Mr. Pottering can spell better than that. But I'm afraid that many of the systemd features are being written by people who spell that badly and with such poor grasp of synax. The poster also seems to have no idea of how often development kernels are run in older or slightly out of date to bring new features, especially hardware drivers, into critical, high performance environments. So the "lockstep" systemd and kernel requirements become a much larger issue, because systemd components have become locked to the major systemd release as well.
The Christians and Muslims define Judaism as religious ancestors. Given the historical and archaeological evidence, I think it's a a well supported claim.
"Bringing Christianity to the heathens" was one of the rationalizations of the land grab on native Americans. So it's reasonable to count it as murder and genocide with religious justifications.
I'm finding it difficult to understand your comment that "Jews are that way all over the world" doesn't fit with the idea that Christians in the USA for the last 300 years have not engaged in harassment, even genocide. I raised the Jews as a specific target of US christian abuse: the abuse being global does not contradict that claim.
Black slaves were _definitely_ denied their own religions. Slaves were denied the time and place to practice their former beliefs, compelled to attend Christian churches, and on occassion killed for refusals to abandon previous beliefs and practices The "Santeria" and "Voodoo" traditions that arose in some locations are fascinating mixes of Christian and different African beliefs, but it was certainly not a peaceful melding.
Unless you were native American, in which case your land and property were taken and your people murdered, partly because you weren't Christian. Or if you were black, in which case you were enslaved and forced to a new language and not permitted to follow your old gods. Or, if you were a member of the Latter Day Saints, who were considered non-Christian and heretical and dangerous and were kicked out of state after state until they settled in the effectively empty, very poor land around Salt Lake City. Or unless you were Jewish, which prevented entry into various political and social clubs and even prevented people from doing business with you in various times and places.
Make no pretense that the USA has been consistently tolerant of religious belief. The modern Christian religions may be accepting of other faiths, but they have not always been this way.
> Jews? It's really ludicrous to even bring up the Jews. Jews don't exist. Numerically, that is.
And yet, their cultural identity as the foundation of Christianity and Islam make them culturually. And they are politically very powerful in the Middle East, for many culturual, economic, and technological reasons. So the whole "compare by numbers" concept falls apart very quickly.
Also, many Muslims and even other nations take the ongoing battle with the Palestinians over land, security, and self-government very seriously.
> Black hats are not some cartoonish sinister force
I've worked with both white hat and black hat crackers. Most black hat crackers, by an overwhelming majority, are an _very_ cartoonish. That cartoonish and mostly incompetent majority does not pay their bills, they do not protect the confidentiality of their targets or of their colleagues, they violate their agreements, and they will attack the accounts and systems of the people who have already paid them once.
Are there black hat crackers who keep their deals and their word? Yes, there are I can think of several I consider professional colleagues. They break laws, but they turn around and sell their services to vulnerable clients to shore up their defenses, and I applaud their work. I would expect them be willing to pay a modest sum for a zero-day exploit to add to their toolkit. But they're very much the exception. Go spend some time on the IRC chnnel "4chan" to get a much better sense of what the average black hat cracker is like.
Black hats are even less likely to pay. There's no binding contract to do an illegal thing, no lawyers, and many black hats will simply attack your systems if you try to deal with them, the only loss if they try to rip you off is to their "reputation", and in general they do not care or use a sock puppet anyway.
> Real change and progress in politics comes only as the old people die off and are replaced by the young. It's a slow process!
It seems almost as if the survey didn't include my age group, or many of my colleagues from my age group. Some of us remember the 1960's, the frauds and nonsense of political and federal abuse against Vietnam protesters, and the Nixon era abuses of federal power quite well: Distrust of "the man" was fashionable, but demonstrably justified. And we had older acquaintances who remembered the "House Committee on UnAmerican Activities" of John McCarthy, and who'd lived with state enforced segregation in schools, or with being in American concentration camps for the Nisei, or in European concentration camps for being Jewish, gay, Communist, crippled, or for struggling against the invading armies.
