I've always felt that a rolling release, as exemplified by FreeBSD, naturally stablizes things. They have two branches, STABLE and HEAD (a/k/a CURRENT). New code is commited to HEAD and only once it's stabilized is it MFC'd (Merged From Current). Once in the STABLE branch it's feature frozen, and receives continuous refinement and debugging for the life of the code. There has always been a saying that "FreeBSD works like running water", and I attribute this statement to the development process.
In one of Greg's presentations he stated that Kernel development is the largest and fastest moving software development project in the world, by an order of magnitude. I don't have the answers for what needs to be done, but it speaks volumes that Enterprise Linux distributions choose to use a kernel from 2009. Something needs to be done.
Utterly stupid. It's trivial to hide a microSD card, all you need is AES encryption and Saran Wrap. Just stash it under a rock, or up a tree, or in a hotel room. You've got 57 million square miles to choose from.
I presume this doesn't work with NAT, so the "scan the entire Internet" is a bit misleading. That said, nice job. What would happen of you ran the scanner on a million systems all at once?
I would imagine the NSA could install their equipment more stealthily.
If you recall, the NSA was planning to cut 90% of their system administrator positions in the wake of Snowden. Abandon all hope, ye who fucks with root.
The original visionaries at DARPA must be rolling in their grave...
Not likely, the network is functioning beyond expectations. Hypertext is merely one of many protocols operating on this global network, and in twenty years it may not even be used. IP however, and probably TCP/UDP, will still be used a hundred years from now. Hopefully we'll have migrated to IPv6 by then...
Over time, state after state has passed laws to allow "one party consent". That is, only the party doing the recording has to "consent" to be recorded. And that's bullshit. The laws were passed to make it easier for law enforcement (and corporations) to gather surveillance on other people.
It works both ways. Don't take away my ability to catch a cop in a lie and make them look like an ass in court. It also comes in handy with psychotic soon to be ex-lovers, and in also come in employment discrimination and harassment cases. Like a good lock, it keeps people honest.
What if he feels he HAS to write a ticket instead of just give a warning, because his every move is being monitored by someone.
It's not his job to be a judge or jury. But at the same time, where is the balance between doing your job and common sense discretion? You could always have the video connected to a panel of grand jurists that review alleged offenses and issue indictments in real time. Sooner or later you would just have drone bots on the beat. I wonder if radical profiling would still be an issue...
You want real AI, genesis describes how in detail. In the beginning was a blank simulation, and in this simulation a programmer created everything within it in four days. On the fifth day he inserted evolutionary algorithmic programs, name adam and eve, and hit the start button; thousands of years iterated within the blink of an eye. On the eighth day, a Monday, he came back and collected the new code for Siri 2.0. On the nineth day, he contemplated infinite regress, and realized it was turtles all the way down.
Ask and you shall receive: This guy is suing because the cops demanded that he consent to them occupying his house. When he refused, they sent a team to take his house by force and arrested him.
Jesus, they did all that just so they could win against some poor dude they charged with domestic violence. Don't they have any forcable felonies to solve? Maybe they already took care of those people, if you know what I mean. We need to take away their immunity.
I'd be more incline to believe that caffine, a known stimulant and neurotoxin, is causing the issues. Are we really going to use a simple sucrose molecule as a scapegoat? Seriously? They didn't even document what kind of soda the kids drank, it could have been diet soda for all we know. Their has to be a hidden agenda here, however I still agree that we shouldn't be feeding junk foods to children. Drink some water, have an apple.
This is always something that has really bugged me. Why exactly is it someone's right to borrow money and then not pay it back? If you borrowed it, you should have to pay it back. It doesn't make any sense to allow people out from under their debts that they made the conscious decision to borrow.
You're missing the point,... shit happens. However you're right that you shouldn't put yourself in a position for something like that to happen. Credit is what a lot of people use to keep up with the joneses, and in many it's a physiological compulsion that is hard to control. What else would explain why someone would willing stratal themselves with $100k in student loan debt if given the chance.
I blame the lenders, a young person doesn't have the experience to know what it will take to pay off that amount, a rediculous amount like that should never be extended to a child. It's predatory just like those Western Sky loan ads I see on tv, if you've ever read the fine print their "loan" has an APR of 90%.
