I see plenty of "business people" pull out a tablet and use it to make notes during meetings. The fact that it's not ergonomic doesn't matter since all they care about is being hip or something. Having your MS project handy on your tab is enough argument for any project manager to warrant it alone. Since the employer is picking up the tab, a $10 monthly fee for photoshop (not a $1000 price for a static license) isn't a problem either, if they need it for the job. People have allowed ergonomics to go die in a corner since someone thought that laptops would be cheaper than desk top computers for the employer, there is no reason tablets shouldn't replace those laptops either. The decision makers don't care about productivity anymore, they just think that everyone uses computers in the exact same way they do themselves and vendors only advertise shiny new "smaller is better" computers so the sheeple tend to want them as well. You may still want that big dual desktop 30" screen and a computer that will run that real estate effectively, but you're never going to get it since it's not "flexible" enough.
There are large binary blobs in your phone that hold the firmware for the baseband processor and other chips. Rooting the phone will give you some form of control over the OS running the user interface, but not the rest. It is probably trivial for attackers to find a backdoor in one of the binary blobs, once they start looking for it. It may be restricted to that model phone and that version of the binary blob, but chances are, that with just a few actual backdoors, implementations for most of the smart phones can be made. Don't trust your phone any more rooted than non-rooted, it's still mostly unknown territory for you even if you have it rooted.
The NSA may be a big problem, but it's hardly the only threat to people looking at data they have nothing to do with. How many admins have access to large troves of user data they have nothing to do with, that would make good money if sold to certain parties? How many databases hold data that can't be effectively shielded with more than a single layer from people that should only have access to parts of it? Stop fretting about the NSA in this context, they are only one of many threats this problem tries to solve.
Users are stupid, automated generators even more. You can't expect people to optimize queries themselves, which is why there is an optimizer in the code. If it brutally fails on something it is supposed to optimize, it's a bug.
Why would Monty do it again? He's spending years of his life and a lot of his money to get MariaDB up and going. The risk he will be out of more money, not even counting his time than he'll ever get back is pretty high. For Oracle, MariaDB wouldn't be much of a purchase. They will have to painfully merge the difference in codebase, the developers and customers will all run away instantly and all they'll have left is the diffs. Any other company that wants an RDBMS will gain more from purchasing MariaDB than Oracle. So even if MariaDB gets sold, the most unlikely new owner would be Oracle.
The reason we have computers is to help us do complicated stuff. If you want the user to solve all the hard work, you're going to be searching hard to find the users that have the skills to use something. I believe it's the task of the computer (programmer) to make the most stupid users still get their results without breaking anything. It takes away "natural selection", sure, but that's what we humans have been doing since we exist as a species.
Oracle has kept their testing suite and results closed source and secret. This is one of the reasons why MariaDB decided to do a cold hard fork and not look back. They can't possibly promise compatibility with Oracle since the specs are closed, effectively making the project closed. Assuming that Oracle tests things at all is purely speculation. If anything, regressions mentioned in other comments here suggest they don't do a very thorough job at all and their test suites only include new features and "old" tests, no regressions of bugs that got solved since they closed the testing specs.
How is MariaDB a small project and MySQL not? They both share roughly the same codebase and history. MariaDB has paid developers working on it, maybe even more than Oracle has on MySQL. For MariaDB, paying customers are probably more important than for Oracle, since Oracle can afford to lose money on this for a much longer time before they go bankrupt than MariaDB. If anything, the argument about "spending money on something only if it gives an immediate profit" applies way more to MariaDB than to Oracle.
You can artificially put vitamin A in (expensive, copyrighted) rice, but you won't fix the poverty that is the cause of all this. Once these people will (maybe, if they can afford it) have access to rice with vitamin A in it, the next deficiency will kill the "new" survivors. Fix their poverty, not their lack of vitamin A in their food. They will take care of the vitamin A without having to resort to GMO rice. Spending money on this sort of food modification won't pay for anyone but the copyright holders. It's not even about the "risks" of GMO, it's about the futility of trying to solve poverty with it.
I'm sorry, but there are lots of mobile business users that don't know dick about this. These people will call their companies help desk to get the problem sorted.
I wouldn't let anyone in to my office network without a VPN. No that VPN got blocked. Any provider that generates extra work for me or my department, will be on the list of "too bloody expensive" and will lose my business. My current employer happens to have a few hundred people in such a contract and often customers have similar or higher numbers. This will cost the providers that have such silly blocks to lose business customers of all sorts and sizes.
