Fighter pilots aren't 16. They are college-educated military officers who have had several years of driving behind them to get used to operating a large death machine, followed by extensive classroom training and instructor-led seat time before they are allowed to operate the jet solo. Additionally, they have simulators with which to get used to monitoring all necessary instrumentation as well as keeping an eye out for enemy planes.
High school kids cannot be compared to fighter pilots in any meaningful way with regards to the ability to safely operate a large machine with multiple points of distraction, on public roads, surrounded by other drives of various skills and levels of distraction.
This is also not the first time Linus has had a publicized explosion at someone, and it probably won't be the last, either. This really is the sort of behavior that ultimately detracts from the open source community. Consider:
* Linus' track record of explosive, public comments against people whom he has some disagreement with * Stallman's general Communist ramblings and presentation of himself as a disheveled bum * type "Eric S Raymond" into Google, and the first suggestion is "Racist", not CatB, not How to be a Hacker, not any of his code.
Is Torvalds right? In this case, probably. There isn't a reason to include this functionality in the base kernel. If it is useful to RedHat, then RedHat can include it in their distribution. But publicly attacking someone, especially someone working for a company which is largely responsible for making Linux "respectable" isn't doing himself, the project, or the community at large any good, any more than Ballmer throwing chairs and screaming "Developers" or the "Howard Dean Scream" helped Microsoft or Howard Dean.
Take the majority of the stripping money, invest with a reputable wealth management firm, and get to the point where it doesn't matter because working at all isn't an issue anymore?
For the women who didn't make the career choice to go into the adult industry, ie, those who have been kidnapped/trafficked and forced to appear in films, they have bigger issues than the harm to their "civil rights" stemming from the film. Kidnapping and rape are, I assume, already illegal in Iceland. Filming it is then just creating documented evidence of that crime. Making ALL porn illegal because SOME porn is documentation of a REAL crime makes about as much sense as making guns illegal because criminal commit crimes with guns. Of course, Iceland's probably already done that too.
Or, to bring out a car analogy, it's like studying automotive and mechanical engineering, but then rather than applying to work at BMW or Porsche, you then go and sign up to work at Jiffy Lube. But some day, you might get to be assistant manager!
I didn't say that it was based off 5.4, although I see how it sounded like that. The use of Fedora has a technical staging ground is in large part why there is no simple upgrade path to 6.x from 5.x.
6.0 broke off around 5.4, but had a lot of newer stuff in the base. However, security updates and maintenance patches are still released for the 5.x series because, frankly, getting what you need on the system you already have is a lot easier than changing a whole lot just to get something you might want. Sure, on the privacy of your own workstation or non-production server, jumping major versions is no big deal, but on a production server, it can often times be more trouble than its worth.
Essentially, if you don't know why you should be interested in 5.9, you're not the target market for 5.9.
If by "ignore the loophole" you mean recognize the fact that more legislation isn't going to prevent people from breaking current legislation, then yes. Basing your argument around a single undercover video would be like trying to claim that all community organizations are fraud-based purveyors of hooker lodging and communism based on the ACORN "sting".
Have you ever been to a gun show? I've been to many. I have bought at them before, and I can tell you that I had to have a background check every time, even though I held a concealed carry permit in the state. One vendor wouldn't sell me an AR-15 with the previously banned features because I didn't have a voter card or passport to prove I was a citizen (this, again, despite the fact that my family has been in the country since the 1600s and I am whiter than Mitt Romney). That was in 2007.
Requiring private individuals to do background checks on each other prior to private sale is going to be impossible to enforce without creating a national registry of ownership, requiring notifying the ATF whenever you make a sale/transfer, etc. I can tell you right now that shit isn't going to pass the house, even though it is likely what Biden's "task force" will come up with.
However, I am straying from the point: that FFL dealers at gun shows are already legally required to do background checks. If one individual didn't do it, then that one individual is a criminal. It doesn't expose a "vulnerability" or a "loophole", it just identifies a criminal.
