In the USofA, it is very easy for a corporation (you know, our overlords) to file a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP). They have been used, for example, to punish those who "outed" falsely-labeled "organic" produce and protect at least one slaughterhouse from charges of animal cruelty (a bit wierd, but think of the difference between the "humane" killing methods of kosher and Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle") and poor sanitation.
Neither of the NetBSD 6.1.5 torrents I'm seeding (for the last several days) is "pirated". Torrents are an accepted distribution practice for a wide range of software.
IBM had used Micropolis drives back when 5MB was a common size. They insisted that Micropolis buy new production equipment to make the 40s in enough quantity to supply the projected PC demand, then IBM chose another vendor, leaving Micropolis with a lot of production capacity for which to pay, and no customer. Bye-Bye, Micropolis.
Now you not only have to concern yourself with the personal sanitary habits of those with whom you shake hands, but whether they've "cleaned you out", as well.
The test pilots/engineers didn't risk life and limb to make more money for Richard Branson. Michael Alsbury died and Peter Siebold was injured in a regretable accident doing what THEY wanted to do. THEY got to try flying to space, and, even if VG never gets to the point of vacuuming money from those looking for a thrill and wealthy enough to pay Branon for it, the crew got to make the trip, knowing that, as with many ambitious enterprises, sometimes the bear gets you.
Are the jedists a large enough group to start killing each other over the "Old Testament" (episodes 4, 5, 6) vs. "New Testament" (episodes 1, 2, 3, with the midichlorians)?
I have a stack of Loki games. All but the last two were paid full price (those were during the shutdown). The problem was the delay. Shelf life of most games is shorter than the porting delay. Of course, now the libraries needed by the games are incredibly obsolete, although LD_LIBRARY_PATH helps.
Being wildly creatvie is, however, still discouraged. The men (in the infantry), vehicle commanders, wingmen (in the air) must have some idea what you're going to do, or just you trip over, or kill, each other. Don't know where you're from, but think Amercan football: the defence is typically the more "creative" side of the line of scrimmage; but there are still "plays" (coverage for pass receivers, stunts in the line, blitzes by linebackers and/or defensive backs); yes, it is necessary to adapt to what the offeense is trying to do, quickly and on-the-fly, but missing your assignment while being overly creative more often than not results in good things for the offence.
I've been using Linux for a VERY long time (like AMD K5 PR100 long), and have done kernel development at a few jobs over the years, and have a few minor edits in the repository. I've always appreciated Linus' forthrightness. He's had some strong differences with equally competent developers over the years, but in both the LKML and private correspondence, those comments and disagreements have been upfront and honest. When one of my edits was sent back for rework, the comments were not only honest, but constructive, and exposure to Linus' and his senior collaborators' comments have made me a better developer.
I know it sounds a bit "fanboy", but Linus isn't the only project "owner" out there I really respect, he's just the subject of this thread.
RFTA (I know, I know), but this is NOT about adding competition, it is about Comcast taking over the current Charter franchise, giving Comcast the monopoly on cable service.
As an embedded architect/programmer, I deal with this all of the time. You have to design for the platform, not what you fantasize about having. Doing the dev work on a dual-4-core-hyperthreaded box with 48 GBytes of memory, then whining that the CPU/GPU/memory space/... isn't enough is just exposing your stupidity. Onbce had a developer build and test a database on his quad-core Apple-thingy, then whine to management that the hardware engineers and materials people had just not done their job, when, even before he was on the project, the product had a 1 GHz single-core PowerPC-derived SoC and 256 MBytes of DRAM (more or less, an Apple G4-equivalent).
It's not that you don't take chances, but that you recognise the dangers and take a few precautions. Not "going down" on the woman you just picked up at the bar might save you a case of HIV (Magic Johnson, for example). Doesn't mean you can't have some fun together, but use condoms, for pity's sake.
Don't download "cute" crapware. Don't visit sites Firefox and its plugins warn you are attack sites. Don't blindly give away your bank account info (at least in the Corporate States of America, where you have no protection). For example, I have a bank account specifically for PayPal (no credit card for them), and I keep in it just enough to cover my purchases/donations. No glitch, stolen credentials,... are going to clean out my bank account (no debit card, either). I keep a very low credit limit card for Internet purchases. The theater tickets someone tried to purchase in London cost more than that and triggered a block.
I do embedded development, and most of those have no GUI or X server. I can use VTs to keep VIm sessions open on a few (yes, I know VIm supports multiple files/buffers, but VT switching is easier), a VT for compilation/test, and, with GPM, copy/paste between them.
I see these silly ads on TV, but I think that anyone smart enough to be a really good engineer/programmer, can also see that it's a dead-end job. The corprate execs are going to hire CHEAP, period, whether in the USA, imports, or offshore.
IMO, as soon as those photos are on ANY Inernet-facing device ('phone, WiFi-equipped camera, "cloud",...) they are already published. You want to keep some private "momentos", take them on a non-WiFi camera, or better yet, film, and store the data in a lockbox, sharing it only to also not-Internet-connected devices.
If it is accessable from the 'net, as all smart cameras, in-home on-line cameras, and the cloud are known to be, then you have already published them to the world.
Slashdot Mirror
They don't have to "win". The legal fees will break most individuals in a contest against a corporation.
In the USofA, it is very easy for a corporation (you know, our overlords) to file a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP). They have been used, for example, to punish those who "outed" falsely-labeled "organic" produce and protect at least one slaughterhouse from charges of animal cruelty (a bit wierd, but think of the difference between the "humane" killing methods of kosher and Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle") and poor sanitation.
