I suspect PHP continues to be popular because of apache2's mod-php. It's just too easy to use that instead of figuring out all the CGI/FCGI options to run Python or other language of choice.
The real perpetrators are the wealthy elite who plunder and pillage companies, amassing enormous wealth while exploiting their workforces. The politicians and bureaucrats you speak of so derisively are or last defence against those who would rob us blind.
Right about the wealthy elite, but unfortunately they are now so wealthy and powerful that the politicians and bureaucrats are in their pockets and cannot provide that defence.
Those netbooks were fucking garbage when they were first built. Do yourself a favor and throw it in the trash. I can buy a $50 tablet that runs faster.
They were garbage running Windows, but generally worked a lot better if you replaced that with a not-too-bloated Linux installation.
And I'd rather have xterm and mutt than a tablet for reading and managing email. But I guess that puts me in a minority...
Assume the CEO goes from $21M to $0 and redistribute among the 235,000 employees. Everyone gets less than $100 a year.
That's not the point.
What the inequality of wealth brings is inequality of power. Those at the top of the food chain can make and enforce decisions that benefit them financially. They can get laws passed, tax breaks, government restrictions lifted and politicians elected to suit their needs, and the resultant damage to everybody else is worth far more than $100.
The best thing for EV batteries when they are no longer good for EV use is second life battery projects reusing them for less demanding applications like static energy storage. When they can no longer deliver bursts of high current they can still hold lots of charge and be useful for years, for example balancing supply and demand in a house running on solar electricity.
Maybe after they're no good for that either they'll be worth dismantling and recycling.
Low cost devices that need a lightweight processor are well served by the lower end ARM core chips which don't do speculative execution and the other things that make them vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown. The Cortex-m series aren't on the list of vulnerable CPUs, for example.
Yes, Iridium certainly was still going a few years ago when I wrote some code to do FTP over it. (for data from unattended ice measuring equipment in Antarctica, the only way they could do it)
You simply CANNOT have enough fast chargers around to reasonably accommodate everyone who needs to fuel up in a day.
When just about every parking space has a charger (not necessarily a fast charger), the demand for fast chargers will be less.
Many EV owners now only charge at home (typically overnight) or only very rarely on a fast charger.
Also longer EV range and faster fast chargers (so you don't have to be on for so long) are coming.
Replaceable battery: Battery problem? Send new battery. Preserve most of purchaser's value and seller's income.
Unless the "battery problem" was that it caught fire and melted the phone.
But agreed in principle, of course, that non-replaceable batteries are a Bad Thing.
why is there not a single "Noto serif" font that combines them all? Or how else is one supposed to configure the browser now to give access to all those symbols?
A single font for all of them, as has been mentioned above, is possible but would be over 400MB, which is a problem for some of us.
Browsers will search other available fonts for a code point that's not in the current font, so you can install a collection of subset fonts that includes all the characters you are likely to need.
Ardour is a very capable DAW, but by itself it's not "A viable alternative to osx (and ms) for multimedia work".
AV Linux is, however, a snapshot of Debian testing with numerous setup tweaks and a real time kernel that does make a usable OS for audio work. And includes Ardour, of course.
(if you're interested, watch the AV Linux forum., A new release is imminent...)
Bad form to reply to my own post, I know, but I've just realised this is not the thing that Leadsom proposed, which was the "movie-style" rating system reported elsewhere. Apologies for spreading confusion and misinformation.
Not that either proposal has much merit, of course, for similar reasons.
This is the brainchild of Andrea Leadsom, one of the two final contestants for leadership of the Tory party (and hence the post of PM until the next general election). According to a comment on this story on The Register, she already has a reputation around Westminster as a "self-serving simpleton". Theresa May (the other contestant) is generally expected to win.
The best way to use keyboard input is not just to look at the characters sent but to measure the keystroke timing, preferably in microseconds or shorter, and use only the lower order bits of the time values. It still requires care to make there there isn't bias in the times when keyboard interrupts are allowed to happen, but it can potentially generate a lot more entropy.
It's still MUCH slower than background noise from a microphone or thermal noise from a resistor, but at least it uses hardware that's already there.
For some purposes (and I don't know if this applies to Tor's intended use) I've heard that real physical sources of entropy simply don't generate it fast enough, especially after their output bit rate has been reduced by whitening to remove bias and correlation.
Not the lipo batteries, but a drone will have other components harder than bone. Even if the frame is plastic or carbon fibre, the motors will be metal and I'd expect them to do more damage to a turbine blade than bird bones. And there will be at least four of them.
As for the explosion of the battery, in an environment where jet fuel is being burned, that's just a little extra heat and flame.
Also, anyone selling baby care products and a whole range of related home stuff would place huge value on a list like that. It's well known to marketers that new parenthood is a time when people are likely to change their shopping habits. Those email addresses are going to get deluged with spam.
Ardour does all that.
All your effects are done in real time as you play the sound. 32 or more tracks of them (Ardour has no actual limit) Easy editing, seamless joins, full automation on every parameter if you want it. I've used both Ardour and Audacity: there is no comparison. I use Audacity for quick trimming and normalization of stereo material recorded on a pocket sound recorder, but anything more complicated gets done on Ardour.
You can argue about Ardour vs. Pro Tools, but basically they do the same kind of job. Many audio professionals use Pro Tools not because it's better than anything else but simply because if you ever send your work to another studio or get another engineer to work in your studio, that's what they'll expect.