Trademarks are domain-specific, like how actual windows can still be called windows and Microsoft can't sue over Windows. The use of the term "open source" for intelligence information (OSINT) is as old as dirt and is used to differentiate between sources such as news papers/party organs/etc and information attained through clandestine means, either human intelligence (HUMINT) or signals intelligence (SIGINT). Nothing to get upset about. It's not like the article said he used "the well known, open-source hacker tool Linux..."
I think his comment was really more about the media than about the Democrat party. If we ignore the outliers of Fox and MSNBC, the majority of news channels are more-or-less "moderate," but have differing degrees of editorial bias. Noticing bias is easier when "your side" is the one on the receiving end of it, but even on moderate channels/papers, there is a fair bit of a slant, generally in favor of the Democratic party or issues which the Democrats support, if not the party itself.
On many issues I am right-of-center (economics, guns, etc) and on many others I'm left-of-center ("gay rights", pot, etc). My main news sources are CNN, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Slashdot. Getting a good mix helps to be able to call out the bullshit and get as close to objective as possible and when you do that it is much easier to notice subtle biases, especially in attempts to frame an issue (is someone "pro-choice" or "pro-abortion"? a "gun rights advocate" or a "gun nut"?). I will say that on the majority of issues, the media, by and large, tends to lean towards the position which the Democrats take. Excepting MSNBC and Fox, I would give the benefit of the doubt that it isn't because of blatant attempts to tow a party line.
Frankly, if people are too lazy or disinterested to go try another web browser for themselves after the fact, I doubt they're going to know the difference, or care, when they have 5 options presented to them during an installation process they probably didn't go through since they bought a PC with the OS already installed and configured. I definitely don't think it is a $7 billion question. I doubt there is anything close to $7bn worth of equity in web browsers. They're all given away for free, except the less obnoxious version of Opera (which still sucks, but it's a European product and is probably what this whole thing is really about). These are definitely punitive damages and not compensatory damages, and thus are inherently political. It doesn't matter if it is a drop in the bucket of the aggregate GDP of EU countries -- no one said they were planning on funding their governance with this.
And of course, I doubt we'll see any judgements against Apple for only providing Safari any time soon, and the fact that they only provide Safari didn't stop me from getting Firefox on my MBP. The fact that my Thinkpad came with Windows and thus IE, plus Lenovo-installed Chrome didn't stop me from going to downloading Firefox. And *GHASP* I managed to adjust my browser selection on my Linux workstation in my office, too.
Maybe it's just that I'm not 14 anymore like I was when I opened this account, but I just don't really take glee anymore in watching MS get bashed around for what amounts to petty crap. It's just a damned web browser.
In my Freshman year of HS, I took Honors Biology. In my Sophomore year, I took Honors Chemistry. In my Junior year I took AP Biology, which had a lecture and a lab and counted for more credits. Half way through my first semester of my senior year, I was called in by guidance to tell me that I didn't have enough science credit and that I would have to ditch my Journalism class, which I was actually interested in, and pick up either Physics or Earth Science (aka, Rocks for Jocks). I wasn't about to switch into a physics class taught by a PhD from Stanford with an undergrad from MIT who used to work at NASA Langley -- my friends in there, who were all also the AP/Honors/Gifted types said there was a wicked grading curve because his class was really hard. I would have been at a major disadvantage coming in.
Instead, I took Earth Science. I came in with a test on the first day, and the teacher said I wouldn't have to take it. I did anyway, and still got a 98% (the 2% I missed was the result of some argument about the coloring in of a graph, which was total BS). I ended up getting a 104% average in that class, but I didn't really get anything out of it that I hadn't already learned because I was interested on my own, although I had no plans of being a geologist ever. I would have gotten more out of being allowed to take the Journalism class to its completion, but the school said I couldn't, or I wouldn't be able to graduate, despite having already been accepted to every school I applied to, because god forbid I don't learn the difference between magma and lava, in my geologically inert east coast state.