I've never seen the logic in paying a bank double what the purchase price of a house or car is worth. It's harder said then done, but if you buy everything with cash you don't have to watch your money go down the drain in bank fees. Buy a junker car, live with your parents for a while, go to community college, and maybe work for a few years. By the time you're ready to finish out your degree you should have enough saved up to not need any loans. Also remember that school is just a way to get your foot in the door, once you're through that door the rest get unlocked with experience.
If you think that's bad, even when you are disabled they still go after your social security benefits. I did everything needed to discharge a loan due to disability, I was approved and it was suppose to have been discharged. Years later I get a letter say I'm in default, that interest has been accruing, and that they secured a garnishment against my social security benefits ex parte. Three times I submitted the proper paperwork, and it even says on the website my loan is discharged. They don't care however, and my only next step is to sue them in Fedral court. They're already garnishing the pittance I get from Social Security, how exactly am I suppose to affored an attorney?
If anyone is contemplating suicide over student loan debt, umm I wouldn't normally say this, but maybe you should express yourself before you go...
If you're talking to me, and I'm taking notes via penmanship, I need to carefully listen and process everything you say in order to pick and choose words to write that will convey the meaning of your message. I can't write as fast as you can talk. When I type, I can word for word record every syllable of our conversation, at conversational or lecture speed.
Or your professor can stop being a douch and give everyone pre-prepared notes so that the class can dedicate their attention to a single activity. Actually lectures should be video recorded and assimilated on the students own time, class should be for Q & A and group review.
He is clearly just trying to show remorse and get a lighter sentence now. In any measurable way his actions have made the world a better place, no not resulted in any demonstrable harm (except what the US deserves for its actions).
Why do we tolerate this stuff? Seriously. It's not as if we need to rise up in arms to send a message to prosecutors who ignore public opinion. I honestly don't understand how we got to this point, their sole purpose is to represent the interests of the public, failing that they should be disbarred. We need better ways to collectively hold their feet to the fire.
I admit that the public is better of not knowing some things, as ignorance can be bliss, however concealing the truth has a measurable detriment to society... if only for the fact that we are not making informed decisions. Aside from what the law says, I don't think it's morally right to punish someone who feels that full disclosure is necessary, assuming it was made in good faith. I'm not a sheep, I don't want the wool pulled over my eyes.
For what it's worth, I've always learned best through hands-on and video instruction. The ability to pause a lecture, rewind it, play it back at a slower or faster rate, and play it back at any time is priceless. Non verbal queues are lost in audio only recordings, and attention has always been a problem for me due to lack of engagement. I'm a proficient reader, testing at a post grad level, but it has always been a laborious process for me. Additionally I have a strong aversion to serif fonts, as it's much harder for me to process words in these typefaces.
The one thing I wish professors would do is video record their lectures, dyslexic individuals can't take notes and process a lecture at the same time; this has been the largest impeder to my education. Every student benefits from this, really it's just stupid to not capture this information. I don't understand why it's ok in the teaching profession to needlessly dedicate hundreds of hours to repeating oneself to a new batch of students every year.
This was always part of the plan, they took a page directly out of the Xbox playbook, in that they knew the only way to get into the tablet market space was to subsidize their way. The Wintel market has stagnated as a result of maturity, and Microsoft has to do whatever it takes to get into this new market space. Remember back when they missed the boat with the Internet? They licensed Mosaic for millions and then developed and gave away Internet Explorer for free just to fix that problem. Their a bunch of fumbling idiots with unoriginal products, this has always been the case, and their content with this fact. Playing a perfect game is not a requirement for winning at chess.
If you had ten clones of a proven track horse you could increase your winnings by driving the horse harder, at the risk of damaging them because you have backup copies. For the welfare of the animals, this should be banned from horse racing... or any other sport that involves animals being commanded by people.
I don't understand why you would go to the effort and expense to clone a common quarter horse, but some of the more rarer breeds, particularly those with closed stud books, have to resort to in-breading on occasion to maintain the breed. this is a good thing for them.
