You absolutely can modify the Linux kernel and still claim it's the Linux kernel. What on earth are you talking about? That happens literally every day.
If trademark were enforced in the way you claim, Linux wouldn't exist. Nor would FreeBSD. Hell, PFSENSE wouldn't exist. I just don't buy that as the reasoning behind the actions that were taken.
As a user (still on pfsense) who watched it all go down, I'm going to scream BS. ESF basically shut down the build tools and went *COMPLETELY DARK* for almost two weeks as I recall it. Not responding to anybody, and basically saying "give us time to figure out what we're going to do". You guys were pissed that there were third parties selling hardware when that was your primary source of revenue, and nobody had any idea what your plans were.
After much outcry from the community, things slowly started opening back up. If nothing else, OPNsense seemed to kick the team in the ass to actually make a GUI that doesn't look like it's from the early 90s. I love pfsense, but this whole "we didn't do anything wrong, we have no idea why they reacted like that" is complete and utter bullshit. You guys made it very clear your intent was to stop other people from selling hardware using the PFsense logo/name, and were originally planning on making it EXTREMELY difficult for people to make customized builds of pfsense as a way to accomplish that.
Dell's last two attempts at storage - equallogic and compellent - have been complete and utter failures. Their portion of market share isn't even a rounding error. EMC would give them a legitimate play in storage, not even taking into account RSA and their other software products.
For literally decades MS has been getting lit up for all the botnets in the wild based off of unpatched Windows boxes. So, they finally do what everyone knows needed to be done, and force updates on home users, to ensure they get patched. And what does slashdot do when MS finally does what was asked of them? Bitches and moans that they don't want what they asked for. Let me guess "you should be able to easily disable it" - so that the first vulnerability that hits a Windows box turns updating off, and we're right back where we started. Am I a big fan of it? No. But I 100% get the reason for it.
If a 'rich fucker' lives in a house that is valued at twice the average value in their community, then they pay twice the property taxes to help fund public schools their 'average' neighbor pays. (There are no deductions or loopholes.) If that 'rich fucker' then turns around and enrolls their child in a private school they are 100% responsible for the tuition costs and get NO deduction or credit on their property taxes.
That depends ENTIRELY on the state. There are plenty of states that give the parents vouchers to send their kids to that private school. So no, they aren't 100% responsible for the tuition costs, and they do get a "deduction" or whatever you want to label it, in the form of a voucher.
The real motivation for change/improvement in public education will be school choice/vouchers - that will allow concerned parents to abandon failing public schools for better ones, and as failing schools are shuttered bad teachers can be weeded out of the system. Competition is healthy, the lack of serious competition is (contributing to) our currently failing public education system.
No, shitty parents are why our schools are failing. There's absolutely nothing a school can do to cope with parents who don't discipline their children, or make any attempt to help them with their homework. There are only so many hours in the day, and at some point a parent needs to be a parent. When all those "failing public schools" close down, and the state mandates private schools not turn children away, the same shitty parents with the same shitty kids will cause the same shitty problems in the private schools. You're delusional if you think otherwise. Unless of course you're advocating that private schools should be allowed to deny students access to an education after all of the public schools have shutdown. In which case you and your elitest worldview can pound fucking sand. When the poor revolt don't expect anyone to rise up and defend you.
That's great if you're either:
A. doing startup type work where you don't necessarily care about an enterprise support agreement so you can use one of the illumos derivatives. And when I say enterprise support agreement, I mean things like having the OS on your storage vendor support matrix/application support matrix/HBA support matrix/etc.
B. you can tolerate dealing with the devil and using Solaris proper with *shudder* Oracle "support".
For everyone else, while I agree this is a sad, sad imitation of Zones - at least it's a start.
How are you planning on acquiring those raw materials when they're all owned by a select few who have absolutely no incentive to share them? If they've already got all the money they could ever want, why would they bother selling it to you? In their ideal world you die, and they buy whatever pittance you own for pennies on the dollar.
You don't need to make it mandatory, you need to make it a holiday. You want people to vote, but you don't want them to vote badly enough to give them a day off work. I get holidays for religious ceremonies... but not you know: the most important day in any democracy.
If that were the case they'd limit it on everything, not just mobile GPUs. Clock speed is just one of the ways Nvidia differentiates cards, and is usually the one with the least overall effect. It's far easier and more effective to disable pipelines in the card's firmware. Plus it gives the added benefit of binning parts that have faulty hardware (you just turn off the faulty parts instead of throwing out the whole GPU). This isn't about "making people buy the most expensive card".
