I'm with ya on that, seems like everyone is a hypocrite these days. Like Cheney's daughter trying to justify torture as somehow not an abandonment of everything the United States stands for. Violating your principles is the surest sign of weakness in my mind.
Much has gone wrong in the middle east and a lot of countries are to blame, and not just middle eastern countries. Russia, France, the UK, The US in particular meddled a lot in the region and in many ways contributed to the destabilization. Until all the foreign countries to the region come to a consensus there will be little movement as economic interests from one country impact the security of another. We're all friends these days, we should start acting like it.
The problem is that people don't want to go to a thousand different places for content but they want to be able to go to a few different places. A user going to the Pirate Bay will find anything in digital format whether it be a movie, a book, or music, or games, or anything. Only Amazon is positioned to provide this service and even then, the catalog is limited. Start-ups will fail because they don't have a large initial catalog and 99 cents per song adds up real quick making for a $16 cd which is the standard price. I'm aware albums bought as a whole cost a little less but the reality is that the price has stayed the same for something that now costs much much less to produce.
It's the Hulu dilemma. The initial glimmer wares off and you find yourself wanting to watch a show that's not on the site so you end up as Casttv.com and never go back as there are no intrusive ads that are showing up more and more often. Of course Hulu is special as they detect when you don't download ads and make you wait 30 seconds to resume content instead of 15. They actually tell you to turn off your ad blocking software. Why would I install it if I wanted to see ads? The problem there is that advertising went way over the top and even that is for a lot of reasons so the issue snowballs. All of this crap you deal with trying to stay legal. Go to the Pirate Bay, download your torrent and away you go. It's much much simpler and you don't have thousands of annoying ads and you get more content. I can't imagine why people would want that!
I would be curious about the number of people that purchase from iTunes that still pirate. I would guess that they are different demographics but admittedly I don't have any evidence for that assertion. All the BS has driven me to explore different music not from the big labels. They let me download their songs from their site. If I think their album is high quality then I buy it. Magnatunes is a great model.
I think you forget that a republican congress passed the DMCA. They both bend over backwards for big media. It makes sense given that they need them for exposure to get re-elected.
The problem is that the U.S. falls asleep and becomes complacent. Think of this country back in the 1920s and 30s. Once there is enough political will things will change rather rapidly. There is a long slope for those of us that see what both sides are doing as wrong. I do see more and more people getting fed up with both sides. The republican party has completely fallen apart and look like children. The democratic party can't stop arguing amongst itself. Look at the shamble that is the health care legislation. Finally I see someone on TV stop talking about the dollar amounts and start talking about how many lives it would save.
I would say that the U.S. is starting to stir, we're not awake yet as 8 years of Bush made a lot of people numb. Fortunately there are a lot of people that expected real change from Obama so getting burned by the two major parties will do a lot to change the way people think.
As I said, that is all irrelevant as its still not a criminal matter and thus, he should not be in jail. I don't think anyone questioned whether or not he should have been fired from his post. That is a different conversation and given his behavior it's understandable that he should be terminated especially since he was violating company policy. Again, this is NOT criminal.
It also doesn't address the fact that he built an entire city wide network without following policy which means he was not properly supervised to begin with.
This is a lot like my experience as a juror. The guy on trial was a total douche bag, so was the supposed victim. That doesn't play into whether he was guilty or not as you have to determine if he broke a criminal statute. We ultimately agreed that he did not and Childs also has not broken any statute, only violated policy repeatedly which is grounds for dismissal.
Our company lawyer as repeatedly stated that passwords are personal property since they are used to identify a person. If they used my fingerprint for access to the building, that fingerprint is my data and not the company's even though the company is storing that information because it identifies me alone which is what a good access control system does.
So is having three different incompatible cell phone infrastructures. There is a lot of waste through-out the technology driven industries. That's the problem with capitalism, you have duplicated efforts competing for your dollar. It's the price we have chosen to pay for freedom to choose despite the fact that cell phone companies could have been forced to build common infrastructure resulting in much better deployment today but the government was hands off and that's what you get. Would we be better off if they had? I have no idea but its the same story for batteries. The only difference is that a new battery standard could be developed today while forming a cell standard would be nearly impossible.