I'll second that, It saddens me to say Fedora isn't stable enough for anything other then the desktop. The fundamental problem is it's Red Hat's play ground for RHEL, and when compared directly with products like Ubuntu LTS and RHEL, it feel like alpha software. I haven't managed to get a release to run to my satisfation that would make me want to use it on my systems... and I try every release, as my day job revolves around RHEL.
What they need is a distribution between the cutting edge Fedora and the proven RHEL. Red Hat will not allow Fedora to make a server version, I'd get that idea out of your head. I love RHEL because it is well fleshed out, but the current shipping product is still using 2.6.32, and I find that to be unacceptable sometimes. I want something like a RHEL Express, that takes advantage of the latest kernel offerings. I guess what I'm saying is Red Hat needs their own Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Linux Kernel offering, to wit allow me to run the RHEL 7 beta kernel on RHEL 6.
Honestly I can't see ether one failing. Oracle has corned the enterprise market, while Apple has corned the consumer market. Both of them are so large at this point that they can limp along like Microsoft ad infinitum. They will out live me, I know that much.
In the spirt of the show, everyone watching shoud be pirating it. Come on, haven't you learn anything from the show? Do we have to get out a barrel of piranha solution for your sorry ass?
So, no, don't go down the Apple route unless you intend to replace the whole system to stay current, even if it doesn't need it.
That's what you have to do with cars, it's unreasonable to expect that you can swap out the engine. No "consumer" has any idea how to swap out a engine, let alone a CPU. As a professional I sometimes lament that I can't hack my equipment, but seriously, get real. No one is forcing you to upgrade, the software doesn't expire. I have a CNC mill running Windows 95 and TurboCNC just fine thank you.
I wonder if they thought to make the solar panels attachable by cable so you can at least take the thing inside while it's charging.
Moreover the thing looks very fragile, like the panels could snap off with the slightest misuse, such as in a combat situation. I'd have just put a solar panel on the back of the display panel, sure you'll only get 5 ~ 10 watts but that's enough to supplement and charge during intermittent power outages. If you need to run electronics completely off the grid, you're better off having a discrete power distribution system. Who is going to sit in the sun for 8 hours using this thing?
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I've always felt that a rolling release, as exemplified by FreeBSD, naturally stablizes things. They have two branches, STABLE and HEAD (a/k/a CURRENT). New code is commited to HEAD and only once it's stabilized is it MFC'd (Merged From Current). Once in the STABLE branch it's feature frozen, and receives continuous refinement and debugging for the life of the code. There has always been a saying that "FreeBSD works like running water", and I attribute this statement to the development process.
In one of Greg's presentations he stated that Kernel development is the largest and fastest moving software development project in the world, by an order of magnitude. I don't have the answers for what needs to be done, but it speaks volumes that Enterprise Linux distributions choose to use a kernel from 2009. Something needs to be done.
Utterly stupid. It's trivial to hide a microSD card, all you need is AES encryption and Saran Wrap. Just stash it under a rock, or up a tree, or in a hotel room. You've got 57 million square miles to choose from.
I presume this doesn't work with NAT, so the "scan the entire Internet" is a bit misleading. That said, nice job. What would happen of you ran the scanner on a million systems all at once?
I would imagine the NSA could install their equipment more stealthily.
If you recall, the NSA was planning to cut 90% of their system administrator positions in the wake of Snowden. Abandon all hope, ye who fucks with root.
The original visionaries at DARPA must be rolling in their grave...
Not likely, the network is functioning beyond expectations. Hypertext is merely one of many protocols operating on this global network, and in twenty years it may not even be used. IP however, and probably TCP/UDP, will still be used a hundred years from now. Hopefully we'll have migrated to IPv6 by then...
It was just the NSA patching in their new data center...
Just hide it under a rock in Yosemite, microSDHC cards are waterproof.
Over time, state after state has passed laws to allow "one party consent". That is, only the party doing the recording has to "consent" to be recorded. And that's bullshit. The laws were passed to make it easier for law enforcement (and corporations) to gather surveillance on other people.
It works both ways. Don't take away my ability to catch a cop in a lie and make them look like an ass in court. It also comes in handy with psychotic soon to be ex-lovers, and in also come in employment discrimination and harassment cases. Like a good lock, it keeps people honest.
What if he feels he HAS to write a ticket instead of just give a warning, because his every move is being monitored by someone.
