywhere will print them for you at practically the same cost per print, with the added bonus that you don't have the expenditure of buying the printer itself. Then you just have to live with only being able to print in black & white.
I intentionally do not mention colour laser printers because the cheap ones are heading in the same direction as inkjets - the initial cartridges are half-full, a full complement of all consumables costs about double what the machine itself costs.
I can believe it. Frankly, it's a hell of a shame that Linux's detractors (at least on/.) have to focus on things that were last difficult about 5 years ago.
Particularly as there's no shortage of awkward things today, and I'm quite sure I could find a few given an hour or two.
Coming at this from the perspective of a professional Linux sysadmin with quite a few years experience, I find a lot of forums downright painful.
Not because they're difficult to use or search - Google does a perfectly good job of indexing them - but because they are frequently a case of the blind leading the blind. I really have lost count of the number of times I've looked on Google to solve a problem, found a few forums and discovered two things:
1. I'm at a much more advanced point in the process than the OP. (Not really a problem, more an annoyance) 2. The answers given are downright wrong, and demonstrate clearly that the person writing the answers has no understanding of what it is they're talking about. Which I wouldn't know were it not for (1), above. The forum software itself needs some way to mark replies as "helpful" or "unhelpful", much like/.'s moderation system. In an ideal world Google could pick up on this and show helpful replies above unhelpful ones.
Mailing lists for the specific thing you're having trouble with tend to be better - largely because the barrier to entry for posting on a mailing list is rather higher.
Plagiarising shamelessly from wikipedia: Its name derives from a similar command list segments in Multics, a system in which memory segments and files were synonyms.
TBH, the only sensible reason for leaving it as "ls" today is because changing it would be even worse.
These folks delay technology advancement and don't actually produce anything themselves.
But where do you draw the line? You assume that anyone with a patent falls into one of a small number of groups:
1. Doesn't make any effort to do anything useful with the patent. 2. Works hard on products and, licensing or not, does a fair job. 3. Licenses the patent to all and sundry so everyone can work on products based on the patent.
What about 4. Refuses to license the patent, attempts to build a product based on it, sues anyone who infringes yet at the same time does an absolutely appalling job of commercialising it into a useful product. ? There are plenty of examples of this around - hell, see the Wright Brothers and their patents on the earliest aircraft.
Does the sudo part really matter anyway? The most important files on my system are those in my home directory and they're owned by my own user account, thus no privilege escalation is required to touch them.
Furthermore, running with no special privileges you can still:
- Start a process on an unprivileged port (>1024) - Establish a connection to another system. - Put a process in the background so it'll still run after you've logged off. - Subject to permissions, write to network-mounted filesystems. - (depending on cron configuration) Set up a process to run periodically without leaving anything tell-tale to the casual observer in the output of ps unless by sheer blind luck they hit ps when your process is executing. So it would still run on reboot (though it'd be really easy to find if you ever edited your own crontab, a lot of people simply don't bother checking such things).
All of which are quite enough to set up a system as a node on a hypothetical botnet somewhere. Now all you have to do is spread (easy, you've got enough power in that list to email something to everyone you can think of and stick a copy on a fileserver) and persuade people to run you - either intentionally (Click here for pictures of Britney nekkid!) or unintentionally (bug in email application).
Wait, wait, wait, isn't the VERY important difference the fact that the Catholic Church does not condone child abuse, and does not justify the actions of those who acted inappropriately?
Yet senior figures in the Irish catholic church have done everything in their power to suppress investigation of child abuse allegations.
At the risk of being branded a "think of the childruuuuun!" nutjob, suppressing investigation is tantamount to condoning.
I personally think you took one step too far when you afforded the CoS the respect of referring to them as an organized religion. They're not, catholicism is, there's a huge difference.
Yep, about two thousand years and a few million followers.
We give the labels a breakdown of which artists should be accruing what royalties, so they have fairly good information on what they should be paying who.
Given what we've heard about record labels, who wants to bet that when this "fairly good information" gets to the record label it is printed on nice soft paper, cut into individual sheets and then placed in the lavatories?
Where? Most of the hosting services that cheap, the box is setup as nothing but a webserver (and attempting to use it for anything else is a violation of the TOS).
Instead of getting caught up in VPNs and other technical band-aids, he should be demanding that his bank provide a form of two-factor authentication such as a token, scratch-card or SMS, which should all work fine overseas
How exactly is asking the bank to provide something that they almost certainly have no intention of providing - or if they do it certainly won't be rolled out in the next month, otherwise he'd have been told by the bank already - going to help someone who's leaving in January next year?
Embedded development and bootstrapping is the last bastion of necessity in assembly.
Any other use is likely for obfuscation, academia or pride.
If my employer is any guide. it's rapidly dying in embedded development. Processors are fast enough - and optimising compilers sophisticated enough - that assembler is simply unnecessary.
I can't see assembler being in heavy use outside of ever more esoteric branches of embedded development over the next few years.
