It should not, indeed it must not matter that Firefox loads data from a dodgy website. It has to be safe to read it, render it and run the Javascript.
Because if it isn't then the browser is doomed to be cracked and exploited anyway. Attackers can break into "safe" websites and put their scripts there. Or buy advertisements to their malware.
So all the worry over loading links from untrusted sites is foolish because you cannot trust ANY site on the Internet. Not really.
There's a better argument to be made over the privacy implications.
It would only involve porting all of the internal kernel changes, driver support, DLLs, etc.
So then what, you'd have Windows 10 with a XP shell on top. Yay.
It would be almost exactly like porting DRI3 from Fedora 22 back to RHEL 5. You merely need to recompile kernel, glibc, Xorg, glib, gtk, gnome and KDE.
I'm sure Linus has systemd opinions but I doubt he can answer "Why" because he didn't write it. Linux the kernel doesn't care what you run as init. It can run/bin/sh as init (sort of).
And what if they did have a serious underground baby sitting ring? I could see one teenager acting as a coordinator, taking a 10% referral cut from each deal. One such teenager, acting as the manager for all of his or her friends, handling schedules and such, could exceed the levels easily.
And if you don't think teenagers can handle business and money like that then you haven't heard about high school drug dealers.
But my point about babysitters was that they are an example of the cash economy. Other work often paid in cash is lawn care, snow removal, food trucks, computer repair, auto maintenance, handy-man work of all kinds.
A lot of time those jobs are done off the books and the cash is used for entertainment spending, like beer.
Any rules or restrictions on a Basic Income plan are a bad idea because checking and enforcing those rules needs a big bureaucracy with investigators and enforcers. I can see an immediate cheat already of just working off the books for cash, thus being "unemployed." More than a third of the US economy is already untaxed cash transactions. (Seriously, who pays teen babysitters in anything but cash? And do you think that they track it and pay taxes on it?) No need to make it more.
Just pay everyone the exact same amount and save all the money you'd otherwise spend on making rules.
I agree. Linux has stayed focused on code. Code that works. The questions are always about what problem does it solve, what does it do better, is it faster, is it backward compatible...
Oh yes. I am so sure that your test plans include such unlikely things as your customers deciding to run your app on a Pentium III with no SSE support. That's when you discover that the compiler settings are defaulted for SSE support. Or you discover that a shared memory file is being used by an old software version and a new software version at the same time, resulting in disagreements about exactly what should be locked when. Or maybe you find out that if a customer opens more than 1024 file descriptors your app starts to get silent memory corruption and eventually crashes. (POSIX, select(), FD_SET with fds higher than FD_SETSIZE). Did you check every single POSIX resource limit before using the system libraries? Did you do it correctly?
You can have 100% test coverage and still fail in the real world because of issues with the hardware, libraries and operating system.
You surely must realize that the real world contains so many possible ways to break software that you can't possibly test them all. At some point you just have to go for it.
To ask how that tax has been recast as the murder of all that's American (think of the family farms!!!! what family farms?)
So because the tax system has succeeded in destroying most of America's family farms it's OK now because there aren't any left? Huh?
I think it's ridiculous that most of the family farms left have had to incorporate, hire accountanting firms and use all the sneaky tricks just to stay in business and keep their land. The estate tax burden is a lot less on 1/6th of a farm when a stockholder dies and it's easier to get loans to cover it.
Also beware of statistics because some sources like to say family farms have vanished and all that's left is corporate farming. Are they counting family owned corporations as family or corporate?
Deductions are important for anyone who is in business. If businesses (from one person muffin bakers, to 1,000 people factories) cannot deduct business expenses then that leads directly into heavy pressure to vertically integrate by buying suppliers and sellers. Until the only businesses that can compete are the Exxons and Conacos who own the oil rigs, the refineries, the pipelines, the trucks and the gas stations.
Otherwise each sale between business entities incurrs a 10% flat tax.
So here we have security vendors trying YET AGAIN to hold back progress in Internet protocols. They did it with window scaling, ECN and IPv6. Each new invention doesn't work with their snake oil so they either disable it or tell people not to use it.