Frankly, I don't think chemistry should be mandatory. I think a critical thinking class should be mandatory, but let's be honest -- not everyone is going to be a scientist or engineer. Not everyone is destined for college or will do well there. Most people will never grow up to be President. That just doesn't happen, and beyond the requisite skills in literacy and math which the average person will need to get on in society, there really isn't a whole lot to be gained by forcing someone destined for a degree in classical philology or whatever the kids are into these days, to study something they really don't want to and will more than likely never need in their adult life.
I used to work for a web hosting company. Some of our customers had one or more dedicated servers and reseller agreements with us. However, if there was a hardware failure, power issue, network issue, etc, their customers might complain the to them, but they complained to us. It doesn't take any work at all to rent a server in someone else's colo with WHM/cPanel on it and make end user accounts with click-to-install WordPress.
However, the reseller doesn't have physical access to the machine, doesn't own the network pipe, and is at the mercy of the actual hosting provider, just like the hosting provider is at the mercy of their ISP and the colo provider, unless they own all that infrastructure, too. Nothing is ever as simple as "host it yourself" if you want the rest of the world to be able to access it.
Those of us in the low-digit club, and Slashdotters in general, are not really indicative of the general population when it comes to telecommunications. Most people won't know what a T1 is, let alone what to do with it in step 2. My point is that all of this is a major investment in time and money that most people don't want to make. Renting a dedicated server or VPS is in almost all cases good enough for people who just want to run their wordpress installation, never update it, and leave their uploads directory world-writable.
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secession maybe, succession not so much.
Fighter pilots aren't 16. They are college-educated military officers who have had several years of driving behind them to get used to operating a large death machine, followed by extensive classroom training and instructor-led seat time before they are allowed to operate the jet solo. Additionally, they have simulators with which to get used to monitoring all necessary instrumentation as well as keeping an eye out for enemy planes.
High school kids cannot be compared to fighter pilots in any meaningful way with regards to the ability to safely operate a large machine with multiple points of distraction, on public roads, surrounded by other drives of various skills and levels of distraction.
At that point, it almost sounds like kidnapping for ransom...
This is also not the first time Linus has had a publicized explosion at someone, and it probably won't be the last, either. This really is the sort of behavior that ultimately detracts from the open source community. Consider:
* Linus' track record of explosive, public comments against people whom he has some disagreement with
* Stallman's general Communist ramblings and presentation of himself as a disheveled bum
* type "Eric S Raymond" into Google, and the first suggestion is "Racist", not CatB, not How to be a Hacker, not any of his code.
Is Torvalds right? In this case, probably. There isn't a reason to include this functionality in the base kernel. If it is useful to RedHat, then RedHat can include it in their distribution. But publicly attacking someone, especially someone working for a company which is largely responsible for making Linux "respectable" isn't doing himself, the project, or the community at large any good, any more than Ballmer throwing chairs and screaming "Developers" or the "Howard Dean Scream" helped Microsoft or Howard Dean.
Take the majority of the stripping money, invest with a reputable wealth management firm, and get to the point where it doesn't matter because working at all isn't an issue anymore?
For the women who didn't make the career choice to go into the adult industry, ie, those who have been kidnapped/trafficked and forced to appear in films, they have bigger issues than the harm to their "civil rights" stemming from the film. Kidnapping and rape are, I assume, already illegal in Iceland. Filming it is then just creating documented evidence of that crime. Making ALL porn illegal because SOME porn is documentation of a REAL crime makes about as much sense as making guns illegal because criminal commit crimes with guns. Of course, Iceland's probably already done that too.
Or, to bring out a car analogy, it's like studying automotive and mechanical engineering, but then rather than applying to work at BMW or Porsche, you then go and sign up to work at Jiffy Lube. But some day, you might get to be assistant manager!
Ron Paul was a member of the House. Rand Paul, his son, is the Senator from Kentucky.
Well, for some people, their "normal" is pretty terrible and anything that can help them escape it is worth it.
Well, one thing's for sure: He was clearly hoping to avoid wide-spread notice of his move or he would have chosen a different venue.
