A database that can't handle power loss in the middle of a write would break on other filesystems as well, so btrfs is no worse. Except that, if you're ok with filesystem-specific code, you can use a btrfs transaction, which allows consistency without multiple fsyncs.
That "glacier" works just fine since many years ago. Don't confuse "in active development" with "unstable". When it comes to data safety, btrfs runs circles around any other filesystem.
As you build your own kernels instead of using distro-provided binaries, what's the reason to not skip a release you don't like? 3.11 breaks VirtualBox, it works fine both with 3.10 and 3.12-rc (and now with 3.12.0). A regression that lasts is bad, one that has been fixed in a later version means just "please upgrade".
Attacks against SHA1 are still purely theoretical: it would take several million dollars of hardware+electricity to produce a single collision. To subvert a git repository, you need to be able to have a commit of your own legitimately accepted, with no modifications (like Signed-off-by: by whoever took your patch, or modifications to the file you edit), and then, you need to pwn the server holding the public repository to replace that commit with the nefarious half of your collision.
That's a MASSIVE undertaking. On the other hand, you can learn the ways of Underhanded C and try to sneak the code in some driver... Thus, I trust the kernel git repo.
Even MD5 is perfectly secure against preimage attacks, barring any sudden breakthrough, for foreseable future.
Even worse, browsers introduce regressions like a Chrome's misfeature than came to Firefox as browser.urlbar.trimURLs. It really needs to go, yet it not only exists but defaults to true.
Let's all vote on bugzilla bug #691147. Seriously, it's time to switch the default to https, rather than making everything but http a second-class citizen.
The old liberal mantra, demand people live your way of die off quickly.
Isn't forcing others to do your way an almost exact antonym of "liberal"? But then, both factions of the US neocon party are near exact antonyms of "sanity".
Sorry to bear it to you, but your precious US dollar is not real money since 1934 when the US government defaulted. Any form of currency that can be devalued on a whim is make-believe: it lasts only as long as people believe in their government and banking system, and people are rapidly losing faith. Take a look at the public debt to GBP ratios: the debt spiral looks like there will be a collapse in no more than 10-20 years.
That's why people are so desperately looking at a currency that can't be spent at a deficit.
Then why in so many countries the mile was around 7.5 kilometers? Basically, everywhere north or east of Germany, although there's a few 11km miles as well.
You mean, editing a processor's microcode even though you don't have any documentation (because its manufacturer requires an evil NDA, etc) isn't cool?
Understanding how it works is also a step towards reverse engineering it, and I don't need to tell you what we could do if we fully reverse engineered cell machinery.
Actually, systemd's kind of socket activaction has one use: if you run a large server bank of small customers' virtual machines whose daemons stay off a vast majority of the time. For any other use, it's useless or even actively harmful: you won't know the daemon fails to run until you actually need it.
Another part of systemd is that it cripples cgroups for any other users, forcing them to beg systemd for any action. Again, this matches Red Hat's server farm's needs, but not those of most of us.
So they made the mistake of raising the debt ceiling yet again, after removing safeguards made the last time. Seriously, it's time to put it into the US constitution, like a number of countries have done. Come on, if even my parliamentcritters in Poland somehow managed to make it a part of the constitution, it's not a lost cause for the US. Hopefully.
When the last raising of the ceiling led to a credit rating downgrade, some public figures pretending to be serious went as far as calling for arrest of S&P officers because the rating downgrade was "treason" and hostile propaganda. According to that "worst case" scenario, the public debt would go from 62% in 2010 to 78% in 2013. Instead of that 78%, it is around 104%...
There's a downside: fdroid and co have a small fraction of Google Play's selection, but considering the extent of calling home going on, that quickly becomes a necessity if you want any semblance of privacy. I'd say giving an Android system the credentials of a google account is not so wise a decision.
8 years old supervised, 12 unsupervised but monitored and 16+ unmonitored.
You meant: 1.5 unsupervised but monitored. At that age a non-stupid kid can operate a tablet well enough to turn it on and, eg, browse youtube categories.
That's one of my nephews. For the other one, his parents tried to keep him away from computers, but they visit relatives often enough that they gave up at the age of 3 and merely limit the time spent.
Supervising school-age children: ha ha ha. Monitoring might be doable early on, but only in the first few school years unless you're a nazi. I happen to know a 11 years old who's semi-competent at Unix sysadmin tasks; had I a kid of my own I'd strive for something of this kind rather than try to bring up a luddite.
The problem lies in UCS-2 and UTF-16. The former can't even represent most of Unicode, the latter includes all worst points of UTF-8 and UCS-4: it's not text, needs complete new APIs, any corruption corrupts the rest of the text rather than just a single character, doesn't allow random access, etc, etc.
What you are noticing is the low levels of education and intelligence on the part of all the Slashdot editors.
This used to be a good website, but now it is a pathetic joke.
You should take a look then how the competition regressed. Slashdot, with its flaws, slowly becomes the only readable tech news website left (all others need at least filtering). Editors don't do their job, yeah, but comments from the community fix their errors immediately.
And as "everything used to be better in the past", that's nothing new, just browse some writings of Roman authors. But then, even nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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A database that can't handle power loss in the middle of a write would break on other filesystems as well, so btrfs is no worse. Except that, if you're ok with filesystem-specific code, you can use a btrfs transaction, which allows consistency without multiple fsyncs.
Btrfs features that break backwards compat are not enabled by default. Same with ext4.
That "glacier" works just fine since many years ago. Don't confuse "in active development" with "unstable". When it comes to data safety, btrfs runs circles around any other filesystem.
Because "Alex" is such an exemplary Romanian first name.