Names change, and techniques of abuse change. So must the demands for liberty, and freedom.
They're only "completely effective" when so thoroughly and effectively used that the bacteria or virus is completely eliminated. That's why smallpox is believed eradicated, there haven't been any new cases since 1978. Polio has repeatedly been close to eradication, but has failed in countries like Nigeria and Pakistan.
The vaccine was tied in local political and religious leader's speeches to harassment of Islam, with claims that the vaccine was designed to sterilize them. By the time the vaccine supply could be examined and verified as untainted by local leaders, it was expired and no longer safe to use. This is why polio remains an infectious disease: according to the "Global Polio Eradication Initiative", Nigeria and Pakistan have the last major reservoirs of existing polio cases, and until it's cleared out of those nations, all other nations are at risk and have to spend their limited medical and educational resources on annual vaccination drives to prevent a resurgence, much like that from Pakistan in 2013. And immunization is _banned_ by Islamic militants in parts of Pakistan. And innocent refugees from the fighting there remain a dangerous vector for polio to be brought to other communities.
Politically, I'd be hard pressed to invent a more dangerous mix of medical issues, religion, and politics if Israel hadn't already been caught forcing refugee women to accept birth control shots, and some of the women injected hadn't thought they were flue vaccines.
Note especially that it was the government of _Israel_ doing this, and Israel is an icon of Western civilization and religious strife for Muslim countries. It lent credence to the most paranoid concerns of the Islamic who've been banning immunization. I admit that it quite incensed me at the time because it discredited the genuine immunization efforts of WHO and helped waste the polio eradication effort in Nigeria.
> Please, please, please stay in that messed up state of California, where you can't balance a budget, manage water resources, or do anything else right...
> Don't come to Texas, you're not welcome here with your commie views...
Texans insulting Californians for water management is quite ironic, at least to anyone who ever reviewed the history of the Dust Bowl. Texan mishandling of water and agriculture were key contributors to the Dust Bowl drought and economic and agricultural ruin of the 1930's. I'm afraid that California is headed the same way, but but it seems unfair to castigate other states for a problem Texas has itself had so profoundly.
Only people with agendas care enough to do the research. It tends to be underpaid and astonishingly frustrating, with live examples of abuse overwhelming objectivity.
> I even agree that the papers should be accessible.
The papers are accessible. It's the extensive organization and indexing, which takes time and research and developers and databases to produce, that make JSTOR so useful and with Aaron Schrwartz was replicating wholesale. JSTOR is a non-profit, doing their level best to make the information as widely available as possible. They're generous with free subscriptions for libraries and schools with fiscal issues, and many if not most of their subscribers allow free individual access, to non-members, with JSTOR's blessing.
Names, dates, times, and places, please. I've encountered too many script kiddies blaming everyone else but themselves for getting caught, and I've not seen _any_ of them punished to match the extent of wasted time, money, and sometimes risk to others they've caused. And yes, I remember the 60's when people blamed "the man" for their inability to take care of themselves or anyone else.
> hat's stupid. You only need to delay settlement by seconds, force the buyer to hold for 6 minutes, and the HFT system is broken.
Yes, and good riddance to it. It's arbitrage on a tremendous scale, sicking thought and personal investment right out of hte market into the pockets of those with the fastest connections. The "high frequency trading" market became very strange when companies started selling FPGA's to connect directly to the fiber optic feeds leaving the stock exchanges. I understand a number of extremely expensive data centers low latency network basically fell apart when that technology became commercially available.
Close it, no. But have you carefully examined "Trusted Computing". The idea is to enforce key based hardware authentication and data access in the boot loader that loads the operating system, the kernel itself, the applications, the system files, and in attached media. It's presented as a security stack, but the implementation is aimed at DRM at every level of the software stack. And the private keys are held in escrow, mostly by Microsoft, with retains the root keys to sign new keys or to revoke old others, so the system can be used to allow "authorized" access for others or to revoke your own access to your own data.
