Decades of tricks and tweaking to deal with rotational latency and head movement have virtually zero application in SSDs.
Yes, that happened when we switched from drums and tape to hard drives. Then hard drives seeks became (relatively) as slow as tapes were. Wait and see, we may have a few years of bliss, but in ten years flash will have seek latency -- RAM does already.
Civil engineers need to know a bunch of mathematics in order to build bridges. Software engineers need to know a lot of mathematics in order to make software. That doesn't mean that civil engineers are physicists or that software engineers are computer scientists.
i.e. CS programs producing students who know loads and loads of theory and can't write a damn line of actual code.
That's because CS programs are misnamed. Most coding should be done by engineers, not scientists. A Master in Physics doesn't necessarily qualify you to build bridges either.
Apparently you don't think that an apolitical body having a monopoly on introducing new legislation is a problem. I don't see how I can elaborate more on that, it seems self-evident to me.
Anyway, I don't think we're ready for the EU at all, but there isn't much that can be done about that right now. All we can do is trying to keep it as powerless as possible, and hope that the inevitable civil war (every union has one, sooner or later) won't be too bloody.
The commission is completely unelected. Part of their rules of conduct is to NOT act with any favour towards those who picked them. The commission isn't a political body, but it has extensive political powers, including being the only body who can actually propose new laws.
The government isn't elected directly in most European countries, but parliament gets to pick the prime minister, and they can vote them out again. In contrast, the European parliament is a squabbling mess who doesn't accomplish anything. They could in theory dissolve the commission, but it didn't happen even when the commission became so obviously corrupt that it had to step down.
If the commission was abolished, I'd have fewer reservations about the EU. I still don't believe that you can actually have a well-functioning democracy the size of EU, and India and USA don't particularly challenge that belief.
That's one of the best features of the Windows command-line - being able to use networked resources the same as local files, completely transparently.
The advantage is that you don't have to mount the file systems before you access them. In Windows that is only possible for CIFS; you can't cd http://www.gnu.org/ in Windows. With automount you can do exactly the same for CIFS and NFS in Linux, with the same limitations. The new filesystem abstraction libraries make it possible to go much further than that.
I wish them the best, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Install F10. I'm not sure why you'd want to switch between multiple X sessions though, but with kernel mode switching, it works great. (Except the ATI driver is horribly broken)
Why deuterium? It's perfectly possible to have a fusion power plant running on regular hydrogen. In fact, a rather large one is placed in the Earth's neighbourhood. It could use a bit more shielding, but other than that it seems to perform great.
And what do you think will happen to that engineer if and when it is found?
Nothing. In engineering, it seems most easter eggs are inserted with the approval of management. They're especially popular in the electronics industry, but they exist elsewhere too.
In some cases they can be useful in litigation about illegal copying.
Try looking up the footage from back then, a library should be able to help you. The journalists were much closer to the actual combat.
All you hear today is "24 insurgents killed in some-village". Then you hear perhaps a bit of debate about whether those were civilians, but it's not like "20 out of insurgents killed 2 months ago were actually civilians" is going to interest anyone.
I'm pretty sure that the same organizations would be in the chain for DNSSEC.
True, but at least the security is only as bad as that of one particular company. With regular TLS the security is as bad as that of the worst company.
From that moment forward using military troops in Iraq became the wrong approach. You don't use the Army as a police force. Any information derived from soldiers misused as policemen is irrelevent.
One of the problems of the US military is exactly the lack of a military force trained in policing occupied land and other areas of unrest. It is possible to create such a force; in fact most other Western nations have them.
War should be as brutal and as ugly as possible. That way we would have to deeply consider if war is the answer to the situation.
That doesn't work when the brutality of war doesn't get shown to most of the people in one faction of the war.
This happens to be the case in the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The reporting which caused the public backlash against the war in Vietnam simply doesn't exist in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Whereas with existing schemes like HTTPS, the client simply caches the acquired symmetric keys as needed.
The way it gets the public key of the site today is ridiculously insecure. It trusts a bunch of organizations, several of which have proven to be completely untrustworthy.
You can used self-signed keys, but then the security is basically non-existent. There is no GPG-like system for the web.
It all seems very specious to me, replacing an established address verification system with a less functional one.
If you turn off DNSSEC in your resolver, nothing changed. I don't see how it can be less functional then.
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Decades of tricks and tweaking to deal with rotational latency and head movement have virtually zero application in SSDs.
Yes, that happened when we switched from drums and tape to hard drives. Then hard drives seeks became (relatively) as slow as tapes were. Wait and see, we may have a few years of bliss, but in ten years flash will have seek latency -- RAM does already.
VSC isn't perfect for sure, but how exactly do you take a _consistent_ snapshot with LVM? Snap and pray?
If your disk isn't consistent at all times, how do you deal with crashes? Restore from backup?
Or if ext4 doesn't need an occasional fsck like ext3 does?
I haven't fsck'd the ext3 on my laptop since it was installed, 3 years ago.
Civil engineers need to know a bunch of mathematics in order to build bridges. Software engineers need to know a lot of mathematics in order to make software. That doesn't mean that civil engineers are physicists or that software engineers are computer scientists.
i.e. CS programs producing students who know loads and loads of theory and can't write a damn line of actual code.