Perhaps because that is irrelevant to the case at hand. Even if a password is IP which its not since a password is used for identification and authorization and thus would need to changed immediately after the person is fired he was still under no legal obligation to expose passwords to systems that he protects.
The whole case is stupid and I haven't heard anything that would be deemed criminal, violation of contracts sure are possible but that doesn't land you in jail. Once a company fires an individual that individual is under no obligation to the company. Even non-compete clauses don't hold up in court for this very reason. The city should have sued him for the information if they thought he had some obligation, not thrown him in jail and there were no laws broken unless of course he did access their systems after he was terminated.
This case puts a lot of sysadmins in danger and that includes myself. I don't give passwords to my boss, I'm not required to nor would he ask for passwords since there is a blanket company policy of never give out a password. It's not needed for anything. When the owner comes up and says this guy needs access to everything I have access to he doesn't get my password, he gets his own logon with access to all the same things that I have. Asking for passwords is asinine.
Everything management did and even admitted shows just has incompetent they were, they failed to maintain an access management system that would survive the bus test. If he had been hit by a bus they'd be in the same situation except without the passwords even to this day. Then asking him for the passwords in front of a large number of people all of whom are not authorized to have the passwords and you land yourself in a situation where Childs acted in the way that most security conscious admins would. Passwords are not IP, I have no idea how you came up with that ridiculous notion. Do you understand that information has to be copyrighted for it to be IP? There are only a very few circumstances in which copyright is automatic and this wouldn't qualify since a public works project doesn't retain any IP since it's by definition public.
Except that you're complete wrong on all counts given that both events were scheduled. Eopen was supposed to end and Microsoft gave all of us plenty of notice of this. The new site was working for a while but is down for scheduled maintenance. This isn't near as bad as you're making it out to be. It's amazing how people will look for even non-existent reasons to bash MS when there are so many legit reasons.
Measure the power of a modern core switch at half load versus full load. The difference is minimal especially once you factor in reduced load combined with over-subscription by the ISPs to get the load back up. Sorry, this is not a real issue and you shouldn't resort to name calling as it doesn't help your position any.
Really? I had a 768k/384k connection in rural Vermont, in a town of less than 1000 people and that was back in 1997. The fact is, we gave them billions of dollars to upgrade their infrastructure and they used the money inappropriately and now they have the nerve to complain that they can't meet demand? No sympathy for ATT thats for sure. There was plenty of spare money, they chose to spend our tax dollars unwisely and the complete lack of oversight in the money we gave them allowed it all to happen.
You left out the fact that the cost of electricity for the ISP and the cost of labor is pretty much static whether you're just using your connection for email or doing full on HD broadcasts. The issue is how they handle their peering arrangements, when you cross out of your local ISP's network it starts to cost them money. In large providers this peering doesn't cost as there is a reciprocity agreement in place. The problem is that they are unwilling to arrangement their networks appropriately with some providers offloading traffic to other providers so that they don't have to build out as much of their own infrastructure. This is has caused a lot of friction between large providers and is not the fault of customers downloading too much content.
While I respect your opinion, modern history isn't on your side. Bush cut taxes and jobs still went overseas by the millions and we ended up here. I'll grant that Reagan set it all in motion though and that Bush Sr, Clinton, and Bush Jr only extended the poor policy decisions.
Trickle down economics works on small scales where employers and employees actually know each other. I see this problem only getting worse as so far nothing is being done to radically change how we behave. The only solution to the crisis is less spending, not more! This of course has it problems as it will indeed depress the economy but it is the only way to get back on track fiscally.
That is only stupid because of stupid laws that make the action stupid. It is perfectly reasonable to want to film a birthday party and showing a snippet from the movie would be a way to establish context, just like when you're filming your friends at a concert, you'll point the camera at the stage to show the artist to establish where you were on that occasion.
Since she clearly didn't even try to film the whole thing her intent was clear and intent matters for every other crime out there except for this.
You are instantly many hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for getting caught filming in theater. That amounts for most of us, far more than three years of punishment and indeed for most far more than even 15 years which covers the majority of violent crimes out there.
Holy crap man, thanks for reminding me about Crossfire, I just went and watched it again. It's hilarious to see how they just don't get it that he's not a journalist.