The system is quite dangerous if you fear that the central escrow holding user's private keys will be handed over to abusive governments, or revoked to block access to personal data. I'm afraid I've seen no technical or political reason yet to assume that it will _not_ be abused.
The "real facts from the fictional story" is an intriguing phrase.
Different versions of Superman's origin have appeared in different comic book timelines, including some where Superman gestated in the "rocket ship" sip sent to Earth. I was thinking particularly of The Man of Steel" mini-series, which rebooted the Superman storyline after the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" restarted many DC storelines. I felt at the time that it was one of the better super hero reboots after the "Crisis" stories let DC discard decades of conflicting continuity.
Which of these is "canon" can tie lawyers, editors, and fans into intriguing debates, and you've a point that I left out the other versions. I must admit that I've enjoyed different authors with different stories of the same concept.
Actuaqlly, according to DC comic book history, he was born in Kansas. The spaceship that the Kents found was considered an artificial womb, and in at least one comic book storyline, the Supreme Court ruled that he was born when he left the spacecraft.
"Truth, Justice, and the American Way" made me think of Superman's decades long heroic ideal of justice, and overwhelming power deployed in the most postive and helpful ways possible. Interestingly, Superman renounced his US citizenship because it "wasn't enough anymore".
To the best of my limited historical knowledge, the number of dead was raised considerably after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, which included roughly half of those 30 million estimated deaths, lied about their population and economy both during and after the war. This came out in historical records made available with less political and propaganda control after the fall of the Soviet Unioin.
This sort of thing is precisely what the "Fair Use" excemption in copyright law is for. How can there even be a legal question about this, at least in US law for Random House?
Microsoft has done this before, when they provided covert support to SCO's fundamentally fraudulent lawsuits against Linux users. Rather than fund the SCO Group directly, they encouraged their business "partners" to buy from SCO Group, which kept the company afloat. It was a qu8ite "win-win" strategy for Microsoft. The lawsuits hurt business for many freeware and open source projects, especially Linux based projects. If SCO eventually failed, the nominal owners of a major UNIX distribution would go bankrupt, and their partners who wanted non-Microsoft tools would get them from a company that had collapsed. And the lawsuits from the SCO Group went on much, much longer and caused far more damage to Linux vendors than would have been possible without some outside funding. Doing the fiscal support through partners reduced any legal obligation or risk to Microsoft from their sponsorship.
These details all used to show on www.groklaw.net, whose thoughtful legal analyses and detailed reporting are missed by many.
Except when they _are_ granted There are many mixed software/hardware patents, especially in the UK where the EU policy is applied inconsistently or even violated. Software patents also keep being considered in negotiations on international patent law with the USA.
Yes, perhaps you should read the "About" page at https://www.coinbase.com/about where they describe themselves as "a bitcoin wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with the new digital currency bitcoin". So they've blurred the lines between a pure 'merchant service' and a bitcoin wallet, just as I described.
Being "professional" does not mean a company is legal or ethical, anymore than being rich does. Silk Road and MyCoin were "professoinal", and quite well known, and now are facing various well earned criminal prosecutions. Being bitcoin based did not make them criminal, but the bitcoin sub-economy doesn't have the historical regulations and protections real currency has, so the abuse is very real and not surprising at all.
Many cities have had problems with E. Coli contamination in their water supplies during flooding in the spring, and many farm districts have had water contamination as larger agribusinesses are careless with runoff water from larger fertilized croplands, and large grazing areas. It's a serious problem for low-rent districts near large, high yield farms that become careless when reducing costs and seeking higher profits. Areas that experience hurricans fairly frequently, such as Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, and others have had problems after destructive hurricanes.
The general availability of high quality drinking water is not a given, especially if you're poor.