So you don't have an actual example then? Vague references aren't really helpful to having a meaningful discussion. In most circles what you're doing at this point would be considered FUD at best.
Funny you mention street lights and potholes. I've found anytime I've called to report a street light out, it gets replaced within 48 hours max. Potholes are generally a little slower, but within a week. The reason they generally go untouched is because people don't actually report it. They bitch and moan about it on their commute, but by the time they get home they can't be bothered to pick up the phone and let someone know.
If I get competition in the ISP space, tax away. Speakeasy DSL over Qwest lines was one of the greatest services I ever had, and it was competitive at the time. I remember how crestfallen I was when the government decided that next gen fiber and cable internet services wouldn't be title II, and as such, ISP's didn't have to lease their lines. If that hadn't been the case, we wouldn't even have to discuss whether or not it's OK for Comcast to double charge. The second they tried to do that, everyone would just switch to a different ISP.
Right... so you'd prefer they physically break your hardware rather than spit out an alert that you've got a counterfeit part and refuse to load the driver? Makes sense.
So if someone starts producing brake pads and putting Ford's logo on them, Ford's reaction should be to disable the brakes on my car? Not go after the person making forgeries? Makes perfect sense.
It's called trust but verify. I'd rather people get checked getting on AND off than just trust that wherever they came from did a proper job screening passengers.
1. I guess you should tell that to OP then, I was responding with terminology he chose. I just chose not to respond like a condescending douche. You should try it sometime.
2. No, that's not what causes a brain tumor. I'm glad you managed to garner some buzz words in your second year biology course, but you might want to crack that book back open.
I never claimed to "know so much about" the immune system. I guess your reading comprehension issues still persist. Now shoo troll, nobody cares.
Because every terminal illness causes a weakened immune system, right? If you're diagnosed with a brain tumor and given six months to live, you're likely still healthy, and your immune system is fully functioning. We aren't talking about sending full blown AIDS patients as a test group...
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You absolutely can modify the Linux kernel and still claim it's the Linux kernel. What on earth are you talking about? That happens literally every day.
"A trademark should not be used as part of your product name."
It would help if you quoted the appropriate trademark, which isn't any of the items listed on that page, it's this:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/legal/trademark/sublicense-agreement
And makes absolutely no mention of "not modifying the Linux source code" which would be a ridiculous requirement.
If trademark were enforced in the way you claim, Linux wouldn't exist. Nor would FreeBSD. Hell, PFSENSE wouldn't exist. I just don't buy that as the reasoning behind the actions that were taken.
As a user (still on pfsense) who watched it all go down, I'm going to scream BS. ESF basically shut down the build tools and went *COMPLETELY DARK* for almost two weeks as I recall it. Not responding to anybody, and basically saying "give us time to figure out what we're going to do". You guys were pissed that there were third parties selling hardware when that was your primary source of revenue, and nobody had any idea what your plans were.
After much outcry from the community, things slowly started opening back up. If nothing else, OPNsense seemed to kick the team in the ass to actually make a GUI that doesn't look like it's from the early 90s. I love pfsense, but this whole "we didn't do anything wrong, we have no idea why they reacted like that" is complete and utter bullshit. You guys made it very clear your intent was to stop other people from selling hardware using the PFsense logo/name, and were originally planning on making it EXTREMELY difficult for people to make customized builds of pfsense as a way to accomplish that.
Dell's last two attempts at storage - equallogic and compellent - have been complete and utter failures. Their portion of market share isn't even a rounding error. EMC would give them a legitimate play in storage, not even taking into account RSA and their other software products.
For literally decades MS has been getting lit up for all the botnets in the wild based off of unpatched Windows boxes. So, they finally do what everyone knows needed to be done, and force updates on home users, to ensure they get patched. And what does slashdot do when MS finally does what was asked of them? Bitches and moans that they don't want what they asked for. Let me guess "you should be able to easily disable it" - so that the first vulnerability that hits a Windows box turns updating off, and we're right back where we started. Am I a big fan of it? No. But I 100% get the reason for it.
If a 'rich fucker' lives in a house that is valued at twice the average value in their community, then they pay twice the property taxes to help fund public schools their 'average' neighbor pays. (There are no deductions or loopholes.) If that 'rich fucker' then turns around and enrolls their child in a private school they are 100% responsible for the tuition costs and get NO deduction or credit on their property taxes.
That depends ENTIRELY on the state. There are plenty of states that give the parents vouchers to send their kids to that private school. So no, they aren't 100% responsible for the tuition costs, and they do get a "deduction" or whatever you want to label it, in the form of a voucher.
