I'm not even going to link to the xkcd comic, we all know it.
Besides, one of the awesome things about open source is anyone can attempt to build a better mousetrap for any reason they damn please. Yes it leads to fragmentation and a lot of duplicate effort, but it also leads to people trying out new ideas and having fun. This guy wants to make yet another window manager, all the power to him. Maybe it'll be awesome. Maybe it'll have some clever thing that gets used elsewhere. Maybe he'll get bored in a month or so. It's his time to waste regardless.
I doubt the organizations with those large blocks will sell them unless they become very expensive (which I don't think will happen for a long time). The costs of restructuring the network for a lot of these companies would far outweigh the gains.
What I see as far more likely is ISPs implementing carrier grade NAT as the default, and potentially charging a small fee for those who need a unique IP. The vast majority of users won't care, and as long as getting an IP if you run a game server or use skype or whatever is an easy process, it's actually not a bad solution. I figure we've got 10 years or so before we actually see IPv6 really take off.
ISPs will just use more carrier grade NAT to free up IPs, maybe charge a little extra if you want your own IP outside of NAT to run game servers or skype or whatever (a relatively small group). Should hold of IPv6 for another 10 years or so.
This requires security to be a priority over whatever that user is doing. In most cases, it's not. The job of IT is to keep the system running and support the people doing the things that the company actually cares about (buying widgets, making widgets, selling widgets, whatever). When IT folk get ideas of grandeur and images of violators of their well defined policy being given the boot, it never ends well.
Much as it sucks, I think the onus is on us to build software and systems that the user can't screw up. People clicking links and attachments.. filter out all links and attachments save for whitelisted senders. Careless with their password? Time for a 2 factor system where the hacker on the other end of the phone doesn't have easy access to one of the factors. Spearfishing becoming a problem? Implement something that makes it really obvious an email is from an outside source (and don't make it a big paragraph, just a simple large font "THIS EMAIL WAS SENT FROM SOMEONE OUTSIDE OF THIS COMPANY" at the top.
I would presume parent is making jest of the excessively biased Fox News and the somewhat biased Watchdog News. Usually they try to at least work in a halfhearted jab against Obama. I too was waiting for the "and here is why Obama is to blame" punchline as soon as I saw the source of the article.
Anyway, I agree with other posters. This article is aimed at stirring up fear within their demographic, not technical discussion. If you drill down far enough there is a much better article that probably should have been directly linked.
I've gotta go with the hive mind here as well. I do most of my note taking on pads of paper, then throw those pages into physical folders, and then those folders into a filing cabinet.
On the computer side, a folder with the name of the project/task/whatever to dump digital stuff related to it.
It's not a matter of adaption, it's a matter of, as you said, nostalgia.
And it goes way beyond the media itself. A magazine as an information source plays much differently than the internet.
If there's a market of people willing to pay for the nostalgia benefit, this could work. As in this context it's ultimately a luxury item (similar to a beer or a vacation), any arguments about wastefulness and inefficiency become silly.
I'll give them that the main page is better. I still wouldn't go so far as to say I like it, but it's at least got a reasonable amount of content for the space.
The comment page is still terrible though. And really it's all about the comment page.
Yes by all objective measures it's an inferior way to distribute and access data, but much like watching television vs streaming/on demand, it has it's charms and nuances that haven't been reproduced digitally.
Linux Voice specifically doesn't sound like my cup of tea based on reading the snippets on their site, but I can see where they might find an audience.
More importantly, you need new things to sell. Even if what we've got was good enough, there's an entire industry (well, several) focused on coming up with better and then convincing us that we want it. Personally I see this as a good thing.
Unless you own the bar, you don't know that for sure.
Sure, the bar owner or some employee could be keeping copies of the recordings for their own amusement, but a bar that became known for publishing embarrassing security camera footage of it's patrons would probably not stay in business very long.
The recording functionality of glass threatens that.
Yes in theory some day a technology may be developed that turns a human into a camera. When that day comes, I imagine there will be the same kind of as there is to Google Glass.
When I'm hanging out at a bar talking with friends, as has been said, I have a reasonable expectation that unless someone is making a specific effort to listen in and memorize what I am saying, or using a covert recording device, that conversation is only relevant in my life for that short period of time.
With ubiquitous recording, that conversation can be recorded and analyzed after the fact, shared with others, stored indefinitely, etc. As has been said, this was always a very slight risk as the technology to do this covertly has existed for a while, but technology like Google Glass is aiming at making this a ubiquitous threat, which is what people are reacting negatively too.
Personally I'm banking on society sorting this out. The lack of covertness with Google Glass is our savior. As long as people can spot these assholes, and as long as social opinion of this is low enough that these people will be harassed and encouraged to cut that shit out, this will hopefully not catch on.
You got modded down but it's a good general point.
If I'm going somewhere that parking is going to be an issue, I take a bus or a cab down. It's not worth the aggravation and cost of trying to find a spot. I imagine a lot of geeks fall into a similar behaviour.
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Interestingly there's kind of a weird interest in the Aztek right now due to it being featured on Breaking Bad.
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We got tiling WMs.
I'm not a fan of them, but it's kinda different.
I'm not even going to link to the xkcd comic, we all know it.
Besides, one of the awesome things about open source is anyone can attempt to build a better mousetrap for any reason they damn please. Yes it leads to fragmentation and a lot of duplicate effort, but it also leads to people trying out new ideas and having fun. This guy wants to make yet another window manager, all the power to him. Maybe it'll be awesome. Maybe it'll have some clever thing that gets used elsewhere. Maybe he'll get bored in a month or so. It's his time to waste regardless.
I doubt the organizations with those large blocks will sell them unless they become very expensive (which I don't think will happen for a long time). The costs of restructuring the network for a lot of these companies would far outweigh the gains.