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Mr. Pottering can spell better than that. But I'm afraid that many of the systemd features are being written by people who spell that badly and with such poor grasp of synax. The poster also seems to have no idea of how often development kernels are run in older or slightly out of date to bring new features, especially hardware drivers, into critical, high performance environments. So the "lockstep" systemd and kernel requirements become a much larger issue, because systemd components have become locked to the major systemd release as well.
The Christians and Muslims define Judaism as religious ancestors. Given the historical and archaeological evidence, I think it's a a well supported claim.
"Bringing Christianity to the heathens" was one of the rationalizations of the land grab on native Americans. So it's reasonable to count it as murder and genocide with religious justifications.
I'm finding it difficult to understand your comment that "Jews are that way all over the world" doesn't fit with the idea that Christians in the USA for the last 300 years have not engaged in harassment, even genocide. I raised the Jews as a specific target of US christian abuse: the abuse being global does not contradict that claim.
Black slaves were _definitely_ denied their own religions. Slaves were denied the time and place to practice their former beliefs, compelled to attend Christian churches, and on occassion killed for refusals to abandon previous beliefs and practices The "Santeria" and "Voodoo" traditions that arose in some locations are fascinating mixes of Christian and different African beliefs, but it was certainly not a peaceful melding.
> We didn't have any inquisitions.
Unless you were native American, in which case your land and property were taken and your people murdered, partly because you weren't Christian. Or if you were black, in which case you were enslaved and forced to a new language and not permitted to follow your old gods. Or, if you were a member of the Latter Day Saints, who were considered non-Christian and heretical and dangerous and were kicked out of state after state until they settled in the effectively empty, very poor land around Salt Lake City. Or unless you were Jewish, which prevented entry into various political and social clubs and even prevented people from doing business with you in various times and places.
Make no pretense that the USA has been consistently tolerant of religious belief. The modern Christian religions may be accepting of other faiths, but they have not always been this way.
> Jews? It's really ludicrous to even bring up the Jews. Jews don't exist. Numerically, that is.
And yet, their cultural identity as the foundation of Christianity and Islam make them culturually. And they are politically very powerful in the Middle East, for many culturual, economic, and technological reasons. So the whole "compare by numbers" concept falls apart very quickly.
Also, many Muslims and even other nations take the ongoing battle with the Palestinians over land, security, and self-government very seriously.
> Black hats are not some cartoonish sinister force
I've worked with both white hat and black hat crackers. Most black hat crackers, by an overwhelming majority, are an _very_ cartoonish. That cartoonish and mostly incompetent majority does not pay their bills, they do not protect the confidentiality of their targets or of their colleagues, they violate their agreements, and they will attack the accounts and systems of the people who have already paid them once.
Are there black hat crackers who keep their deals and their word? Yes, there are I can think of several I consider professional colleagues. They break laws, but they turn around and sell their services to vulnerable clients to shore up their defenses, and I applaud their work. I would expect them be willing to pay a modest sum for a zero-day exploit to add to their toolkit. But they're very much the exception. Go spend some time on the IRC chnnel "4chan" to get a much better sense of what the average black hat cracker is like.
Black hats are even less likely to pay. There's no binding contract to do an illegal thing, no lawyers, and many black hats will simply attack your systems if you try to deal with them, the only loss if they try to rip you off is to their "reputation", and in general they do not care or use a sock puppet anyway.
> Real change and progress in politics comes only as the old people die off and are replaced by the young. It's a slow process!
It seems almost as if the survey didn't include my age group, or many of my colleagues from my age group. Some of us remember the 1960's, the frauds and nonsense of political and federal abuse against Vietnam protesters, and the Nixon era abuses of federal power quite well: Distrust of "the man" was fashionable, but demonstrably justified. And we had older acquaintances who remembered the "House Committee on UnAmerican Activities" of John McCarthy, and who'd lived with state enforced segregation in schools, or with being in American concentration camps for the Nisei, or in European concentration camps for being Jewish, gay, Communist, crippled, or for struggling against the invading armies.
