Not sure why we would care -- it's just an old already-replaced short lived release. The release Ubuntu users should care about is 14.04 (supported until 2019-04) as it's the last one with a sane init.
there's nothing wrong with a high bit rate MP3, except that it's maybe a MB or two bigger than an equivalent AAC. If it lacked quality it would be different.
It lacks quality. Even on regular gear with my bad 39 years old ears I can ABX 320kbit MP3 on specific samples, trained people can do so on typical (rather than specifically chosen) MP3s.
On the other hand, 128kbit Opus is fully transparent in quiet rooms on expensive gear, while 96kbit is enough for regular listening conditions. OGG and AAC are somewhat worse, but not drastically so.
There's no reason to use MP3 unless you suffer from ancient software you can't update.
Uhm, do you even know what ATM is? It implements OSI levels up to 3 -- we don't really care about levels 1 and 2 as that's a hidden implementation detail, but what matters is that level 3 is routed. An ATM circuit goes at least from one edge of the ISP to another. IP packets are split and encapsulated inside, this means the user's bogus QoS fields are completely ignored and handled like any other payload. ATM has its own QoS that the customer can't put their grubby mitts on: among others, it prevents bursts in other traffic interrupting low-bandwidth high-priority connections that are handled specially.
Many newer networks use IP-in-IP instead, but the concept is the same.
And the ISP doesn't even care if you use TCP, UDP, ICMP or any of many odd protocols at that level. They may look at packet type to prioritize certain kinds of traffic, but that's no different from looking at TCP port as well. It's just a payload.
That code is loadable, and depending on the boot chain you may or may not be able to replace it. And you do get the source -- at least to the reference version, your machine's vendor may load something else there.
eat 4 hotdogs or 2 burgers. I see it every weekend. People eat multiple burgers/hotdogs, chips and fatty dip, strawberries with pound cake and whip cream, all while sipping their slimming Diet Coke.
How do you even eat multiple burgers? I have a moderate weight problem (85kg and slowly climbing), yet when I try American food in that 1-in-2-years visit to McDonald's, after a BigMac with medium fries I feel bloated.
So you'd need to overcome that bloated feeling and keep stuffing yourself.
Well yeah, but when a tool complains that a name is "illegal", it makes you stop. Most users will then believe the error message and pick something else, without thinking.
There are so many ways to add an username Poettering won't like. The majority of programs for creating new accounts (except for adduser). Samba+AD, as you said. LDAP. Any random "pull authentication from a database" script. Using an editor on/etc/passwd. Etc.
POSIX defines a minimal set that must be supported, and systemd fails to handle even that.
But this is not the damning part -- every piece of software can have bugs, any non-trivial piece of software has bugs. This is natural. What's totally, utterly unacceptable, is responding to an obvious, critical bug, that also contradict the standard without providing a rationale, with a WONTFIX.
On a shit package that applies rainbow colors to a line of text, this would be grounds for immediate purging.
On something that wants to replace init+rc+mount+pm-utils+DNS+lxc+about everything else, it's grounds for nuking an entire distribution from the orbit.
Having kids or a nagging wife means you'd want to waste that 1h30m commuting, sit in a cubicle then waste another 1h30m coming back. For the rest of us, though, extra three hours of productivity or leisure makes such a massive difference that it's hard to find enough downsides.
Some of us go way over the edge -- especially if you can train your boss that's it ok to call you at 4am rather than at the crack of noon; those of us do work hard to maintain the public opinion on programmers:).
But if you require being on the clock, the employeer can get the best of both worlds for any child-less employee.
You realize this is an international site? There's a multitude of applicable laws.
This thread (started here) is specifically about Maryland, a state that requires consent of all parties.
If you want to go international, here's the law of Poland, the country I live in: a private person may record a conversation he's a participant of (ie, "one-party consent", Kodeks Karny art 267.3). The recording itself, though, may not be used or distributed freely (Kodeks Cywilny art 23) -- using it in a court case is okay, so is using it privately, but you may not distribute. A company, on the other hand, is required to obtain consent in a clear way, before recording.
Any case law to back up the notion that it's reasonable to have an expectation of privacy in someone else's house?
You have this weird "case law" system where the law doesn't say what it actually does but what a past judge had a whim to say it does. But, the chart the OP linked to does provide a detailed list of interpretations.
In countries that have never been an English colony, precedents don't have any force at all, thus only the law as written matters.
Even better, 3:4 screen resolutions (not for laptops, obviously). For now, old supplies last -- I've just snagged an used but mint condition "professional" 1600x1200 one for $40 (only flaw: it weights like 5 tons so a regular mounting arm wouldn't hold it). Too bad, once such monitors degrade, we'll be fucked with only 16:9 crap left. Useless in landscape, can't be reasonably placed in portrait either.
You have clicked through the user agreement. Your guests have not.
Did you force your guests to visit?