I think you have a point, but I also think its because he comes from a comedy background where blunt honesty is pretty common.
You think ATT is any better? What do you do when you have to pick between Company A that will abuse you, Company B that will abuse you, or Company C that will abuse you? You get modern America! We did it! Yay! I have the opposite problem you do, at one of my event sites all I can get is ATT DSL which got slower after they bought out SBC. Comcast needs to extend their cable 1000 feet and I can have cable Internet at my site instead of 3meg DSL! Course Comcast cable sucks there too at something like 15meg which is frustrating since I live in AZ where I can get 50meg residential cable. Quite annoying!
You cannot prove a negative so the an inconclusive test shows there is no evidence in support of the hypothesis that cell phones cause cancer. There is no evidence for it, that is all they are saying. They acknowledge the weaknesses of their study and extrapolate their conclusion based on the evidence. This is good science for once!
I'm referring to the beginning of the Bush Jr first term. Then O-Reilly wasn't so cracked out and no one really knew about Glenn Beck.
I definitely agree with you about Fark though! I don't think CNN is dishonest, they are merely becoming irrelevant. Reporting on SNL and the Daily Show and airing every user contributed snippet they can find makes people think of them less and less as a news agency. Of course CNN Headline news isn't quite as bad.
Sorry, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater because it could potentially harm a large number of people. I think it is fair to say that a channel portraying itself as a News agency has to be held to a higher standard than a channel such as Comedy Central which clearly states that their news is fake. In many ways its false advertising but those laws don't apply to the press when really they should. The truth is not subjective and disseminating false information I believe does harm a population especially when you can disseminate it to millions.
While I agree that you should never trust 100% any one entity I also understand that the vast majority of the country doesn't want to try that hard to get news so they end up watching MSNBC if they are Democrat or Fox if they are Republican. After having watched both I can saw however that Fox actively works to distort reality such as using footage of older rallies with larger crowds and the outright lying about Jon Stewart's stance towards global warming. Some of their actions are truly atrocious and damaging to the political climate. Debate about issues is healthy but Fox isn't promoting discussion, they are actively promoting an agenda. If they didn't call themselves a news network no one would have a problem with this.
The ole expression absolute power corrupts absolutely has always been and will always be true. It is interesting to see Obama mimicking Bush on so many level and watching republicans blast him for it. That's why I say, never grant a power to the government unless you're willing for people that disagree with you to wield the power. This is why the back and forth has been healthy in the past. Now, there is no much instant access to information that it's hard for a government to do a proper cover-up anymore. People that have always been stupid are finally getting thrust into the limelight and surprise surprise, they don't like it! It's like those republicans that voted against an amendment that would give more rights to rape victims of multi-national companies that promote hostile work environments overseas. They were surprised that people wouldn't like them supporting rapist! Then of course they are looking for someone to blame. At least the democratic party is fragmented as always so they don't wield as much power in the majority as the republicans did when they were a majority.
I think the political climate is finally shifting with people being properly annoyed with both parties. A healthy system it would be if we had 5 or 6 parties or more! Course I'd like to get rid of political parties altogether but I understand that will never happen.
Isn't this a sad state of affairs when Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are considered honest media? JS even called out Obama for his speech echoing that of one Bush made for the troop surge. I've been trying to watch more of the other networks lately because I stopped for so long, I wanted to see how they'd improved. MSNBC is pretty much the same as it has ever been although they seem to support the Daily Show. Fox has pretty much been doin a nose dive since they were created. Remember when O'Reilly was watchable? Certainly not the case anymore when you have him blatantly asking people to ignore the constitution to state how they really feel public policy should be. They of course do everything in their power to discredit the Daily Show. Then there's CNN, well, they are a shadow of their former selves, the CNN story is the truly sad one as they used to be great! They seem neutral to the Daily Show but the mere fact that all three report on the Daily Show and even go so far as editing clips to make it look like JS is saying something completely different, thank you Fox News, this is what is truly very sad! The show that advertises itself as fake news is considered more legitimate than all the major outlets! Thankfully there are other sources for the rest of us, I'll try again in another year or so to see if there have been anymore changes in TV news. I don't hold out much hope though.