Names change, and techniques of abuse change. So must the demands for liberty, and freedom.
They're only "completely effective" when so thoroughly and effectively used that the bacteria or virus is completely eliminated. That's why smallpox is believed eradicated, there haven't been any new cases since 1978. Polio has repeatedly been close to eradication, but has failed in countries like Nigeria and Pakistan.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
The vaccine was tied in local political and religious leader's speeches to harassment of Islam, with claims that the vaccine was designed to sterilize them. By the time the vaccine supply could be examined and verified as untainted by local leaders, it was expired and no longer safe to use. This is why polio remains an infectious disease: according to the "Global Polio Eradication Initiative", Nigeria and Pakistan have the last major reservoirs of existing polio cases, and until it's cleared out of those nations, all other nations are at risk and have to spend their limited medical and educational resources on annual vaccination drives to prevent a resurgence, much like that from Pakistan in 2013. And immunization is _banned_ by Islamic militants in parts of Pakistan. And innocent refugees from the fighting there remain a dangerous vector for polio to be brought to other communities.
Politically, I'd be hard pressed to invent a more dangerous mix of medical issues, religion, and politics if Israel hadn't already been caught forcing refugee women to accept birth control shots, and some of the women injected hadn't thought they were flue vaccines.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Note especially that it was the government of _Israel_ doing this, and Israel is an icon of Western civilization and religious strife for Muslim countries. It lent credence to the most paranoid concerns of the Islamic who've been banning immunization. I admit that it quite incensed me at the time because it discredited the genuine immunization efforts of WHO and helped waste the polio eradication effort in Nigeria.
> Please, please, please stay in that messed up state of California, where you can't balance a budget, manage water resources, or do anything else right...
> Don't come to Texas, you're not welcome here with your commie views...
Texans insulting Californians for water management is quite ironic, at least to anyone who ever reviewed the history of the Dust Bowl. Texan mishandling of water and agriculture were key contributors to the Dust Bowl drought and economic and agricultural ruin of the 1930's. I'm afraid that California is headed the same way, but but it seems unfair to castigate other states for a problem Texas has itself had so profoundly.
Only people with agendas care enough to do the research. It tends to be underpaid and astonishingly frustrating, with live examples of abuse overwhelming objectivity.
> I even agree that the papers should be accessible.
The papers are accessible. It's the extensive organization and indexing, which takes time and research and developers and databases to produce, that make JSTOR so useful and with Aaron Schrwartz was replicating wholesale. JSTOR is a non-profit, doing their level best to make the information as widely available as possible. They're generous with free subscriptions for libraries and schools with fiscal issues, and many if not most of their subscribers allow free individual access, to non-members, with JSTOR's blessing.
Names, dates, times, and places, please. I've encountered too many script kiddies blaming everyone else but themselves for getting caught, and I've not seen _any_ of them punished to match the extent of wasted time, money, and sometimes risk to others they've caused. And yes, I remember the 60's when people blamed "the man" for their inability to take care of themselves or anyone else.
> hat's stupid. You only need to delay settlement by seconds, force the buyer to hold for 6 minutes, and the HFT system is broken.
Yes, and good riddance to it. It's arbitrage on a tremendous scale, sicking thought and personal investment right out of hte market into the pockets of those with the fastest connections. The "high frequency trading" market became very strange when companies started selling FPGA's to connect directly to the fiber optic feeds leaving the stock exchanges. I understand a number of extremely expensive data centers low latency network basically fell apart when that technology became commercially available.
Close it, no. But have you carefully examined "Trusted Computing". The idea is to enforce key based hardware authentication and data access in the boot loader that loads the operating system, the kernel itself, the applications, the system files, and in attached media. It's presented as a security stack, but the implementation is aimed at DRM at every level of the software stack. And the private keys are held in escrow, mostly by Microsoft, with retains the root keys to sign new keys or to revoke old others, so the system can be used to allow "authorized" access for others or to revoke your own access to your own data.