That's because CS programs are misnamed. Most coding should be done by engineers, not scientists. A Master in Physics doesn't necessarily qualify you to build bridges either.
Apparently you don't think that an apolitical body having a monopoly on introducing new legislation is a problem. I don't see how I can elaborate more on that, it seems self-evident to me.
Anyway, I don't think we're ready for the EU at all, but there isn't much that can be done about that right now. All we can do is trying to keep it as powerless as possible, and hope that the inevitable civil war (every union has one, sooner or later) won't be too bloody.
The commission is completely unelected. Part of their rules of conduct is to NOT act with any favour towards those who picked them. The commission isn't a political body, but it has extensive political powers, including being the only body who can actually propose new laws.
The government isn't elected directly in most European countries, but parliament gets to pick the prime minister, and they can vote them out again. In contrast, the European parliament is a squabbling mess who doesn't accomplish anything. They could in theory dissolve the commission, but it didn't happen even when the commission became so obviously corrupt that it had to step down.
If the commission was abolished, I'd have fewer reservations about the EU. I still don't believe that you can actually have a well-functioning democracy the size of EU, and India and USA don't particularly challenge that belief.
Sorry I'm wrong. The commission is like that, the council is the way you described it.
There are problems for sure, such as that the council is not appointed as a separate body, but it consists of the member states governments
The council isn't part of the member states governments. It is simply a collection of unelected officials without accountability. I.e. an oligarchy.
Er. You think a kernel API is the same thing as a versioning system...?
No, but the original poster just asked for feature parity with MacOS.
That's one of the best features of the Windows command-line - being able to use networked resources the same as local files, completely transparently.
The advantage is that you don't have to mount the file systems before you access them. In Windows that is only possible for CIFS; you can't cd http://www.gnu.org/ in Windows. With automount you can do exactly the same for CIFS and NFS in Linux, with the same limitations. The new filesystem abstraction libraries make it possible to go much further than that.
I wish them the best, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Install F10. I'm not sure why you'd want to switch between multiple X sessions though, but with kernel mode switching, it works great. (Except the ATI driver is horribly broken)
Those are distribution specific, and sane distributions have had them fixed for years.
An example would be that a file should be able to keep a list of all the dates it was accessed.
Fixed already. Extra attributes have been available for a long time. Feel free to use them.
Root is God.
Fixed. SELinux.
Why not extend this to networking resources ('cd http://www.gnu.org/ [gnu.org] would be cool ).
Hard to do in kernel space. We're getting there in user space.
Fedora is fixing this. This has caused quite a flame war on the mailing lists, but at least Fedora plods on anyway.
Why deuterium? It's perfectly possible to have a fusion power plant running on regular hydrogen. In fact, a rather large one is placed in the Earth's neighbourhood. It could use a bit more shielding, but other than that it seems to perform great.
And what do you think will happen to that engineer if and when it is found?
Nothing. In engineering, it seems most easter eggs are inserted with the approval of management. They're especially popular in the electronics industry, but they exist elsewhere too.
In some cases they can be useful in litigation about illegal copying.
Do civil or mechanical engineers leave easter eggs?
The fact that you can't find them doesn't mean they aren't there.
... is hydrogen an energy source or a way of storing energy?
Depends whether you have a working fusion power plant which runs on regular hydrogen...
I remember when HP was run by Engineers, not the marketing and legal department.
They still are, but they changed name to Agilent.
I guess somebody forgot to tell that to CNN.
Try looking up the footage from back then, a library should be able to help you. The journalists were much closer to the actual combat.
All you hear today is "24 insurgents killed in some-village". Then you hear perhaps a bit of debate about whether those were civilians, but it's not like "20 out of insurgents killed 2 months ago were actually civilians" is going to interest anyone.
I'm pretty sure that the same organizations would be in the chain for DNSSEC.
True, but at least the security is only as bad as that of one particular company. With regular TLS the security is as bad as that of the worst company.
From that moment forward using military troops in Iraq became the wrong approach. You don't use the Army as a police force. Any information derived from soldiers misused as policemen is irrelevent.
One of the problems of the US military is exactly the lack of a military force trained in policing occupied land and other areas of unrest. It is possible to create such a force; in fact most other Western nations have them.
War should be as brutal and as ugly as possible. That way we would have to deeply consider if war is the answer to the situation.
That doesn't work when the brutality of war doesn't get shown to most of the people in one faction of the war.
This happens to be the case in the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The reporting which caused the public backlash against the war in Vietnam simply doesn't exist in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Whereas with existing schemes like HTTPS, the client simply caches the acquired symmetric keys as needed.
The way it gets the public key of the site today is ridiculously insecure. It trusts a bunch of organizations, several of which have proven to be completely untrustworthy.
You can used self-signed keys, but then the security is basically non-existent. There is no GPG-like system for the web.
It all seems very specious to me, replacing an established address verification system with a less functional one.
If you turn off DNSSEC in your resolver, nothing changed. I don't see how it can be less functional then.