The mistake any article like this makes is it assumes that the people providing the cheap manufacturing labour are content to continue doing so indefinitely - even when the factory owners can easily find out precisely how much their product is making in the country it's sold in and compare it with the amount they get to see.
History has shown that this is frequently not the case - I refer you to the UK's former motor industry.
Most distributions deal with this problem by splitting packages into as many separate packages as necessary to hold the various libraries that provide such support. Works for me.
However, if you do what I do, and only update packages that have security issues, you'll find that suddenly one day, your profile has expired, and packages you need to bring it up to date have entered and left portage, meaning that you have to jump through hoops just to get Python working enough to update.
It was exactly this that drove to to Debian. You don't generally make changes to a production server unless you really can't help it because every change has a risk of something going wrong and suddenly your production server is in need of serious work to get it back up. You certainly don't want to find that patching one item introduces a raft of new dependencies which require you to re-emerge half the software. Debian understands this. Gentoo doesn't.
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Or you could use Debian and accept that your distribution hasn't been compiled with -Oevery silly little option for a fraction% improvement.
Gentoo claims that picking e.g. core2 over nocona can boost performance by 15% (which seems a bit much to me), so picking the right x86_64 variant is still something that is considered. Not something I worry about though, unless I am compiling from source anyway.
Gentoo makes all sorts of outlandish claims which seldom stack up, in exchange for which you get an OS which if you don't keep it up to date religiously will ultimately suffer bitrot. Over time, emerge <package> becomes less and less reliable.
(Yes, I have used Gentoo. For several years. I concluded at the end that the amount of work was greater than the benefit.)
Surely it depends upon what you mean by "support?"
OpenSolaris is backed by one of the big UNIX developers and is a true, direct lineage UNIX. You can also pay Sun for full enterprise OS support, which could include getting their programmers to fix a particular kernel or core OS bug for you within days.. if you're rich enough to afford the Platinum Support.
And you've bought hardware on their "supported hardware" list.
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It's bad enough that viewing child porn can throw you in prison for 20 years when most who view aren't interested in making it, which is the real crime.
By viewing you are creating a demand for it which someone will fill.
Finally, all UK politicians would simultaneously get a hearts attack, become resuscitated, then get another heart attack.
We can only hope.
Monochrome Laser Printer.
Seriously, unless you're a professional photographer there's no earthly way it makes any sense to print your own photos. More or less anywhere will print them for you at practically the same cost per print, with the added bonus that you don't have the expenditure of buying the printer itself. Then you just have to live with only being able to print in black & white.
I intentionally do not mention colour laser printers because the cheap ones are heading in the same direction as inkjets - the initial cartridges are half-full, a full complement of all consumables costs about double what the machine itself costs.
I can believe it. Frankly, it's a hell of a shame that Linux's detractors (at least on /.) have to focus on things that were last difficult about 5 years ago.
Particularly as there's no shortage of awkward things today, and I'm quite sure I could find a few given an hour or two.
Though to be fair to the OP, it was an absolute PITA to burn CDs. About six or seven years ago.
Coming at this from the perspective of a professional Linux sysadmin with quite a few years experience, I find a lot of forums downright painful.
Not because they're difficult to use or search - Google does a perfectly good job of indexing them - but because they are frequently a case of the blind leading the blind. I really have lost count of the number of times I've looked on Google to solve a problem, found a few forums and discovered two things:
1. I'm at a much more advanced point in the process than the OP. (Not really a problem, more an annoyance) /.'s moderation system. In an ideal world Google could pick up on this and show helpful replies above unhelpful ones.
2. The answers given are downright wrong, and demonstrate clearly that the person writing the answers has no understanding of what it is they're talking about. Which I wouldn't know were it not for (1), above. The forum software itself needs some way to mark replies as "helpful" or "unhelpful", much like
Mailing lists for the specific thing you're having trouble with tend to be better - largely because the barrier to entry for posting on a mailing list is rather higher.
How about this? Man = MANual; ls = LiSt.
Actually, ls = List Segments.
Plagiarising shamelessly from wikipedia: Its name derives from a similar command list segments in Multics, a system in which memory segments and files were synonyms.
TBH, the only sensible reason for leaving it as "ls" today is because changing it would be even worse.
I'd insert a blank CD in the CD ROM drive.
Windows would then automatically pop up a dialog asking me what I want to do with this blank CD - such as write files to it.
Seriously though, I dislike patent squatting.
These folks delay technology advancement and don't actually produce anything themselves.
But where do you draw the line? You assume that anyone with a patent falls into one of a small number of groups:
1. Doesn't make any effort to do anything useful with the patent.
2. Works hard on products and, licensing or not, does a fair job.
3. Licenses the patent to all and sundry so everyone can work on products based on the patent.
What about 4. Refuses to license the patent, attempts to build a product based on it, sues anyone who infringes yet at the same time does an absolutely appalling job of commercialising it into a useful product. ? There are plenty of examples of this around - hell, see the Wright Brothers and their patents on the earliest aircraft.