Seriously, the NSA will help protect you from anyone but themselves. As long as the NSA has nothing to do on your box, they will do their utmost to prevent foreign intelligence, hackers and other mischievous individuals gaining entrance to the average Linux distribution. Even if they do have something to do on your box, they'll still try to keep others out. Now if you want to hide your stuff from the NSA, you will have to do a bit more than just run an up to date linux distribution. It doesn't really matter what you run, they will probably have researched it, or it will be so small that it will be hard to find useful applications for it....
By permanently removing people from the voting process, you are permanently removing them from the system that makes the laws. Try convincing someone he has to abide a law that is part of a system that cast him out. It's not their law any more, so why should they bother? You basically take away an important part of being a citizen for these people, you can't really expect them to behave like one if you do. Let them pay their debt to society and then let them carry on with their lives. Sure, probation time may be a period where you keep them from voting, but give their right to vote back once they served their time and paid their fines.
Paying someone an insane amount of money to do this would make this person easy to spot. How much kernel developers do you know have three houses, a private plane and a collection of racing cars? You can't pay them money without them being able to spend it.
A way more likely scenario would be to set them up for something criminal and then make them "an offer they can't refuse". It would be way cheaper and they would hold control over this person for the rest of their lives, not until they spent all the money.
Are you saying that people should be able to speak French (New Orleans area) and Spanish (most of Florida and south California) without problems? As far as I'm aware, the Government exclusively communicates in English and Spanish translations are offered merely as a courtesy. The only moment you will get "official" support for non English languages is in court, where you can have a translator translate the English that is spoken in court from and to your native language.
Most Americans don't speak or write English very well. The difference with the Chinese is, that they don't master any other language at all, while the Chinese often speak at least on other language fluently.
Your democratic representative should fight for uncapped internet at decent prices. If there is some form of a monopoly going on, there should be a price cap on how much an ISP is allowed to ask and what the minimal service for that price should be. That may sound communist, but monopolies have nothing to do with free market. If you want a market economy, you need the government to stimulate innovation and competition, so they should encourage your ISP to come up with ways to give you a better service and/or price if there is no "natural" competition for them.
The permit system is supposed to control the manner in which they are shooting up in the air. It's all perfectly legal and controlled if we set up a permit system, just like with firearms in general.
Yes, in the USA there are plenty of regulations. In the USA, they usually are pretty effective. However, the energy plant industry is not the only industry working with materials that emit nuclear radiation. Most large scrap merchants actually have Geiger counters set up to pick out radio active materials coming in on their yards permanently. Scrap gets moved all over the planet and on a global scale, dozens of "misplaced" items get found yearly that have a radiation dose that is actually dangerous to people that get near it for a few hours or more.
Having perfect regulations is only part of the solution. The other part is getting all humans involved to actually follow the regulations in the entire chain. People make mistakes and bend the rules because it's less work if you don't do all those checks. Most often, this does not lead to things going wrong, but we all know how publicly published incidents at nuclear reactors happen. The same applies for waste handling and disposal. Apart from that, once you get to countries and/or individuals that don't really have all that much of a morale, they may choose to knowingly mess with the paperwork and sell radioactive scrap as normal steel, once they shred it to little bits and "diluted" it with non-radio active materials. There's a good reason for those geiger tellers at scrap merchants, it's a well known trick and it happens often enough to warrant this sort of safeguards.
Once you start browsing the web site for these cubes, it's surprisingly shallow. There is no real information, the forum has a total of 6 posts and the wiki is empty. If you want to find out what video codecs are supported, or what linux distributions are ported to this device, your search will turn up nothing.
This may all change, but once you're getting your product up on sites like SlashDot, you really should have things like this taken care of. Right now it has a vaporware scent all over it and it may just be the next cheap dealextreme android HTPC device that comes with a load of half functioning applications and no way to get it fixed.
So if the SLS is the one thing killing NASA, don't do it. I wouldn't have the slightest idea what the SLS is (redaction?) but it sounds like a no-brainer to me.
By the time they lost the edge with symbian, they were losing money on smart phones. They tried several things before eventually ending up using only windows. The real problem was that they couldn't get back in the black fast enough and they simply didn't have the funds left to continue their own development and try to reach profit again. Maybe they were selling hand sets at a higher price than it costed to produce them, but the development costs were way higher than the profits they made on the hardware. This is why the got stuck with windows and MicroSoft saw an opportunity to trojan them.