I didn't say that it was based off 5.4, although I see how it sounded like that. The use of Fedora has a technical staging ground is in large part why there is no simple upgrade path to 6.x from 5.x.
6.0 broke off around 5.4, but had a lot of newer stuff in the base. However, security updates and maintenance patches are still released for the 5.x series because, frankly, getting what you need on the system you already have is a lot easier than changing a whole lot just to get something you might want. Sure, on the privacy of your own workstation or non-production server, jumping major versions is no big deal, but on a production server, it can often times be more trouble than its worth.
Essentially, if you don't know why you should be interested in 5.9, you're not the target market for 5.9.
I feel like Hans Reiser must have had a hand in this one.
And yet, he's worried about the government of British Honduras coming after him instead. Talk about out of touch!
Try setting it ti 'murrican and see if it turns out differently
If by "ignore the loophole" you mean recognize the fact that more legislation isn't going to prevent people from breaking current legislation, then yes. Basing your argument around a single undercover video would be like trying to claim that all community organizations are fraud-based purveyors of hooker lodging and communism based on the ACORN "sting".
Have you ever been to a gun show? I've been to many. I have bought at them before, and I can tell you that I had to have a background check every time, even though I held a concealed carry permit in the state. One vendor wouldn't sell me an AR-15 with the previously banned features because I didn't have a voter card or passport to prove I was a citizen (this, again, despite the fact that my family has been in the country since the 1600s and I am whiter than Mitt Romney). That was in 2007.
Requiring private individuals to do background checks on each other prior to private sale is going to be impossible to enforce without creating a national registry of ownership, requiring notifying the ATF whenever you make a sale/transfer, etc. I can tell you right now that shit isn't going to pass the house, even though it is likely what Biden's "task force" will come up with.
However, I am straying from the point: that FFL dealers at gun shows are already legally required to do background checks. If one individual didn't do it, then that one individual is a criminal. It doesn't expose a "vulnerability" or a "loophole", it just identifies a criminal.
Davis W. Moore, "Open Sources on Soviet Military Affairs," Studies in Intelligence (Summer 1963-declassified article)
Herman L. Croom, "The Exploitation of Foreign Open Sources," Studies in Intelligence (Summer 1969-declassified article)
So, the term as applied goes back at least to the 60s. It has just become more common in the last 10-15 years or so.
Trademarks are domain-specific, like how actual windows can still be called windows and Microsoft can't sue over Windows. The use of the term "open source" for intelligence information (OSINT) is as old as dirt and is used to differentiate between sources such as news papers/party organs/etc and information attained through clandestine means, either human intelligence (HUMINT) or signals intelligence (SIGINT). Nothing to get upset about. It's not like the article said he used "the well known, open-source hacker tool Linux..."
Out of mod points or I'd correct this... whoever modded this flamebait doesn't recall the ship-board fight at the start of Last Crusade.
If he says Tony Danza, just get up and walk away.
I think his comment was really more about the media than about the Democrat party. If we ignore the outliers of Fox and MSNBC, the majority of news channels are more-or-less "moderate," but have differing degrees of editorial bias. Noticing bias is easier when "your side" is the one on the receiving end of it, but even on moderate channels/papers, there is a fair bit of a slant, generally in favor of the Democratic party or issues which the Democrats support, if not the party itself.
On many issues I am right-of-center (economics, guns, etc) and on many others I'm left-of-center ("gay rights", pot, etc). My main news sources are CNN, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Slashdot. Getting a good mix helps to be able to call out the bullshit and get as close to objective as possible and when you do that it is much easier to notice subtle biases, especially in attempts to frame an issue (is someone "pro-choice" or "pro-abortion"? a "gun rights advocate" or a "gun nut"?). I will say that on the majority of issues, the media, by and large, tends to lean towards the position which the Democrats take. Excepting MSNBC and Fox, I would give the benefit of the doubt that it isn't because of blatant attempts to tow a party line.