Does the sudo part really matter anyway? The most important files on my system are those in my home directory and they're owned by my own user account, thus no privilege escalation is required to touch them.
Furthermore, running with no special privileges you can still:
- Start a process on an unprivileged port (>1024)
- Establish a connection to another system.
- Put a process in the background so it'll still run after you've logged off.
- Subject to permissions, write to network-mounted filesystems.
- (depending on cron configuration) Set up a process to run periodically without leaving anything tell-tale to the casual observer in the output of ps unless by sheer blind luck they hit ps when your process is executing. So it would still run on reboot (though it'd be really easy to find if you ever edited your own crontab, a lot of people simply don't bother checking such things).
All of which are quite enough to set up a system as a node on a hypothetical botnet somewhere. Now all you have to do is spread (easy, you've got enough power in that list to email something to everyone you can think of and stick a copy on a fileserver) and persuade people to run you - either intentionally (Click here for pictures of Britney nekkid!) or unintentionally (bug in email application).
Wait, wait, wait, isn't the VERY important difference the fact that the Catholic Church does not condone child abuse, and does not justify the actions of those who acted inappropriately?
Yet senior figures in the Irish catholic church have done everything in their power to suppress investigation of child abuse allegations.
At the risk of being branded a "think of the childruuuuun!" nutjob, suppressing investigation is tantamount to condoning.
I personally think you took one step too far when you afforded the CoS the respect of referring to them as an organized religion. They're not, catholicism is, there's a huge difference.
Yep, about two thousand years and a few million followers.
From TFA:
We give the labels a breakdown of which artists should be accruing what royalties, so they have fairly good information on what they should be paying who.
Given what we've heard about record labels, who wants to bet that when this "fairly good information" gets to the record label it is printed on nice soft paper, cut into individual sheets and then placed in the lavatories?
Where? Most of the hosting services that cheap, the box is setup as nothing but a webserver (and attempting to use it for anything else is a violation of the TOS).
There are plenty of solutions which don't require taking the laptop outside the hotel room.
Not that I've ever seen any of them actually used IRL but they exist.
Instead of getting caught up in VPNs and other technical band-aids, he should be demanding that his bank provide a form of two-factor authentication such as a token, scratch-card or SMS, which should all work fine overseas
How exactly is asking the bank to provide something that they almost certainly have no intention of providing - or if they do it certainly won't be rolled out in the next month, otherwise he'd have been told by the bank already - going to help someone who's leaving in January next year?
Embedded development and bootstrapping is the last bastion of necessity in assembly.
Any other use is likely for obfuscation, academia or pride.
If my employer is any guide. it's rapidly dying in embedded development. Processors are fast enough - and optimising compilers sophisticated enough - that assembler is simply unnecessary.
I can't see assembler being in heavy use outside of ever more esoteric branches of embedded development over the next few years.
The mistake any article like this makes is it assumes that the people providing the cheap manufacturing labour are content to continue doing so indefinitely - even when the factory owners can easily find out precisely how much their product is making in the country it's sold in and compare it with the amount they get to see.
History has shown that this is frequently not the case - I refer you to the UK's former motor industry.
Let me guess - you're not American?
Most distributions deal with this problem by splitting packages into as many separate packages as necessary to hold the various libraries that provide such support. Works for me.
However, if you do what I do, and only update packages that have security issues, you'll find that suddenly one day, your profile has expired, and packages you need to bring it up to date have entered and left portage, meaning that you have to jump through hoops just to get Python working enough to update.
It was exactly this that drove to to Debian. You don't generally make changes to a production server unless you really can't help it because every change has a risk of something going wrong and suddenly your production server is in need of serious work to get it back up. You certainly don't want to find that patching one item introduces a raft of new dependencies which require you to re-emerge half the software. Debian understands this. Gentoo doesn't.
Or you could use Debian and accept that your distribution hasn't been compiled with -Oevery silly little option for a fraction% improvement.
Gentoo claims that picking e.g. core2 over nocona can boost performance by 15% (which seems a bit much to me), so picking the right x86_64 variant is still something that is considered. Not something I worry about though, unless I am compiling from source anyway.
Gentoo makes all sorts of outlandish claims which seldom stack up, in exchange for which you get an OS which if you don't keep it up to date religiously will ultimately suffer bitrot. Over time, emerge <package> becomes less and less reliable.
(Yes, I have used Gentoo. For several years. I concluded at the end that the amount of work was greater than the benefit.)
Surely it depends upon what you mean by "support?"
OpenSolaris is backed by one of the big UNIX developers and is a true, direct lineage UNIX. You can also pay Sun for full enterprise OS support, which could include getting their programmers to fix a particular kernel or core OS bug for you within days.. if you're rich enough to afford the Platinum Support.
And you've bought hardware on their "supported hardware" list.
Great idea - I think we should apply it to MPs as well. Particularly after the expenses scandal.