The problem is that any documentation that does get written gets outdated very quickly. This compounds the problem since people will be using older versions of software and only find recent documentation or people will be using new software and only finding old documentation. This leaves the user the necessity of picking which parts are relevant from sources based on knowledge that there is no easy way to gain without experience. For instance, installing Oracle 11g on a Xen hosted VM. As long as you pick a distro with a PV kernel in the installer you're pretty good to go, otherwise you've got a lot of work ahead of ya! Should have seen how long it took me to get Ubuntu running in a VM. Ended up having to steal a Debian kernel since Ubuntu stopped supporting Xen for a while. I hear it will be back soon though when they catch up to the latest kernel that Ubuntu is running.
That is a good point, I never even thought of that as I naturally get apps from the repository once a page tells me what app I need. I just did it naturally because I always prefer to install something that will receive updates for any vulnerabilities or bug fixes. I imagine a lot of people wouldn't know to do that though. Of course there are a number of times I have to get apps outside the repository still. I can install phpMyAdmin, Asterisk, but not FreePBX for instance. Talking more specifically about Ubuntu there and I understand why after install FreePBX manually on it. Quite the pain in the arse!
Of course the main reason that it's a pain is because there is more than one way to do it so the documentation that does exist is fragmented leaving the user the exercise of figuring out what is relevant from which how-to since together they probably have all the info you need. The flexibility of the Linux environment is what causes a lot of this. If there was only one way to do it then some people wouldn't be able to do it depending on their environments. Because of this I expect usability to lag behind.
I think the real problem is the development pace of any Linux distro and the sheer number of variables there are. Everytime a library gets updated it could have dramatic ramifications for multiple apps even affecting how the apps have to be called thus requiring an update to documentation unrelated to the development of the specific tool.
There needs to be a centralized repository for all projects with dependency changes tracked so project authors can know when documentation needs to be updated. This is by no means an easy proposition so late in the game. This project would have to cross distributions. Different distros use the same tools, they generally just use different versions. This all of course would have to be standardized much like the BSD world enjoys.
If FreeBSD supported as much hardware as the Linux world I would be over there.
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I'm with ya on that, seems like everyone is a hypocrite these days. Like Cheney's daughter trying to justify torture as somehow not an abandonment of everything the United States stands for. Violating your principles is the surest sign of weakness in my mind.
Much has gone wrong in the middle east and a lot of countries are to blame, and not just middle eastern countries. Russia, France, the UK, The US in particular meddled a lot in the region and in many ways contributed to the destabilization. Until all the foreign countries to the region come to a consensus there will be little movement as economic interests from one country impact the security of another. We're all friends these days, we should start acting like it.
He was a democrat, what's your point?
The problem is that people don't want to go to a thousand different places for content but they want to be able to go to a few different places. A user going to the Pirate Bay will find anything in digital format whether it be a movie, a book, or music, or games, or anything. Only Amazon is positioned to provide this service and even then, the catalog is limited. Start-ups will fail because they don't have a large initial catalog and 99 cents per song adds up real quick making for a $16 cd which is the standard price. I'm aware albums bought as a whole cost a little less but the reality is that the price has stayed the same for something that now costs much much less to produce.
It's the Hulu dilemma. The initial glimmer wares off and you find yourself wanting to watch a show that's not on the site so you end up as Casttv.com and never go back as there are no intrusive ads that are showing up more and more often. Of course Hulu is special as they detect when you don't download ads and make you wait 30 seconds to resume content instead of 15. They actually tell you to turn off your ad blocking software. Why would I install it if I wanted to see ads? The problem there is that advertising went way over the top and even that is for a lot of reasons so the issue snowballs. All of this crap you deal with trying to stay legal. Go to the Pirate Bay, download your torrent and away you go. It's much much simpler and you don't have thousands of annoying ads and you get more content. I can't imagine why people would want that!
I would be curious about the number of people that purchase from iTunes that still pirate. I would guess that they are different demographics but admittedly I don't have any evidence for that assertion. All the BS has driven me to explore different music not from the big labels. They let me download their songs from their site. If I think their album is high quality then I buy it. Magnatunes is a great model.
I think you forget that a republican congress passed the DMCA. They both bend over backwards for big media. It makes sense given that they need them for exposure to get re-elected.