No, but they have the right to assume their rights won't be violated. Likewise, if there's a concealed spiked pit trapdoor behind your entrance, you have a duty to inform your guests.
The law reads clear to me
Let me guess. You're not a lawyer?
While we keep saying how evil lawyers are and how badly they twist the wording, I don't suspect a judge to be likely to have a different interpretation of a law written in such an obvious way. You need to have consent of every visitor -- usually, merely informing them is enough but you need to at least do that. This is not a public space, thus there's an expectation of privacy.
You have clicked through the user agreement. Your guests have not. The law reads clear to me: someone is in violation of the recording law. According to how the fine print was written, the guilty party is either Amazon or you.
You don't know what "responsive" means, do You? Hint: You want a site to be responsive. If it isn't then it is designed wrong.
Try browsing from an ARM laptop: you get useless "mobile" versions even though the machine has a form factor indistinguishable from x86 laptops. Or, on a desktop, have your primary monitor in portrait mode (much better for 90% of sane webpages!) -- you'll often see it degrade to a mystery hamburger menu with all other misfeatures.
I see what the idea of "responsive" means, but what I complain about are prevailing implementations.
I heard this differently: that the database/. uses is currently in ISO-8859-1, and would need to be migrated to UTF-8; the front-end can be switched between both.
We're on Slashdot not Soylent, here's no Unicode support. You don't expect those who wrote Slashcode to be able to enable a feature that's ready since a decade ago, do you?
Actually, my country government can't find their asses with both hands. They're thoroughly busy firing any employee with a shred of competency and replacing them with 20 years old nephews of their party members. So even though they violate the Constitution at almost every step, they're so incompetent they're not a threat to anyone living abroad.
The previous government had its flaws but neither gross incompetence nor illegal spying was seriously alleged.
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Copyright law being used for what it was intended then?
Censorship? Yeah. Just like in the days of the Worshipful Company of Stationers.
Not sure why we would care -- it's just an old already-replaced short lived release. The release Ubuntu users should care about is 14.04 (supported until 2019-04) as it's the last one with a sane init.
there's nothing wrong with a high bit rate MP3, except that it's maybe a MB or two bigger than an equivalent AAC. If it lacked quality it would be different.
It lacks quality. Even on regular gear with my bad 39 years old ears I can ABX 320kbit MP3 on specific samples, trained people can do so on typical (rather than specifically chosen) MP3s.
On the other hand, 128kbit Opus is fully transparent in quiet rooms on expensive gear, while 96kbit is enough for regular listening conditions. OGG and AAC are somewhat worse, but not drastically so.
There's no reason to use MP3 unless you suffer from ancient software you can't update.
Uhm, do you even know what ATM is? It implements OSI levels up to 3 -- we don't really care about levels 1 and 2 as that's a hidden implementation detail, but what matters is that level 3 is routed. An ATM circuit goes at least from one edge of the ISP to another. IP packets are split and encapsulated inside, this means the user's bogus QoS fields are completely ignored and handled like any other payload. ATM has its own QoS that the customer can't put their grubby mitts on: among others, it prevents bursts in other traffic interrupting low-bandwidth high-priority connections that are handled specially.
Many newer networks use IP-in-IP instead, but the concept is the same.
And the ISP doesn't even care if you use TCP, UDP, ICMP or any of many odd protocols at that level. They may look at packet type to prioritize certain kinds of traffic, but that's no different from looking at TCP port as well. It's just a payload.
That code is loadable, and depending on the boot chain you may or may not be able to replace it. And you do get the source -- at least to the reference version, your machine's vendor may load something else there.
The ISP would just clean the flag on packets sent by mere mortals. And usually they use ATM anyway, so you can't possibly interfere with such traffic.
Try this: convert myimage.png.jpeg.xpm.tif.whatever tmp.ubrl && tail -n+4 tmp.ubrl
Then paste into any text medium that has been updated this millenium (ie, not Slashdot). Resolution is 2x4 per character, black&white only.
eat 4 hotdogs or 2 burgers. I see it every weekend. People eat multiple burgers/hotdogs, chips and fatty dip, strawberries with pound cake and whip cream, all while sipping their slimming Diet Coke.
How do you even eat multiple burgers? I have a moderate weight problem (85kg and slowly climbing), yet when I try American food in that 1-in-2-years visit to McDonald's, after a BigMac with medium fries I feel bloated.
So you'd need to overcome that bloated feeling and keep stuffing yourself.
Well yeah, but when a tool complains that a name is "illegal", it makes you stop. Most users will then believe the error message and pick something else, without thinking.
When Linus did not like previous solutions (CVS, SVN) yet his chosen program (BitKeeper) went apeshit, see what he did. Let's see how this goes...
There are so many ways to add an username Poettering won't like. The majority of programs for creating new accounts (except for adduser). Samba+AD, as you said. LDAP. Any random "pull authentication from a database" script. Using an editor on /etc/passwd. Etc.