As you build your own kernels instead of using distro-provided binaries, what's the reason to not skip a release you don't like? 3.11 breaks VirtualBox, it works fine both with 3.10 and 3.12-rc (and now with 3.12.0). A regression that lasts is bad, one that has been fixed in a later version means just "please upgrade".
Attacks against SHA1 are still purely theoretical: it would take several million dollars of hardware+electricity to produce a single collision. To subvert a git repository, you need to be able to have a commit of your own legitimately accepted, with no modifications (like Signed-off-by: by whoever took your patch, or modifications to the file you edit), and then, you need to pwn the server holding the public repository to replace that commit with the nefarious half of your collision.
That's a MASSIVE undertaking. On the other hand, you can learn the ways of Underhanded C and try to sneak the code in some driver... Thus, I trust the kernel git repo.
Even MD5 is perfectly secure against preimage attacks, barring any sudden breakthrough, for foreseable future.
I for one resolve the "***" to "aeces". Which is still an insult to honest fertilizer.
Ask Trayvon Martin. Oh wait! You can't. He's dead at the hands of someone claiming "self-defense"
Please read for example this. Even bringing the case to trial was a gross abuse of political power to throw a bone to the anti-self-defense crowd.
Murder: A lawyer can say "this was justifiable homicide" or "he was standing his ground"
Tell me, how is self-defense "murder"?
Even worse, browsers introduce regressions like a Chrome's misfeature than came to Firefox as browser.urlbar.trimURLs. It really needs to go, yet it not only exists but defaults to true.
Let's all vote on bugzilla bug #691147. Seriously, it's time to switch the default to https, rather than making everything but http a second-class citizen.
Or rather, how many tens of embedded CPUs running Linux are hidden within components of that car.
The old liberal mantra, demand people live your way of die off quickly.
Isn't forcing others to do your way an almost exact antonym of "liberal"? But then, both factions of the US neocon party are near exact antonyms of "sanity".
Sorry to bear it to you, but your precious US dollar is not real money since 1934 when the US government defaulted. Any form of currency that can be devalued on a whim is make-believe: it lasts only as long as people believe in their government and banking system, and people are rapidly losing faith. Take a look at the public debt to GBP ratios: the debt spiral looks like there will be a collapse in no more than 10-20 years.
That's why people are so desperately looking at a currency that can't be spent at a deficit.
Can you show me a better phone than N900 then?
you really need CAT5e installed (outside the walls unfortunately).
You see, I got this here tool that can tunnel through walls.
Then why in so many countries the mile was around 7.5 kilometers? Basically, everywhere north or east of Germany, although there's a few 11km miles as well.
NDA [...]
Now ask yourself who "the manufacturer" is.
If you mean that bearded guy in the sky, not even his clergy give a damn about his laws anymore.
You mean, editing a processor's microcode even though you don't have any documentation (because its manufacturer requires an evil NDA, etc) isn't cool?
Understanding how it works is also a step towards reverse engineering it, and I don't need to tell you what we could do if we fully reverse engineered cell machinery.
Actually, systemd's kind of socket activaction has one use: if you run a large server bank of small customers' virtual machines whose daemons stay off a vast majority of the time. For any other use, it's useless or even actively harmful: you won't know the daemon fails to run until you actually need it.
Another part of systemd is that it cripples cgroups for any other users, forcing them to beg systemd for any action. Again, this matches Red Hat's server farm's needs, but not those of most of us.
So they made the mistake of raising the debt ceiling yet again, after removing safeguards made the last time. Seriously, it's time to put it into the US constitution, like a number of countries have done. Come on, if even my parliamentcritters in Poland somehow managed to make it a part of the constitution, it's not a lost cause for the US. Hopefully.
When the last raising of the ceiling led to a credit rating downgrade, some public figures pretending to be serious went as far as calling for arrest of S&P officers because the rating downgrade was "treason" and hostile propaganda. According to that "worst case" scenario, the public debt would go from 62% in 2010 to 78% in 2013. Instead of that 78%, it is around 104%...
There's a downside: fdroid and co have a small fraction of Google Play's selection, but considering the extent of calling home going on, that quickly becomes a necessity if you want any semblance of privacy. I'd say giving an Android system the credentials of a google account is not so wise a decision.
8 years old supervised, 12 unsupervised but monitored and 16+ unmonitored.
You meant: 1.5 unsupervised but monitored. At that age a non-stupid kid can operate a tablet well enough to turn it on and, eg, browse youtube categories.
That's one of my nephews. For the other one, his parents tried to keep him away from computers, but they visit relatives often enough that they gave up at the age of 3 and merely limit the time spent.
Supervising school-age children: ha ha ha. Monitoring might be doable early on, but only in the first few school years unless you're a nazi. I happen to know a 11 years old who's semi-competent at Unix sysadmin tasks; had I a kid of my own I'd strive for something of this kind rather than try to bring up a luddite.
The problem lies in UCS-2 and UTF-16. The former can't even represent most of Unicode, the latter includes all worst points of UTF-8 and UCS-4: it's not text, needs complete new APIs, any corruption corrupts the rest of the text rather than just a single character, doesn't allow random access, etc, etc.
What you are noticing is the low levels of education and intelligence on the part of all the Slashdot editors.
This used to be a good website, but now it is a pathetic joke.
You should take a look then how the competition regressed. Slashdot, with its flaws, slowly becomes the only readable tech news website left (all others need at least filtering). Editors don't do their job, yeah, but comments from the community fix their errors immediately.
And as "everything used to be better in the past", that's nothing new, just browse some writings of Roman authors. But then, even nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
On the other hand, it has no type meant to store a single character that is capable of doing so.