Incidentally, Ardour also works on OSX and Windows now, but it's better supported (because more widely used so far) on Linux.
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I suspect PHP continues to be popular because of apache2's mod-php. It's just too easy to use that instead of figuring out all the CGI/FCGI options to run Python or other language of choice.
PHP7.0 will continue to get security fixes on Debian Stretch for a year or two, certainly until after the next Debian release comes out.
The real perpetrators are the wealthy elite who plunder and pillage companies, amassing enormous wealth while exploiting their workforces. The politicians and bureaucrats you speak of so derisively are or last defence against those who would rob us blind.
Right about the wealthy elite, but unfortunately they are now so wealthy and powerful that the politicians and bureaucrats are in their pockets and cannot provide that defence.
Those netbooks were fucking garbage when they were first built. Do yourself a favor and throw it in the trash. I can buy a $50 tablet that runs faster.
They were garbage running Windows, but generally worked a lot better if you replaced that with a not-too-bloated Linux installation.
And I'd rather have xterm and mutt than a tablet for reading and managing email. But I guess that puts me in a minority...
Assume the CEO goes from $21M to $0 and redistribute among the 235,000 employees. Everyone gets less than $100 a year.
That's not the point.
What the inequality of wealth brings is inequality of power. Those at the top of the food chain can make and enforce decisions that benefit them financially. They can get laws passed, tax breaks, government restrictions lifted and politicians elected to suit their needs, and the resultant damage to everybody else is worth far more than $100.
The best thing for EV batteries when they are no longer good for EV use is second life battery projects reusing them for less demanding applications like static energy storage. When they can no longer deliver bursts of high current they can still hold lots of charge and be useful for years, for example balancing supply and demand in a house running on solar electricity. Maybe after they're no good for that either they'll be worth dismantling and recycling.
Low cost devices that need a lightweight processor are well served by the lower end ARM core chips which don't do speculative execution and the other things that make them vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown. The Cortex-m series aren't on the list of vulnerable CPUs, for example.
Humans are susceptible to optical illusions too, and optical illusions have caused driving accidents. Not to mention other human failings.
Yes, Iridium certainly was still going a few years ago when I wrote some code to do FTP over it. (for data from unattended ice measuring equipment in Antarctica, the only way they could do it)
You simply CANNOT have enough fast chargers around to reasonably accommodate everyone who needs to fuel up in a day.
When just about every parking space has a charger (not necessarily a fast charger), the demand for fast chargers will be less.
Many EV owners now only charge at home (typically overnight) or only very rarely on a fast charger.
Also longer EV range and faster fast chargers (so you don't have to be on for so long) are coming.
Anything is a pollutant if there is too much of it.
the dead have no ability to assert personal rights
No, no! Rights simply exist; they don't have to be asserted.
Replaceable battery: Battery problem? Send new battery. Preserve most of purchaser's value and seller's income.
Unless the "battery problem" was that it caught fire and melted the phone.
But agreed in principle, of course, that non-replaceable batteries are a Bad Thing.
We passed the point of "useful" and onto "making pointless shit then trying to get people to buy it".
Much of the world's economy has been based on that principle for decades.
(for quite plausible values of "useful" and "pointless")
why is there not a single "Noto serif" font that combines them all? Or how else is one supposed to configure the browser now to give access to all those symbols?
A single font for all of them, as has been mentioned above, is possible but would be over 400MB, which is a problem for some of us.
Browsers will search other available fonts for a code point that's not in the current font, so you can install a collection of subset fonts that includes all the characters you are likely to need.
Try Ardour: http://ardour.org/
Ardour is a very capable DAW, but by itself it's not "A viable alternative to osx (and ms) for multimedia work". AV Linux is, however, a snapshot of Debian testing with numerous setup tweaks and a real time kernel that does make a usable OS for audio work. And includes Ardour, of course.
(if you're interested, watch the AV Linux forum., A new release is imminent...)
Not that either proposal has much merit, of course, for similar reasons.
This is the brainchild of Andrea Leadsom, one of the two final contestants for leadership of the Tory party (and hence the post of PM until the next general election). According to a comment on this story on The Register, she already has a reputation around Westminster as a "self-serving simpleton". Theresa May (the other contestant) is generally expected to win.
It's still MUCH slower than background noise from a microphone or thermal noise from a resistor, but at least it uses hardware that's already there.
For some purposes (and I don't know if this applies to Tor's intended use) I've heard that real physical sources of entropy simply don't generate it fast enough, especially after their output bit rate has been reduced by whitening to remove bias and correlation.
As for the explosion of the battery, in an environment where jet fuel is being burned, that's just a little extra heat and flame.
Also, anyone selling baby care products and a whole range of related home stuff would place huge value on a list like that. It's well known to marketers that new parenthood is a time when people are likely to change their shopping habits. Those email addresses are going to get deluged with spam.
Oh, the irony! Remember when it was illegal to *export* strong encryption?
Many, many more than can afford $80k for a Tesla Model S.
You can argue about Ardour vs. Pro Tools, but basically they do the same kind of job. Many audio professionals use Pro Tools not because it's better than anything else but simply because if you ever send your work to another studio or get another engineer to work in your studio, that's what they'll expect.
Incidentally, Ardour also works on OSX and Windows now, but it's better supported (because more widely used so far) on Linux.