Neither of the NetBSD 6.1.5 torrents I'm seeding (for the last several days) is "pirated". Torrents are an accepted distribution practice for a wide range of software.
IBM had used Micropolis drives back when 5MB was a common size. They insisted that Micropolis buy new production equipment to make the 40s in enough quantity to supply the projected PC demand, then IBM chose another vendor, leaving Micropolis with a lot of production capacity for which to pay, and no customer. Bye-Bye, Micropolis.
where the AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, ... warlords are protecting their turf and blocking access by rural Americans?
Dell U2412M
Within the range of older video cards, although it has to scale the Ouya.
I've experienced supersaturated air in the US Southeast (not enough dust, ... for the moisture to condense).
How is blowing on money going to raise the ambient humidity in a way to which the bills could respond?
An NFC wristwatch could access the chips; it's not like NFC is supposed to be secure.
Now you not only have to concern yourself with the personal sanitary habits of those with whom you shake hands, but whether they've "cleaned you out", as well.
Below the UI, Windows really does understand '/' as a path separator, or, at least, it did when I used to write drivers and services for it.
The test pilots/engineers didn't risk life and limb to make more money for Richard Branson. Michael Alsbury died and Peter Siebold was injured in a regretable accident doing what THEY wanted to do. THEY got to try flying to space, and, even if VG never gets to the point of vacuuming money from those looking for a thrill and wealthy enough to pay Branon for it, the crew got to make the trip, knowing that, as with many ambitious enterprises, sometimes the bear gets you.
Are the jedists a large enough group to start killing each other over the "Old Testament" (episodes 4, 5, 6) vs. "New Testament" (episodes 1, 2, 3, with the midichlorians)?
I have a stack of Loki games. All but the last two were paid full price (those were during the shutdown). The problem was the delay. Shelf life of most games is shorter than the porting delay. Of course, now the libraries needed by the games are incredibly obsolete, although LD_LIBRARY_PATH helps.
Being wildly creatvie is, however, still discouraged. The men (in the infantry), vehicle commanders, wingmen (in the air) must have some idea what you're going to do, or just you trip over, or kill, each other. Don't know where you're from, but think Amercan football: the defence is typically the more "creative" side of the line of scrimmage; but there are still "plays" (coverage for pass receivers, stunts in the line, blitzes by linebackers and/or defensive backs); yes, it is necessary to adapt to what the offeense is trying to do, quickly and on-the-fly, but missing your assignment while being overly creative more often than not results in good things for the offence.
I've been using Linux for a VERY long time (like AMD K5 PR100 long), and have done kernel development at a few jobs over the years, and have a few minor edits in the repository. I've always appreciated Linus' forthrightness. He's had some strong differences with equally competent developers over the years, but in both the LKML and private correspondence, those comments and disagreements have been upfront and honest. When one of my edits was sent back for rework, the comments were not only honest, but constructive, and exposure to Linus' and his senior collaborators' comments have made me a better developer.
I know it sounds a bit "fanboy", but Linus isn't the only project "owner" out there I really respect, he's just the subject of this thread.
RFTA (I know, I know), but this is NOT about adding competition, it is about Comcast taking over the current Charter franchise, giving Comcast the monopoly on cable service.
As an embedded architect/programmer, I deal with this all of the time. You have to design for the platform, not what you fantasize about having. Doing the dev work on a dual-4-core-hyperthreaded box with 48 GBytes of memory, then whining that the CPU/GPU/memory space/... isn't enough is just exposing your stupidity. Onbce had a developer build and test a database on his quad-core Apple-thingy, then whine to management that the hardware engineers and materials people had just not done their job, when, even before he was on the project, the product had a 1 GHz single-core PowerPC-derived SoC and 256 MBytes of DRAM (more or less, an Apple G4-equivalent).
It's not that you don't take chances, but that you recognise the dangers and take a few precautions. Not "going down" on the woman you just picked up at the bar might save you a case of HIV (Magic Johnson, for example). Doesn't mean you can't have some fun together, but use condoms, for pity's sake.
Don't download "cute" crapware. Don't visit sites Firefox and its plugins warn you are attack sites. Don't blindly give away your bank account info (at least in the Corporate States of America, where you have no protection). For example, I have a bank account specifically for PayPal (no credit card for them), and I keep in it just enough to cover my purchases/donations. No glitch, stolen credentials, ... are going to clean out my bank account (no debit card, either). I keep a very low credit limit card for Internet purchases. The theater tickets someone tried to purchase in London cost more than that and triggered a block.
There's a gift, which may be ongoing, but it has a nasty payload.
Never had either an STD or computer malware.
Paranoia is your friend, 'cause they ARE out to get you.
I do embedded development, and most of those have no GUI or X server. I can use VTs to keep VIm sessions open on a few (yes, I know VIm supports multiple files/buffers, but VT switching is easier), a VT for compilation/test, and, with GPM, copy/paste between them.
I see these silly ads on TV, but I think that anyone smart enough to be a really good engineer/programmer, can also see that it's a dead-end job. The corprate execs are going to hire CHEAP, period, whether in the USA, imports, or offshore.
Take your math skills and get into finance.
IMO, as soon as those photos are on ANY Inernet-facing device ('phone, WiFi-equipped camera, "cloud", ...) they are already published. You want to keep some private "momentos", take them on a non-WiFi camera, or better yet, film, and store the data in a lockbox, sharing it only to also not-Internet-connected devices.
If it is accessable from the 'net, as all smart cameras, in-home on-line cameras, and the cloud are known to be, then you have already published them to the world.
systemd will fix that for you, with the added "feature" of parsing text
You hear the EMP "ringing" YOUR hull.
I recognized the quote, but thank you. I was looking for the series.