The real motivation for change/improvement in public education will be school choice/vouchers - that will allow concerned parents to abandon failing public schools for better ones, and as failing schools are shuttered bad teachers can be weeded out of the system. Competition is healthy, the lack of serious competition is (contributing to) our currently failing public education system.
No, shitty parents are why our schools are failing. There's absolutely nothing a school can do to cope with parents who don't discipline their children, or make any attempt to help them with their homework. There are only so many hours in the day, and at some point a parent needs to be a parent. When all those "failing public schools" close down, and the state mandates private schools not turn children away, the same shitty parents with the same shitty kids will cause the same shitty problems in the private schools. You're delusional if you think otherwise. Unless of course you're advocating that private schools should be allowed to deny students access to an education after all of the public schools have shutdown. In which case you and your elitest worldview can pound fucking sand. When the poor revolt don't expect anyone to rise up and defend you.
They don't, they didn't go far enough.
Brazenly refusing to upgrade oversubscribed interconnects wasn't mismanagement. It was extortion.
That's great if you're either:
A. doing startup type work where you don't necessarily care about an enterprise support agreement so you can use one of the illumos derivatives. And when I say enterprise support agreement, I mean things like having the OS on your storage vendor support matrix/application support matrix/HBA support matrix/etc.
B. you can tolerate dealing with the devil and using Solaris proper with *shudder* Oracle "support".
For everyone else, while I agree this is a sad, sad imitation of Zones - at least it's a start.
How are you planning on acquiring those raw materials when they're all owned by a select few who have absolutely no incentive to share them? If they've already got all the money they could ever want, why would they bother selling it to you? In their ideal world you die, and they buy whatever pittance you own for pennies on the dollar.
You don't need to make it mandatory, you need to make it a holiday. You want people to vote, but you don't want them to vote badly enough to give them a day off work. I get holidays for religious ceremonies... but not you know: the most important day in any democracy.
If that were the case they'd limit it on everything, not just mobile GPUs. Clock speed is just one of the ways Nvidia differentiates cards, and is usually the one with the least overall effect. It's far easier and more effective to disable pipelines in the card's firmware. Plus it gives the added benefit of binning parts that have faulty hardware (you just turn off the faulty parts instead of throwing out the whole GPU). This isn't about "making people buy the most expensive card".
So you don't have an actual example then? Vague references aren't really helpful to having a meaningful discussion. In most circles what you're doing at this point would be considered FUD at best.
In what scenario would fsck help you with a ZFS filesystem? What is this "break" you speak of that fsck would fix?
How else are they going to pay for all those commercials they've been running during the playoffs? That ain't free!
Funny you mention street lights and potholes. I've found anytime I've called to report a street light out, it gets replaced within 48 hours max. Potholes are generally a little slower, but within a week. The reason they generally go untouched is because people don't actually report it. They bitch and moan about it on their commute, but by the time they get home they can't be bothered to pick up the phone and let someone know.
Yes, it has NOTHING to do with the disgusting margin they make on their flash upgrades.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2685232/why-the-entry-level-iphone-6-has-just-16gb-of-storage.html
If I get competition in the ISP space, tax away. Speakeasy DSL over Qwest lines was one of the greatest services I ever had, and it was competitive at the time. I remember how crestfallen I was when the government decided that next gen fiber and cable internet services wouldn't be title II, and as such, ISP's didn't have to lease their lines. If that hadn't been the case, we wouldn't even have to discuss whether or not it's OK for Comcast to double charge. The second they tried to do that, everyone would just switch to a different ISP.
Tell that to Todd Hoffner.
Right... so you'd prefer they physically break your hardware rather than spit out an alert that you've got a counterfeit part and refuse to load the driver? Makes sense.
So if someone starts producing brake pads and putting Ford's logo on them, Ford's reaction should be to disable the brakes on my car? Not go after the person making forgeries? Makes perfect sense.
It's called trust but verify. I'd rather people get checked getting on AND off than just trust that wherever they came from did a proper job screening passengers.
1. I guess you should tell that to OP then, I was responding with terminology he chose. I just chose not to respond like a condescending douche. You should try it sometime.
2. No, that's not what causes a brain tumor. I'm glad you managed to garner some buzz words in your second year biology course, but you might want to crack that book back open.
I never claimed to "know so much about" the immune system. I guess your reading comprehension issues still persist. Now shoo troll, nobody cares.
Because every terminal illness causes a weakened immune system, right? If you're diagnosed with a brain tumor and given six months to live, you're likely still healthy, and your immune system is fully functioning. We aren't talking about sending full blown AIDS patients as a test group...