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I see plenty of "business people" pull out a tablet and use it to make notes during meetings. The fact that it's not ergonomic doesn't matter since all they care about is being hip or something. Having your MS project handy on your tab is enough argument for any project manager to warrant it alone. Since the employer is picking up the tab, a $10 monthly fee for photoshop (not a $1000 price for a static license) isn't a problem either, if they need it for the job. People have allowed ergonomics to go die in a corner since someone thought that laptops would be cheaper than desk top computers for the employer, there is no reason tablets shouldn't replace those laptops either. The decision makers don't care about productivity anymore, they just think that everyone uses computers in the exact same way they do themselves and vendors only advertise shiny new "smaller is better" computers so the sheeple tend to want them as well. You may still want that big dual desktop 30" screen and a computer that will run that real estate effectively, but you're never going to get it since it's not "flexible" enough.
There are large binary blobs in your phone that hold the firmware for the baseband processor and other chips. Rooting the phone will give you some form of control over the OS running the user interface, but not the rest. It is probably trivial for attackers to find a backdoor in one of the binary blobs, once they start looking for it. It may be restricted to that model phone and that version of the binary blob, but chances are, that with just a few actual backdoors, implementations for most of the smart phones can be made. Don't trust your phone any more rooted than non-rooted, it's still mostly unknown territory for you even if you have it rooted.
The NSA may be a big problem, but it's hardly the only threat to people looking at data they have nothing to do with. How many admins have access to large troves of user data they have nothing to do with, that would make good money if sold to certain parties? How many databases hold data that can't be effectively shielded with more than a single layer from people that should only have access to parts of it? Stop fretting about the NSA in this context, they are only one of many threats this problem tries to solve.
Users are stupid, automated generators even more. You can't expect people to optimize queries themselves, which is why there is an optimizer in the code. If it brutally fails on something it is supposed to optimize, it's a bug.
Why would Monty do it again? He's spending years of his life and a lot of his money to get MariaDB up and going. The risk he will be out of more money, not even counting his time than he'll ever get back is pretty high. For Oracle, MariaDB wouldn't be much of a purchase. They will have to painfully merge the difference in codebase, the developers and customers will all run away instantly and all they'll have left is the diffs. Any other company that wants an RDBMS will gain more from purchasing MariaDB than Oracle. So even if MariaDB gets sold, the most unlikely new owner would be Oracle.
The reason we have computers is to help us do complicated stuff. If you want the user to solve all the hard work, you're going to be searching hard to find the users that have the skills to use something. I believe it's the task of the computer (programmer) to make the most stupid users still get their results without breaking anything. It takes away "natural selection", sure, but that's what we humans have been doing since we exist as a species.
Oracle has kept their testing suite and results closed source and secret. This is one of the reasons why MariaDB decided to do a cold hard fork and not look back. They can't possibly promise compatibility with Oracle since the specs are closed, effectively making the project closed. Assuming that Oracle tests things at all is purely speculation. If anything, regressions mentioned in other comments here suggest they don't do a very thorough job at all and their test suites only include new features and "old" tests, no regressions of bugs that got solved since they closed the testing specs.
How is MariaDB a small project and MySQL not? They both share roughly the same codebase and history. MariaDB has paid developers working on it, maybe even more than Oracle has on MySQL. For MariaDB, paying customers are probably more important than for Oracle, since Oracle can afford to lose money on this for a much longer time before they go bankrupt than MariaDB. If anything, the argument about "spending money on something only if it gives an immediate profit" applies way more to MariaDB than to Oracle.
You can artificially put vitamin A in (expensive, copyrighted) rice, but you won't fix the poverty that is the cause of all this. Once these people will (maybe, if they can afford it) have access to rice with vitamin A in it, the next deficiency will kill the "new" survivors. Fix their poverty, not their lack of vitamin A in their food. They will take care of the vitamin A without having to resort to GMO rice. Spending money on this sort of food modification won't pay for anyone but the copyright holders. It's not even about the "risks" of GMO, it's about the futility of trying to solve poverty with it.
I'm sorry, but there are lots of mobile business users that don't know dick about this. These people will call their companies help desk to get the problem sorted.
I wouldn't let anyone in to my office network without a VPN. No that VPN got blocked. Any provider that generates extra work for me or my department, will be on the list of "too bloody expensive" and will lose my business. My current employer happens to have a few hundred people in such a contract and often customers have similar or higher numbers. This will cost the providers that have such silly blocks to lose business customers of all sorts and sizes.
draw a penis on it
That just may count as a vote for the biggest dick on the list. At least it would explain a lot about the outcome of these elections.