POSIX defines a minimal set that must be supported, and systemd fails to handle even that.
But this is not the damning part -- every piece of software can have bugs, any non-trivial piece of software has bugs. This is natural. What's totally, utterly unacceptable, is responding to an obvious, critical bug, that also contradict the standard without providing a rationale, with a WONTFIX.
On a shit package that applies rainbow colors to a line of text, this would be grounds for immediate purging.
On something that wants to replace init+rc+mount+pm-utils+DNS+lxc+about everything else, it's grounds for nuking an entire distribution from the orbit.
Why? Everyone knows IPv4 is the real internet. IPv6 is a third world wankernet full of poor people
I'd say the correlation between technical abilities of a site's owner and IPv6 support is really high.
dig -t aaaa slashdot.org -- hmm...
Personally I just go into a room, close the door, and tell them to leave me alone.
That starts being possible only once the kids go into late teens, and usually not even then.
Why is "wife" associated with "nagging" more often than not? In my case, I find that I associate "wife" with the words "loving & caring."
Just wait a few months (or years if you're really lucky), and then you'll see.
And with kids, the wait time is negative.
Having kids or a nagging wife means you'd want to waste that 1h30m commuting, sit in a cubicle then waste another 1h30m coming back. For the rest of us, though, extra three hours of productivity or leisure makes such a massive difference that it's hard to find enough downsides.
Some of us go way over the edge -- especially if you can train your boss that's it ok to call you at 4am rather than at the crack of noon; those of us do work hard to maintain the public opinion on programmers :).
But if you require being on the clock, the employeer can get the best of both worlds for any child-less employee.
You realize this is an international site? There's a multitude of applicable laws.
This thread (started here) is specifically about Maryland, a state that requires consent of all parties.
If you want to go international, here's the law of Poland, the country I live in: a private person may record a conversation he's a participant of (ie, "one-party consent", Kodeks Karny art 267.3). The recording itself, though, may not be used or distributed freely (Kodeks Cywilny art 23) -- using it in a court case is okay, so is using it privately, but you may not distribute. A company, on the other hand, is required to obtain consent in a clear way, before recording.
Any case law to back up the notion that it's reasonable to have an expectation of privacy in someone else's house?
You have this weird "case law" system where the law doesn't say what it actually does but what a past judge had a whim to say it does. But, the chart the OP linked to does provide a detailed list of interpretations.
In countries that have never been an English colony, precedents don't have any force at all, thus only the law as written matters.
Actually, this monitor is LCD. A LCD that weights 17kg (I'm not joking! -- just checked with a personal scale).
Even better, 3:4 screen resolutions (not for laptops, obviously). For now, old supplies last -- I've just snagged an used but mint condition "professional" 1600x1200 one for $40 (only flaw: it weights like 5 tons so a regular mounting arm wouldn't hold it). Too bad, once such monitors degrade, we'll be fucked with only 16:9 crap left. Useless in landscape, can't be reasonably placed in portrait either.
You have clicked through the user agreement. Your guests have not.
Did you force your guests to visit?
No, but they have the right to assume their rights won't be violated. Likewise, if there's a concealed spiked pit trapdoor behind your entrance, you have a duty to inform your guests.
The law reads clear to me
Let me guess. You're not a lawyer?
While we keep saying how evil lawyers are and how badly they twist the wording, I don't suspect a judge to be likely to have a different interpretation of a law written in such an obvious way. You need to have consent of every visitor -- usually, merely informing them is enough but you need to at least do that. This is not a public space, thus there's an expectation of privacy.
You have clicked through the user agreement. Your guests have not. The law reads clear to me: someone is in violation of the recording law. According to how the fine print was written, the guilty party is either Amazon or you.
You don't know what "responsive" means, do You? Hint: You want a site to be responsive. If it isn't then it is designed wrong.
Try browsing from an ARM laptop: you get useless "mobile" versions even though the machine has a form factor indistinguishable from x86 laptops. Or, on a desktop, have your primary monitor in portrait mode (much better for 90% of sane webpages!) -- you'll often see it degrade to a mystery hamburger menu with all other misfeatures.
I see what the idea of "responsive" means, but what I complain about are prevailing implementations.
I heard this differently: that the database /. uses is currently in ISO-8859-1, and would need to be migrated to UTF-8; the front-end can be switched between both.
Javascript needs to die. While it can be used for good, for one such use there's 10 parallaxative "responsive" webshites.
Use Unicode for micro, yo insensitive clod!
We're on Slashdot not Soylent, here's no Unicode support. You don't expect those who wrote Slashcode to be able to enable a feature that's ready since a decade ago, do you?
Actually, my country government can't find their asses with both hands. They're thoroughly busy firing any employee with a shred of competency and replacing them with 20 years old nephews of their party members. So even though they violate the Constitution at almost every step, they're so incompetent they're not a threat to anyone living abroad.
The previous government had its flaws but neither gross incompetence nor illegal spying was seriously alleged.