It's not his job to be a judge or jury. But at the same time, where is the balance between doing your job and common sense discretion? You could always have the video connected to a panel of grand jurists that review alleged offenses and issue indictments in real time. Sooner or later you would just have drone bots on the beat. I wonder if radical profiling would still be an issue...
You want real AI, genesis describes how in detail. In the beginning was a blank simulation, and in this simulation a programmer created everything within it in four days. On the fifth day he inserted evolutionary algorithmic programs, name adam and eve, and hit the start button; thousands of years iterated within the blink of an eye. On the eighth day, a Monday, he came back and collected the new code for Siri 2.0. On the nineth day, he contemplated infinite regress, and realized it was turtles all the way down.
Ask and you shall receive: This guy is suing because the cops demanded that he consent to them occupying his house. When he refused, they sent a team to take his house by force and arrested him.
Jesus, they did all that just so they could win against some poor dude they charged with domestic violence. Don't they have any forcable felonies to solve? Maybe they already took care of those people, if you know what I mean. We need to take away their immunity.
I'd be more incline to believe that caffine, a known stimulant and neurotoxin, is causing the issues. Are we really going to use a simple sucrose molecule as a scapegoat? Seriously? They didn't even document what kind of soda the kids drank, it could have been diet soda for all we know. Their has to be a hidden agenda here, however I still agree that we shouldn't be feeding junk foods to children. Drink some water, have an apple.
This is always something that has really bugged me. Why exactly is it someone's right to borrow money and then not pay it back? If you borrowed it, you should have to pay it back. It doesn't make any sense to allow people out from under their debts that they made the conscious decision to borrow.
You're missing the point, ... shit happens. However you're right that you shouldn't put yourself in a position for something like that to happen. Credit is what a lot of people use to keep up with the joneses, and in many it's a physiological compulsion that is hard to control. What else would explain why someone would willing stratal themselves with $100k in student loan debt if given the chance.
I blame the lenders, a young person doesn't have the experience to know what it will take to pay off that amount, a rediculous amount like that should never be extended to a child. It's predatory just like those Western Sky loan ads I see on tv, if you've ever read the fine print their "loan" has an APR of 90%.
I've never seen the logic in paying a bank double what the purchase price of a house or car is worth. It's harder said then done, but if you buy everything with cash you don't have to watch your money go down the drain in bank fees. Buy a junker car, live with your parents for a while, go to community college, and maybe work for a few years. By the time you're ready to finish out your degree you should have enough saved up to not need any loans. Also remember that school is just a way to get your foot in the door, once you're through that door the rest get unlocked with experience.
If you think that's bad, even when you are disabled they still go after your social security benefits. I did everything needed to discharge a loan due to disability, I was approved and it was suppose to have been discharged. Years later I get a letter say I'm in default, that interest has been accruing, and that they secured a garnishment against my social security benefits ex parte. Three times I submitted the proper paperwork, and it even says on the website my loan is discharged. They don't care however, and my only next step is to sue them in Fedral court. They're already garnishing the pittance I get from Social Security, how exactly am I suppose to affored an attorney?
If anyone is contemplating suicide over student loan debt, umm I wouldn't normally say this, but maybe you should express yourself before you go...
If you're talking to me, and I'm taking notes via penmanship, I need to carefully listen and process everything you say in order to pick and choose words to write that will convey the meaning of your message. I can't write as fast as you can talk. When I type, I can word for word record every syllable of our conversation, at conversational or lecture speed.
Or your professor can stop being a douch and give everyone pre-prepared notes so that the class can dedicate their attention to a single activity. Actually lectures should be video recorded and assimilated on the students own time, class should be for Q & A and group review.
He is clearly just trying to show remorse and get a lighter sentence now. In any measurable way his actions have made the world a better place, no not resulted in any demonstrable harm (except what the US deserves for its actions).
Why do we tolerate this stuff? Seriously. It's not as if we need to rise up in arms to send a message to prosecutors who ignore public opinion. I honestly don't understand how we got to this point, their sole purpose is to represent the interests of the public, failing that they should be disbarred. We need better ways to collectively hold their feet to the fire.