Seriously, the NSA will help protect you from anyone but themselves. As long as the NSA has nothing to do on your box, they will do their utmost to prevent foreign intelligence, hackers and other mischievous individuals gaining entrance to the average Linux distribution. Even if they do have something to do on your box, they'll still try to keep others out. Now if you want to hide your stuff from the NSA, you will have to do a bit more than just run an up to date linux distribution. It doesn't really matter what you run, they will probably have researched it, or it will be so small that it will be hard to find useful applications for it....
By permanently removing people from the voting process, you are permanently removing them from the system that makes the laws. Try convincing someone he has to abide a law that is part of a system that cast him out. It's not their law any more, so why should they bother? You basically take away an important part of being a citizen for these people, you can't really expect them to behave like one if you do. Let them pay their debt to society and then let them carry on with their lives. Sure, probation time may be a period where you keep them from voting, but give their right to vote back once they served their time and paid their fines.
Paying someone an insane amount of money to do this would make this person easy to spot. How much kernel developers do you know have three houses, a private plane and a collection of racing cars? You can't pay them money without them being able to spend it.
A way more likely scenario would be to set them up for something criminal and then make them "an offer they can't refuse". It would be way cheaper and they would hold control over this person for the rest of their lives, not until they spent all the money.
Are you saying that people should be able to speak French (New Orleans area) and Spanish (most of Florida and south California) without problems? As far as I'm aware, the Government exclusively communicates in English and Spanish translations are offered merely as a courtesy. The only moment you will get "official" support for non English languages is in court, where you can have a translator translate the English that is spoken in court from and to your native language.
Most Americans don't speak or write English very well. The difference with the Chinese is, that they don't master any other language at all, while the Chinese often speak at least on other language fluently.
Your democratic representative should fight for uncapped internet at decent prices. If there is some form of a monopoly going on, there should be a price cap on how much an ISP is allowed to ask and what the minimal service for that price should be. That may sound communist, but monopolies have nothing to do with free market. If you want a market economy, you need the government to stimulate innovation and competition, so they should encourage your ISP to come up with ways to give you a better service and/or price if there is no "natural" competition for them.
The permit system is supposed to control the manner in which they are shooting up in the air. It's all perfectly legal and controlled if we set up a permit system, just like with firearms in general.
Maybe it will have a hinge for the kickstand?
They are listing the number of blocked events. If they adjusted the filter to not block, the sudden fall in numbers would be explained.
Yes, in the USA there are plenty of regulations. In the USA, they usually are pretty effective. However, the energy plant industry is not the only industry working with materials that emit nuclear radiation. Most large scrap merchants actually have Geiger counters set up to pick out radio active materials coming in on their yards permanently. Scrap gets moved all over the planet and on a global scale, dozens of "misplaced" items get found yearly that have a radiation dose that is actually dangerous to people that get near it for a few hours or more.
Having perfect regulations is only part of the solution. The other part is getting all humans involved to actually follow the regulations in the entire chain. People make mistakes and bend the rules because it's less work if you don't do all those checks. Most often, this does not lead to things going wrong, but we all know how publicly published incidents at nuclear reactors happen. The same applies for waste handling and disposal. Apart from that, once you get to countries and/or individuals that don't really have all that much of a morale, they may choose to knowingly mess with the paperwork and sell radioactive scrap as normal steel, once they shred it to little bits and "diluted" it with non-radio active materials. There's a good reason for those geiger tellers at scrap merchants, it's a well known trick and it happens often enough to warrant this sort of safeguards.
Once you start browsing the web site for these cubes, it's surprisingly shallow. There is no real information, the forum has a total of 6 posts and the wiki is empty. If you want to find out what video codecs are supported, or what linux distributions are ported to this device, your search will turn up nothing.
This may all change, but once you're getting your product up on sites like SlashDot, you really should have things like this taken care of. Right now it has a vaporware scent all over it and it may just be the next cheap dealextreme android HTPC device that comes with a load of half functioning applications and no way to get it fixed.
So if the SLS is the one thing killing NASA, don't do it. I wouldn't have the slightest idea what the SLS is (redaction?) but it sounds like a no-brainer to me.
Since when was Nokia ever a "major rival" to MicroSoft?
By the time they lost the edge with symbian, they were losing money on smart phones. They tried several things before eventually ending up using only windows. The real problem was that they couldn't get back in the black fast enough and they simply didn't have the funds left to continue their own development and try to reach profit again. Maybe they were selling hand sets at a higher price than it costed to produce them, but the development costs were way higher than the profits they made on the hardware. This is why the got stuck with windows and MicroSoft saw an opportunity to trojan them.