The system is quite dangerous if you fear that the central escrow holding user's private keys will be handed over to abusive governments, or revoked to block access to personal data. I'm afraid I've seen no technical or political reason yet to assume that it will _not_ be abused.
The "real facts from the fictional story" is an intriguing phrase.
Different versions of Superman's origin have appeared in different comic book timelines, including some where Superman gestated in the "rocket ship" sip sent to Earth. I was thinking particularly of The Man of Steel" mini-series, which rebooted the Superman storyline after the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" restarted many DC storelines. I felt at the time that it was one of the better super hero reboots after the "Crisis" stories let DC discard decades of conflicting continuity.
Which of these is "canon" can tie lawyers, editors, and fans into intriguing debates, and you've a point that I left out the other versions. I must admit that I've enjoyed different authors with different stories of the same concept.
Actuaqlly, according to DC comic book history, he was born in Kansas. The spaceship that the Kents found was considered an artificial womb, and in at least one comic book storyline, the Supreme Court ruled that he was born when he left the spacecraft.
> They aren't recognized in any US courts.
I'm afraid they are: the Supreme Court ruled that it's up to individual jurisdictions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
"Truth, Justice, and the American Way" made me think of Superman's decades long heroic ideal of justice, and overwhelming power deployed in the most postive and helpful ways possible. Interestingly, Superman renounced his US citizenship because it "wasn't enough anymore".
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
To the best of my limited historical knowledge, the number of dead was raised considerably after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, which included roughly half of those 30 million estimated deaths, lied about their population and economy both during and after the war. This came out in historical records made available with less political and propaganda control after the fall of the Soviet Unioin.
This sort of thing is precisely what the "Fair Use" excemption in copyright law is for. How can there even be a legal question about this, at least in US law for Random House?
Microsoft has done this before, when they provided covert support to SCO's fundamentally fraudulent lawsuits against Linux users. Rather than fund the SCO Group directly, they encouraged their business "partners" to buy from SCO Group, which kept the company afloat. It was a qu8ite "win-win" strategy for Microsoft. The lawsuits hurt business for many freeware and open source projects, especially Linux based projects. If SCO eventually failed, the nominal owners of a major UNIX distribution would go bankrupt, and their partners who wanted non-Microsoft tools would get them from a company that had collapsed. And the lawsuits from the SCO Group went on much, much longer and caused far more damage to Linux vendors than would have been possible without some outside funding. Doing the fiscal support through partners reduced any legal obligation or risk to Microsoft from their sponsorship.
These details all used to show on www.groklaw.net, whose thoughtful legal analyses and detailed reporting are missed by many.
Except when they _are_ granted There are many mixed software/hardware patents, especially in the UK where the EU policy is applied inconsistently or even violated. Software patents also keep being considered in negotiations on international patent law with the USA.
Wikipedia has some good links and discussion of the issue, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S....
Yes, perhaps you should read the "About" page at https://www.coinbase.com/about where they describe themselves as "a bitcoin wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with the new digital currency bitcoin". So they've blurred the lines between a pure 'merchant service' and a bitcoin wallet, just as I described.
Being "professional" does not mean a company is legal or ethical, anymore than being rich does. Silk Road and MyCoin were "professoinal", and quite well known, and now are facing various well earned criminal prosecutions. Being bitcoin based did not make them criminal, but the bitcoin sub-economy doesn't have the historical regulations and protections real currency has, so the abuse is very real and not surprising at all.
Many cities have had problems with E. Coli contamination in their water supplies during flooding in the spring, and many farm districts have had water contamination as larger agribusinesses are careless with runoff water from larger fertilized croplands, and large grazing areas. It's a serious problem for low-rent districts near large, high yield farms that become careless when reducing costs and seeking higher profits. Areas that experience hurricans fairly frequently, such as Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, and others have had problems after destructive hurricanes.
The general availability of high quality drinking water is not a given, especially if you're poor.