They like to lock down HTTP too, preventing anything that doesn't "look right." As if a server would respond to PUT or OPTION if it didn't intend to support that.
Software that monitors the traffic for unusual patterns or attack patterns is not a firewall. It is an IDS (or IPS depending on configuration) such as Snort.
Consumer desktop PCs have "antivirus" software which is a combination of firewall, IDS, antivirus and other malware detection systems. Enterprise network admins have firewall, IDS, NAT, and many other systems with each one configured separately.
Network admins have many words for things like Eskimos do for snow because precision is important.
Or since I apparently can't edit and my memory is faulty, the definitions of the words that make up "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;"
But how do you know which parts are relevant to you?
I mean, you might think a little thing like the Constitution is perfectly clear when it lays out the rules for regulating interstate commerce. I bet you didn't know that growing wheat on your own small farm and eating it yourself is interstate commerce.
I was wrong about XP needing to map all 3 GB of video RAM.
It is more accurate to say that Windows XP limits the GPU to a 256 MB window. The GPU would perform a lot better if all of its memory was mapped for direct access.
The newer pieces of GPU hardware and drivers are using zero-copy direct memory access with addressing that is the same on the GPU and the CPU which allows sharing of data structures without copies or modifications. That can't be done in a 256 MB window, or if it can, not well.
Just saw the bit about epoxy. MAYBE the keyboard started out epoxied in place but when I saw it it sure wasn't. IT needs to put in a new keyboard, they probably chipped it out and replaced it. Not much would stop the user from doing that either.
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It should not, indeed it must not matter that Firefox loads data from a dodgy website. It has to be safe to read it, render it and run the Javascript.
Because if it isn't then the browser is doomed to be cracked and exploited anyway. Attackers can break into "safe" websites and put their scripts there. Or buy advertisements to their malware.
So all the worry over loading links from untrusted sites is foolish because you cannot trust ANY site on the Internet. Not really.
There's a better argument to be made over the privacy implications.
Oh sure, why not backport DX12 to XP.
It would only involve porting all of the internal kernel changes, driver support, DLLs, etc.
So then what, you'd have Windows 10 with a XP shell on top. Yay.
It would be almost exactly like porting DRI3 from Fedora 22 back to RHEL 5. You merely need to recompile kernel, glibc, Xorg, glib, gtk, gnome and KDE.
Get right on that.
Compressed log files? Binary files, unrecoverable if they experience data corruption.
XML like tags? Structured data tagging. Also markers for resync in case of data corruption.
In fact, not very different from the systemd journal.
What big new feature or driver do you want to see added to Linux next?
I'm sure Linus has systemd opinions but I doubt he can answer "Why" because he didn't write it. Linux the kernel doesn't care what you run as init. It can run /bin/sh as init (sort of).
And what if they did have a serious underground baby sitting ring? I could see one teenager acting as a coordinator, taking a 10% referral cut from each deal. One such teenager, acting as the manager for all of his or her friends, handling schedules and such, could exceed the levels easily.
And if you don't think teenagers can handle business and money like that then you haven't heard about high school drug dealers.
But my point about babysitters was that they are an example of the cash economy. Other work often paid in cash is lawn care, snow removal, food trucks, computer repair, auto maintenance, handy-man work of all kinds.
A lot of time those jobs are done off the books and the cash is used for entertainment spending, like beer.
Any rules or restrictions on a Basic Income plan are a bad idea because checking and enforcing those rules needs a big bureaucracy with investigators and enforcers. I can see an immediate cheat already of just working off the books for cash, thus being "unemployed." More than a third of the US economy is already untaxed cash transactions. (Seriously, who pays teen babysitters in anything but cash? And do you think that they track it and pay taxes on it?) No need to make it more.
Just pay everyone the exact same amount and save all the money you'd otherwise spend on making rules.
I agree. Linux has stayed focused on code. Code that works. The questions are always about what problem does it solve, what does it do better, is it faster, is it backward compatible...
Let me guess...
You buy the cheapest panels available and drive them from a VGA port.