The problem is that the U.S. falls asleep and becomes complacent. Think of this country back in the 1920s and 30s. Once there is enough political will things will change rather rapidly. There is a long slope for those of us that see what both sides are doing as wrong. I do see more and more people getting fed up with both sides. The republican party has completely fallen apart and look like children. The democratic party can't stop arguing amongst itself. Look at the shamble that is the health care legislation. Finally I see someone on TV stop talking about the dollar amounts and start talking about how many lives it would save.
I would say that the U.S. is starting to stir, we're not awake yet as 8 years of Bush made a lot of people numb. Fortunately there are a lot of people that expected real change from Obama so getting burned by the two major parties will do a lot to change the way people think.
As I said, that is all irrelevant as its still not a criminal matter and thus, he should not be in jail. I don't think anyone questioned whether or not he should have been fired from his post. That is a different conversation and given his behavior it's understandable that he should be terminated especially since he was violating company policy. Again, this is NOT criminal.
It also doesn't address the fact that he built an entire city wide network without following policy which means he was not properly supervised to begin with.
This is a lot like my experience as a juror. The guy on trial was a total douche bag, so was the supposed victim. That doesn't play into whether he was guilty or not as you have to determine if he broke a criminal statute. We ultimately agreed that he did not and Childs also has not broken any statute, only violated policy repeatedly which is grounds for dismissal.
Our company lawyer as repeatedly stated that passwords are personal property since they are used to identify a person. If they used my fingerprint for access to the building, that fingerprint is my data and not the company's even though the company is storing that information because it identifies me alone which is what a good access control system does.
So is having three different incompatible cell phone infrastructures. There is a lot of waste through-out the technology driven industries. That's the problem with capitalism, you have duplicated efforts competing for your dollar. It's the price we have chosen to pay for freedom to choose despite the fact that cell phone companies could have been forced to build common infrastructure resulting in much better deployment today but the government was hands off and that's what you get. Would we be better off if they had? I have no idea but its the same story for batteries. The only difference is that a new battery standard could be developed today while forming a cell standard would be nearly impossible.
Perhaps because that is irrelevant to the case at hand. Even if a password is IP which its not since a password is used for identification and authorization and thus would need to changed immediately after the person is fired he was still under no legal obligation to expose passwords to systems that he protects.
The whole case is stupid and I haven't heard anything that would be deemed criminal, violation of contracts sure are possible but that doesn't land you in jail. Once a company fires an individual that individual is under no obligation to the company. Even non-compete clauses don't hold up in court for this very reason. The city should have sued him for the information if they thought he had some obligation, not thrown him in jail and there were no laws broken unless of course he did access their systems after he was terminated.
This case puts a lot of sysadmins in danger and that includes myself. I don't give passwords to my boss, I'm not required to nor would he ask for passwords since there is a blanket company policy of never give out a password. It's not needed for anything. When the owner comes up and says this guy needs access to everything I have access to he doesn't get my password, he gets his own logon with access to all the same things that I have. Asking for passwords is asinine.
Everything management did and even admitted shows just has incompetent they were, they failed to maintain an access management system that would survive the bus test. If he had been hit by a bus they'd be in the same situation except without the passwords even to this day. Then asking him for the passwords in front of a large number of people all of whom are not authorized to have the passwords and you land yourself in a situation where Childs acted in the way that most security conscious admins would. Passwords are not IP, I have no idea how you came up with that ridiculous notion. Do you understand that information has to be copyrighted for it to be IP? There are only a very few circumstances in which copyright is automatic and this wouldn't qualify since a public works project doesn't retain any IP since it's by definition public.
Except that you're complete wrong on all counts given that both events were scheduled. Eopen was supposed to end and Microsoft gave all of us plenty of notice of this. The new site was working for a while but is down for scheduled maintenance. This isn't near as bad as you're making it out to be. It's amazing how people will look for even non-existent reasons to bash MS when there are so many legit reasons.
Measure the power of a modern core switch at half load versus full load. The difference is minimal especially once you factor in reduced load combined with over-subscription by the ISPs to get the load back up. Sorry, this is not a real issue and you shouldn't resort to name calling as it doesn't help your position any.