What I see as far more likely is ISPs implementing carrier grade NAT as the default, and potentially charging a small fee for those who need a unique IP. The vast majority of users won't care, and as long as getting an IP if you run a game server or use skype or whatever is an easy process, it's actually not a bad solution. I figure we've got 10 years or so before we actually see IPv6 really take off.
* hold off
Nah.
ISPs will just use more carrier grade NAT to free up IPs, maybe charge a little extra if you want your own IP outside of NAT to run game servers or skype or whatever (a relatively small group). Should hold of IPv6 for another 10 years or so.
This requires security to be a priority over whatever that user is doing. In most cases, it's not. The job of IT is to keep the system running and support the people doing the things that the company actually cares about (buying widgets, making widgets, selling widgets, whatever). When IT folk get ideas of grandeur and images of violators of their well defined policy being given the boot, it never ends well.
Much as it sucks, I think the onus is on us to build software and systems that the user can't screw up. People clicking links and attachments.. filter out all links and attachments save for whitelisted senders. Careless with their password? Time for a 2 factor system where the hacker on the other end of the phone doesn't have easy access to one of the factors. Spearfishing becoming a problem? Implement something that makes it really obvious an email is from an outside source (and don't make it a big paragraph, just a simple large font "THIS EMAIL WAS SENT FROM SOMEONE OUTSIDE OF THIS COMPANY" at the top.
The problem with that analogy is that we still have car accidents, many of which are serious.
Users are gonna do stupid things when it comes to security. Trying to fix that is a noble goal, but good luck.
The direction we need to keep going towards is idiot proofing. Assume the user will screw up and mitigate or eliminate the impact.
Like most tools, there's a great deal of variability and options out there.
Some log splitters are painfully slow, whereas some of the better multi-stage/variable speed types probably work at about the rate I could.
Even with a slow log splitter, I'd rather hang out with a beer and feed the thing over a few hours than spend a half hour with an axe.
From the weapon itself, not much. From what it means that someone is able to and is firing it, I think we could derive plenty.
I would presume parent is making jest of the excessively biased Fox News and the somewhat biased Watchdog News. Usually they try to at least work in a halfhearted jab against Obama. I too was waiting for the "and here is why Obama is to blame" punchline as soon as I saw the source of the article.
Anyway, I agree with other posters. This article is aimed at stirring up fear within their demographic, not technical discussion. If you drill down far enough there is a much better article that probably should have been directly linked.
I've gotta go with the hive mind here as well. I do most of my note taking on pads of paper, then throw those pages into physical folders, and then those folders into a filing cabinet.
On the computer side, a folder with the name of the project/task/whatever to dump digital stuff related to it.
Old fashioned, sure.. but it works.
It's not a matter of adaption, it's a matter of, as you said, nostalgia.
And it goes way beyond the media itself. A magazine as an information source plays much differently than the internet.
If there's a market of people willing to pay for the nostalgia benefit, this could work. As in this context it's ultimately a luxury item (similar to a beer or a vacation), any arguments about wastefulness and inefficiency become silly.
I gave it a legit try. Still not a fan.
I'll give them that the main page is better. I still wouldn't go so far as to say I like it, but it's at least got a reasonable amount of content for the space.
The comment page is still terrible though. And really it's all about the comment page.
This is an old troll. If you google snippets of it, you'll see it has been posted on a variety of sites going back to like 2002.
This troll is at least 10 years old. Kinda appropriate given the article really!
While we are off topic, I just gave beta a legit try. Still hate it. Main page is much better, I'll give them that, but the comments page still sucks.
Honestly I miss the paper magazine thing.
Yes by all objective measures it's an inferior way to distribute and access data, but much like watching television vs streaming/on demand, it has it's charms and nuances that haven't been reproduced digitally.
Linux Voice specifically doesn't sound like my cup of tea based on reading the snippets on their site, but I can see where they might find an audience.
I assume you are talking about that stupid search feature.
While I agree it is a dumb thing to have enabled by default, and certainly have no love for ubuntu in general, I'd hesitate to call it spyware.
More importantly, you need new things to sell. Even if what we've got was good enough, there's an entire industry (well, several) focused on coming up with better and then convincing us that we want it. Personally I see this as a good thing.
With enough numbers and pages tedious explanation, you can basically say anything you want.
Unless you own the bar, you don't know that for sure.
Sure, the bar owner or some employee could be keeping copies of the recordings for their own amusement, but a bar that became known for publishing embarrassing security camera footage of it's patrons would probably not stay in business very long.
The recording functionality of glass threatens that.
Yes in theory some day a technology may be developed that turns a human into a camera. When that day comes, I imagine there will be the same kind of as there is to Google Glass.
When I'm hanging out at a bar talking with friends, as has been said, I have a reasonable expectation that unless someone is making a specific effort to listen in and memorize what I am saying, or using a covert recording device, that conversation is only relevant in my life for that short period of time.
With ubiquitous recording, that conversation can be recorded and analyzed after the fact, shared with others, stored indefinitely, etc. As has been said, this was always a very slight risk as the technology to do this covertly has existed for a while, but technology like Google Glass is aiming at making this a ubiquitous threat, which is what people are reacting negatively too.
Personally I'm banking on society sorting this out. The lack of covertness with Google Glass is our savior. As long as people can spot these assholes, and as long as social opinion of this is low enough that these people will be harassed and encouraged to cut that shit out, this will hopefully not catch on.
You got modded down but it's a good general point.
If I'm going somewhere that parking is going to be an issue, I take a bus or a cab down. It's not worth the aggravation and cost of trying to find a spot. I imagine a lot of geeks fall into a similar behaviour.