Oh yes. I am so sure that your test plans include such unlikely things as your customers deciding to run your app on a Pentium III with no SSE support. That's when you discover that the compiler settings are defaulted for SSE support. Or you discover that a shared memory file is being used by an old software version and a new software version at the same time, resulting in disagreements about exactly what should be locked when. Or maybe you find out that if a customer opens more than 1024 file descriptors your app starts to get silent memory corruption and eventually crashes. (POSIX, select(), FD_SET with fds higher than FD_SETSIZE). Did you check every single POSIX resource limit before using the system libraries? Did you do it correctly?
You can have 100% test coverage and still fail in the real world because of issues with the hardware, libraries and operating system.
You surely must realize that the real world contains so many possible ways to break software that you can't possibly test them all. At some point you just have to go for it.
The kernel parts have always been free under GPL2.
The part of this that is worth money is creating patches to apply with this system. Patches that won't crash the machine or corrupt data.
Or that's how I think the headlines should read.
To ask how that tax has been recast as the murder of all that's American (think of the family farms!!!! what family farms?)
So because the tax system has succeeded in destroying most of America's family farms it's OK now because there aren't any left? Huh?
I think it's ridiculous that most of the family farms left have had to incorporate, hire accountanting firms and use all the sneaky tricks just to stay in business and keep their land. The estate tax burden is a lot less on 1/6th of a farm when a stockholder dies and it's easier to get loans to cover it.
Also beware of statistics because some sources like to say family farms have vanished and all that's left is corporate farming. Are they counting family owned corporations as family or corporate?
Does income inequality actually matter though?
If Person A makes a million dollars a year but lives exactly the same lifestyle as Person B who makes $100,000 a year, does it matter?
It seems to me that no one would know or CARE if Person A has $100 million in investments and bank accounts if he lives just like everyone else.
So it is really more of a lifestyle inequality that makes people upset.
Deductions are important for anyone who is in business. If businesses (from one person muffin bakers, to 1,000 people factories) cannot deduct business expenses then that leads directly into heavy pressure to vertically integrate by buying suppliers and sellers. Until the only businesses that can compete are the Exxons and Conacos who own the oil rigs, the refineries, the pipelines, the trucks and the gas stations.
Otherwise each sale between business entities incurrs a 10% flat tax.
Finally the Linux kernel which runs almost the entire Internet is as secure as my MMORPG accounts. About time. :P
So here we have security vendors trying YET AGAIN to hold back progress in Internet protocols. They did it with window scaling, ECN and IPv6. Each new invention doesn't work with their snake oil so they either disable it or tell people not to use it.
They like to lock down HTTP too, preventing anything that doesn't "look right." As if a server would respond to PUT or OPTION if it didn't intend to support that.
Software that monitors the traffic for unusual patterns or attack patterns is not a firewall. It is an IDS (or IPS depending on configuration) such as Snort.
Consumer desktop PCs have "antivirus" software which is a combination of firewall, IDS, antivirus and other malware detection systems. Enterprise network admins have firewall, IDS, NAT, and many other systems with each one configured separately.
Network admins have many words for things like Eskimos do for snow because precision is important.
What about oil paintings? Didn't a lot of the Old Masters paint nudes? I bet some of them broke up with the subjects of the painting too.
I love it when people who don't know anything about networking invent solutions to problems. As if actual IETF engineers were all idiots.
Or since I apparently can't edit and my memory is faulty, the definitions of the words that make up "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;"
Because of the definitions of inter, state, and commerce.
But how do you know which parts are relevant to you?
I mean, you might think a little thing like the Constitution is perfectly clear when it lays out the rules for regulating interstate commerce. I bet you didn't know that growing wheat on your own small farm and eating it yourself is interstate commerce.
I was wrong about XP needing to map all 3 GB of video RAM.
It is more accurate to say that Windows XP limits the GPU to a 256 MB window. The GPU would perform a lot better if all of its memory was mapped for direct access.
The newer pieces of GPU hardware and drivers are using zero-copy direct memory access with addressing that is the same on the GPU and the CPU which allows sharing of data structures without copies or modifications. That can't be done in a 256 MB window, or if it can, not well.
Just saw the bit about epoxy. MAYBE the keyboard started out epoxied in place but when I saw it it sure wasn't. IT needs to put in a new keyboard, they probably chipped it out and replaced it. Not much would stop the user from doing that either.