Really? I had a 768k/384k connection in rural Vermont, in a town of less than 1000 people and that was back in 1997. The fact is, we gave them billions of dollars to upgrade their infrastructure and they used the money inappropriately and now they have the nerve to complain that they can't meet demand? No sympathy for ATT thats for sure. There was plenty of spare money, they chose to spend our tax dollars unwisely and the complete lack of oversight in the money we gave them allowed it all to happen.
You left out the fact that the cost of electricity for the ISP and the cost of labor is pretty much static whether you're just using your connection for email or doing full on HD broadcasts. The issue is how they handle their peering arrangements, when you cross out of your local ISP's network it starts to cost them money. In large providers this peering doesn't cost as there is a reciprocity agreement in place. The problem is that they are unwilling to arrangement their networks appropriately with some providers offloading traffic to other providers so that they don't have to build out as much of their own infrastructure. This is has caused a lot of friction between large providers and is not the fault of customers downloading too much content.
While I respect your opinion, modern history isn't on your side. Bush cut taxes and jobs still went overseas by the millions and we ended up here. I'll grant that Reagan set it all in motion though and that Bush Sr, Clinton, and Bush Jr only extended the poor policy decisions.
Trickle down economics works on small scales where employers and employees actually know each other. I see this problem only getting worse as so far nothing is being done to radically change how we behave. The only solution to the crisis is less spending, not more! This of course has it problems as it will indeed depress the economy but it is the only way to get back on track fiscally.
That is only stupid because of stupid laws that make the action stupid. It is perfectly reasonable to want to film a birthday party and showing a snippet from the movie would be a way to establish context, just like when you're filming your friends at a concert, you'll point the camera at the stage to show the artist to establish where you were on that occasion.
Since she clearly didn't even try to film the whole thing her intent was clear and intent matters for every other crime out there except for this.
You are instantly many hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for getting caught filming in theater. That amounts for most of us, far more than three years of punishment and indeed for most far more than even 15 years which covers the majority of violent crimes out there.
Holy crap man, thanks for reminding me about Crossfire, I just went and watched it again. It's hilarious to see how they just don't get it that he's not a journalist.
I think you have a point, but I also think its because he comes from a comedy background where blunt honesty is pretty common.
You think ATT is any better? What do you do when you have to pick between Company A that will abuse you, Company B that will abuse you, or Company C that will abuse you? You get modern America! We did it! Yay! I have the opposite problem you do, at one of my event sites all I can get is ATT DSL which got slower after they bought out SBC. Comcast needs to extend their cable 1000 feet and I can have cable Internet at my site instead of 3meg DSL! Course Comcast cable sucks there too at something like 15meg which is frustrating since I live in AZ where I can get 50meg residential cable. Quite annoying!
You cannot prove a negative so the an inconclusive test shows there is no evidence in support of the hypothesis that cell phones cause cancer. There is no evidence for it, that is all they are saying. They acknowledge the weaknesses of their study and extrapolate their conclusion based on the evidence. This is good science for once!
I'm referring to the beginning of the Bush Jr first term. Then O-Reilly wasn't so cracked out and no one really knew about Glenn Beck.
I definitely agree with you about Fark though! I don't think CNN is dishonest, they are merely becoming irrelevant. Reporting on SNL and the Daily Show and airing every user contributed snippet they can find makes people think of them less and less as a news agency. Of course CNN Headline news isn't quite as bad.
Sorry, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater because it could potentially harm a large number of people. I think it is fair to say that a channel portraying itself as a News agency has to be held to a higher standard than a channel such as Comedy Central which clearly states that their news is fake. In many ways its false advertising but those laws don't apply to the press when really they should. The truth is not subjective and disseminating false information I believe does harm a population especially when you can disseminate it to millions.
While I agree that you should never trust 100% any one entity I also understand that the vast majority of the country doesn't want to try that hard to get news so they end up watching MSNBC if they are Democrat or Fox if they are Republican. After having watched both I can saw however that Fox actively works to distort reality such as using footage of older rallies with larger crowds and the outright lying about Jon Stewart's stance towards global warming. Some of their actions are truly atrocious and damaging to the political climate. Debate about issues is healthy but Fox isn't promoting discussion, they are actively promoting an agenda. If they didn't call themselves a news network no one would have a problem with this.