Frankly, if people are too lazy or disinterested to go try another web browser for themselves after the fact, I doubt they're going to know the difference, or care, when they have 5 options presented to them during an installation process they probably didn't go through since they bought a PC with the OS already installed and configured. I definitely don't think it is a $7 billion question. I doubt there is anything close to $7bn worth of equity in web browsers. They're all given away for free, except the less obnoxious version of Opera (which still sucks, but it's a European product and is probably what this whole thing is really about). These are definitely punitive damages and not compensatory damages, and thus are inherently political. It doesn't matter if it is a drop in the bucket of the aggregate GDP of EU countries -- no one said they were planning on funding their governance with this.
And of course, I doubt we'll see any judgements against Apple for only providing Safari any time soon, and the fact that they only provide Safari didn't stop me from getting Firefox on my MBP. The fact that my Thinkpad came with Windows and thus IE, plus Lenovo-installed Chrome didn't stop me from going to downloading Firefox. And *GHASP* I managed to adjust my browser selection on my Linux workstation in my office, too.
Maybe it's just that I'm not 14 anymore like I was when I opened this account, but I just don't really take glee anymore in watching MS get bashed around for what amounts to petty crap. It's just a damned web browser.
My personal experience:
In my Freshman year of HS, I took Honors Biology. In my Sophomore year, I took Honors Chemistry. In my Junior year I took AP Biology, which had a lecture and a lab and counted for more credits. Half way through my first semester of my senior year, I was called in by guidance to tell me that I didn't have enough science credit and that I would have to ditch my Journalism class, which I was actually interested in, and pick up either Physics or Earth Science (aka, Rocks for Jocks). I wasn't about to switch into a physics class taught by a PhD from Stanford with an undergrad from MIT who used to work at NASA Langley -- my friends in there, who were all also the AP/Honors/Gifted types said there was a wicked grading curve because his class was really hard. I would have been at a major disadvantage coming in.
Instead, I took Earth Science. I came in with a test on the first day, and the teacher said I wouldn't have to take it. I did anyway, and still got a 98% (the 2% I missed was the result of some argument about the coloring in of a graph, which was total BS). I ended up getting a 104% average in that class, but I didn't really get anything out of it that I hadn't already learned because I was interested on my own, although I had no plans of being a geologist ever. I would have gotten more out of being allowed to take the Journalism class to its completion, but the school said I couldn't, or I wouldn't be able to graduate, despite having already been accepted to every school I applied to, because god forbid I don't learn the difference between magma and lava, in my geologically inert east coast state.
Frankly, I don't think chemistry should be mandatory. I think a critical thinking class should be mandatory, but let's be honest -- not everyone is going to be a scientist or engineer. Not everyone is destined for college or will do well there. Most people will never grow up to be President. That just doesn't happen, and beyond the requisite skills in literacy and math which the average person will need to get on in society, there really isn't a whole lot to be gained by forcing someone destined for a degree in classical philology or whatever the kids are into these days, to study something they really don't want to and will more than likely never need in their adult life.
I used to work for a web hosting company. Some of our customers had one or more dedicated servers and reseller agreements with us. However, if there was a hardware failure, power issue, network issue, etc, their customers might complain the to them, but they complained to us. It doesn't take any work at all to rent a server in someone else's colo with WHM/cPanel on it and make end user accounts with click-to-install WordPress.
However, the reseller doesn't have physical access to the machine, doesn't own the network pipe, and is at the mercy of the actual hosting provider, just like the hosting provider is at the mercy of their ISP and the colo provider, unless they own all that infrastructure, too. Nothing is ever as simple as "host it yourself" if you want the rest of the world to be able to access it.
Those of us in the low-digit club, and Slashdotters in general, are not really indicative of the general population when it comes to telecommunications. Most people won't know what a T1 is, let alone what to do with it in step 2. My point is that all of this is a major investment in time and money that most people don't want to make. Renting a dedicated server or VPS is in almost all cases good enough for people who just want to run their wordpress installation, never update it, and leave their uploads directory world-writable.