I admit that the public is better of not knowing some things, as ignorance can be bliss, however concealing the truth has a measurable detriment to society... if only for the fact that we are not making informed decisions. Aside from what the law says, I don't think it's morally right to punish someone who feels that full disclosure is necessary, assuming it was made in good faith. I'm not a sheep, I don't want the wool pulled over my eyes.
For what it's worth, I've always learned best through hands-on and video instruction. The ability to pause a lecture, rewind it, play it back at a slower or faster rate, and play it back at any time is priceless. Non verbal queues are lost in audio only recordings, and attention has always been a problem for me due to lack of engagement. I'm a proficient reader, testing at a post grad level, but it has always been a laborious process for me. Additionally I have a strong aversion to serif fonts, as it's much harder for me to process words in these typefaces.
The one thing I wish professors would do is video record their lectures, dyslexic individuals can't take notes and process a lecture at the same time; this has been the largest impeder to my education. Every student benefits from this, really it's just stupid to not capture this information. I don't understand why it's ok in the teaching profession to needlessly dedicate hundreds of hours to repeating oneself to a new batch of students every year.
This was always part of the plan, they took a page directly out of the Xbox playbook, in that they knew the only way to get into the tablet market space was to subsidize their way. The Wintel market has stagnated as a result of maturity, and Microsoft has to do whatever it takes to get into this new market space. Remember back when they missed the boat with the Internet? They licensed Mosaic for millions and then developed and gave away Internet Explorer for free just to fix that problem. Their a bunch of fumbling idiots with unoriginal products, this has always been the case, and their content with this fact. Playing a perfect game is not a requirement for winning at chess.
If you had ten clones of a proven track horse you could increase your winnings by driving the horse harder, at the risk of damaging them because you have backup copies. For the welfare of the animals, this should be banned from horse racing... or any other sport that involves animals being commanded by people.
I don't understand why you would go to the effort and expense to clone a common quarter horse, but some of the more rarer breeds, particularly those with closed stud books, have to resort to in-breading on occasion to maintain the breed. this is a good thing for them.
I'll second that, It saddens me to say Fedora isn't stable enough for anything other then the desktop. The fundamental problem is it's Red Hat's play ground for RHEL, and when compared directly with products like Ubuntu LTS and RHEL, it feel like alpha software. I haven't managed to get a release to run to my satisfation that would make me want to use it on my systems... and I try every release, as my day job revolves around RHEL.
What they need is a distribution between the cutting edge Fedora and the proven RHEL. Red Hat will not allow Fedora to make a server version, I'd get that idea out of your head. I love RHEL because it is well fleshed out, but the current shipping product is still using 2.6.32, and I find that to be unacceptable sometimes. I want something like a RHEL Express, that takes advantage of the latest kernel offerings. I guess what I'm saying is Red Hat needs their own Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Linux Kernel offering, to wit allow me to run the RHEL 7 beta kernel on RHEL 6.
My two cents as a Linux in the enterprise guy.
Honestly I can't see ether one failing. Oracle has corned the enterprise market, while Apple has corned the consumer market. Both of them are so large at this point that they can limp along like Microsoft ad infinitum. They will out live me, I know that much.
In the spirt of the show, everyone watching shoud be pirating it. Come on, haven't you learn anything from the show? Do we have to get out a barrel of piranha solution for your sorry ass?
So, no, don't go down the Apple route unless you intend to replace the whole system to stay current, even if it doesn't need it.
That's what you have to do with cars, it's unreasonable to expect that you can swap out the engine. No "consumer" has any idea how to swap out a engine, let alone a CPU. As a professional I sometimes lament that I can't hack my equipment, but seriously, get real. No one is forcing you to upgrade, the software doesn't expire. I have a CNC mill running Windows 95 and TurboCNC just fine thank you.
I wonder if they thought to make the solar panels attachable by cable so you can at least take the thing inside while it's charging.
Moreover the thing looks very fragile, like the panels could snap off with the slightest misuse, such as in a combat situation. I'd have just put a solar panel on the back of the display panel, sure you'll only get 5 ~ 10 watts but that's enough to supplement and charge during intermittent power outages. If you need to run electronics completely off the grid, you're better off having a discrete power distribution system. Who is going to sit in the sun for 8 hours using this thing?