The ole expression absolute power corrupts absolutely has always been and will always be true. It is interesting to see Obama mimicking Bush on so many level and watching republicans blast him for it. That's why I say, never grant a power to the government unless you're willing for people that disagree with you to wield the power. This is why the back and forth has been healthy in the past. Now, there is no much instant access to information that it's hard for a government to do a proper cover-up anymore. People that have always been stupid are finally getting thrust into the limelight and surprise surprise, they don't like it! It's like those republicans that voted against an amendment that would give more rights to rape victims of multi-national companies that promote hostile work environments overseas. They were surprised that people wouldn't like them supporting rapist! Then of course they are looking for someone to blame. At least the democratic party is fragmented as always so they don't wield as much power in the majority as the republicans did when they were a majority.
I think the political climate is finally shifting with people being properly annoyed with both parties. A healthy system it would be if we had 5 or 6 parties or more! Course I'd like to get rid of political parties altogether but I understand that will never happen.
Isn't this a sad state of affairs when Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are considered honest media? JS even called out Obama for his speech echoing that of one Bush made for the troop surge. I've been trying to watch more of the other networks lately because I stopped for so long, I wanted to see how they'd improved. MSNBC is pretty much the same as it has ever been although they seem to support the Daily Show. Fox has pretty much been doin a nose dive since they were created. Remember when O'Reilly was watchable? Certainly not the case anymore when you have him blatantly asking people to ignore the constitution to state how they really feel public policy should be. They of course do everything in their power to discredit the Daily Show. Then there's CNN, well, they are a shadow of their former selves, the CNN story is the truly sad one as they used to be great! They seem neutral to the Daily Show but the mere fact that all three report on the Daily Show and even go so far as editing clips to make it look like JS is saying something completely different, thank you Fox News, this is what is truly very sad! The show that advertises itself as fake news is considered more legitimate than all the major outlets! Thankfully there are other sources for the rest of us, I'll try again in another year or so to see if there have been anymore changes in TV news. I don't hold out much hope though.
The problem is that any documentation that does get written gets outdated very quickly. This compounds the problem since people will be using older versions of software and only find recent documentation or people will be using new software and only finding old documentation. This leaves the user the necessity of picking which parts are relevant from sources based on knowledge that there is no easy way to gain without experience. For instance, installing Oracle 11g on a Xen hosted VM. As long as you pick a distro with a PV kernel in the installer you're pretty good to go, otherwise you've got a lot of work ahead of ya! Should have seen how long it took me to get Ubuntu running in a VM. Ended up having to steal a Debian kernel since Ubuntu stopped supporting Xen for a while. I hear it will be back soon though when they catch up to the latest kernel that Ubuntu is running.
That is a good point, I never even thought of that as I naturally get apps from the repository once a page tells me what app I need. I just did it naturally because I always prefer to install something that will receive updates for any vulnerabilities or bug fixes. I imagine a lot of people wouldn't know to do that though. Of course there are a number of times I have to get apps outside the repository still. I can install phpMyAdmin, Asterisk, but not FreePBX for instance. Talking more specifically about Ubuntu there and I understand why after install FreePBX manually on it. Quite the pain in the arse!
Of course the main reason that it's a pain is because there is more than one way to do it so the documentation that does exist is fragmented leaving the user the exercise of figuring out what is relevant from which how-to since together they probably have all the info you need. The flexibility of the Linux environment is what causes a lot of this. If there was only one way to do it then some people wouldn't be able to do it depending on their environments. Because of this I expect usability to lag behind.
I think the real problem is the development pace of any Linux distro and the sheer number of variables there are. Everytime a library gets updated it could have dramatic ramifications for multiple apps even affecting how the apps have to be called thus requiring an update to documentation unrelated to the development of the specific tool.
There needs to be a centralized repository for all projects with dependency changes tracked so project authors can know when documentation needs to be updated. This is by no means an easy proposition so late in the game. This project would have to cross distributions. Different distros use the same tools, they generally just use different versions. This all of course would have to be standardized much like the BSD world enjoys.
If FreeBSD supported as much hardware as the Linux world I would be over there.