The thing with induction plates is that the central components (power capacitors, switch, coil) must be high-quality, or the whole thing goes up in smoke very fast. Hence they have inherent long lifetime. Of course, manufacturers do not want that, they want people to buy new stuff, not use old stuff forever. What they do is add artificial weak points. Sometime you can find and fix them, and I did so for a generic induction plate.
This plate has a 235V rectifier whose leads are pressing against an aluminum heat-sink. The leads are insulated with PVC-tubing that has a limited lifetime, even more so when heated up, which it is here. When it gets brittle, it stops insulating well, shortening out and blowing the non-replaceable fuse and likely other components. My fix was to saw out the piece of the heat sink that they pressed against. It should also work to replace the tubing with silicone-glass-cloth insulation tubing that has a very long lifetime. While the circuit has some electrolyte capacitors as well, they were all good quality 105C types and should live a long time. They should also not damage the circuit when they fail and hence can be replaced at need.
Well, if googelig "jessie without systemd" and then reading about 10 lines in the debian wiki is too much effort for you, then you are right that it is "too difficult". On any competence level above "incometent" this should however be acceptable, and it requires neither dangerous commands, nor even looking at any non-Debian documentation.
Sure, that the installed does not offer it is a valid concern and I have criticized that in the past rather strongly. However claiming that it is hard or risky to get Debian to run without systemd is just opening up oneself to ridicule, because it is not. Now, if you want to remove udev to have no trace from the systemd-complex left, that would be somewhat difficult, but getting rid of systemd itself is not.
Make no misrtake, I am very much opposed to the default an the missing alternative in the installer, as I think systemd is not ready for prime-time, not universal enough to be the default and has some rather questionable software engineering decision it it. But attacking it with wrong claims is not going to work well.
Well, that arrogant and condescending fucker has not place in my universe. As for you, just like anybody else with some marbles missing upstairs, I can just ignore you.
Seriously, that is just uninformed bullshit. You can, for example, install a current Debian without systemd being active without too much trouble. In fact, for every server where you need reliability and security, it is a really good idea to do so as systemd sabotages both due to bad software engineering on all levels. Sure, if you want all trace of it to be gone, you may have to do without some not very good software like Gnome, but that is not really an issue.Gnome (and KDE) are pretty much redundant and catering to those with weak skills anyways.
I can only conclude that you are one of the utterly dishonrorable proaganda-shills for systemd and mean to push the idea that you cannot escape getting fucked by it, so you better bend over and take it. Not so.
Or would the OP claim that mathematics is not science? That would be rather stupid. String theory, as a mathematical theory, is very obviously science. Mathematical theory does not care about applicability to any real universe. String theory as a possible model of the physical universe is science as well. What string theory is not is a known-good model of the physical universe due to the lack of verification of its applicability. That this verification may be impossible has no impact of its status as science.
Sure, if verification is actually not possible at all then it is not science that has useful applications, because that also would mean it cannot be used for predictions (that being one of the ways to verify whether a model does apply to reality).
I should also point out that both Quantum Theory and Relativity, the two foundations of modern phsics, are neither complete nor completely verified to be accurate. In fact, history would suggest that at some time in the future, both will have to replaced by more refined theories as there is a good chance that when trying to verify the currently unverified aspects, effects will be found that do not quite fit into them as they currently are. That does not make them useless. Classical mechanics is known to be wrong, yet very useful. You just need to known under which conditions it becomes inaccurate enough to matter.
Are you really dumb enough to assume anybody criticizing capitalism wants that version of socialism as alternative? That requires a really, really limited view of the world.
They are used in large parts of the world. For example, an ICE is entirely self-driving above 160km/h, the operator can only trigger an emergency-brake. The US is just completely stuck in the past here.
Very, very unlikely. I am just pointing out that they could be secure against that threat if they chose so. Of course that costs money, hence they will not. In real-world capitalism, companies will produce the shoddiest quality they can get away with.
In comparison what I hear here on/. Germany has a relatively low fluctuation in workers. A bit higher in employees, but bottom line it is very low. Ofc that is not true for unskilled labour like an over the counter seller in a bakery.
In addition, that German "over the counter seller in a bakery" will have three years of job-specific education ("Baeckereifachverkaeufer") and will not be easily replaceable either. Sure, there will be some unskilled labor there, but only under supervision or while being qualified.
The only resource that has long-term durability is a well educated and qualified population. Of course, that makes conning people (the core skill of politicians) much harder, so there always is a desire to make the population dumber by those in power. That kills a country long-term, but those in power usually are in it only for themselves, so they do not care.
Indeed. The US may cover-up the steady decline and cling to a fantasy of superiority for a while longer by extending the police-state and then going into full fascism. But eventually, it is doomed. Going to a country that is still in ascent is starting lower, but seeing things get better over time. Much more desirable.
That is "agitation scientist"! Agitation engineers will soon face unemployment, as those jobs will go overseas. Indian tech support has been training for this new opportunity for years, as everybody that ever talked to them knows.
What, have you not heard we are going to colonize Mars and then the rest of the Universe? Growth forever!
</sarcasm>
Seriously, I fully agree. I think the US has peaked some 10-15 years ago, with the EU 10 years behind. It is now either stability or decline. The US seems to have opted for decline and the EU seems to want to follow that model.
Kids: Go into coding only if you enjoy it _and_ are good at it. Put CS studies on top. In that case you will have decent opportunities and decent pay. All the mediocre and bad coders (and there are a lot out there, as they are the vast majority) will become working poor in the near future.
Excellent point. The only way besides full source and HW spec access I see, is treating things like the 802.11ac components as "hostile, likely compromised" in the system design. That makes things more expensive, of course.
That depends. If they think they can get away with it, they will have somebody corrupt do the audit. That is then one security company with a potential reputation problem. But exactly because of that effect, they may actually not be able to get anybody both reputable and corrupt.
Of course, if they do it in-house, the worth of the results is exactly zero.
In relation to the assets protected, it usually is peanuts. My guess is it is so rare because they do not want to look, as that could bring negative press, a need to "do something", and maybe (depending what agreements they have with the NSA, Russian intelligence, Chinese intelligence, GCHQ, etc.) even a need to hide a new set of backdoors a lot better.
There may often not be a choice. However, it is not smart to trust their hardware, so you need firewalls and/or passive monitoring equipment that you do trust. Sniffing passively for connections to your firewall that should not be there is not even hard. (Of course, only very few people do that, as it costs money...)
Naaa, they may have found something. You know, like Juniper did. It is only now after Juniper did the right thing, that Cisco feels compelled to do so too. I am sure they would have avoided it if they saw some way to do that. I am also sure they will try hard to not find anything, if at all possible without breaking credibility completely.
Depending on the country, "Engineer" is legally protected or not and it is a legal title only when gotten academically. Example: I could call myself "Engineer" everywhere, because I have an engineering PhD from an internationally accredited University. Of course, I may have to do it by giving the full PhD title and a simple "Engineer" may be illegal in some countries. On the other hand, my CS Master does not count at all, as it is not an engineering title where I did it.
So it depends on the specific qualification and country where you got it and the specific regulations in the country where you are using it. One exception: You can always use academic titles with full attribution, including ones from "fake" Universities, but "Dr. phil. (University of Kayman Islands)" does not look very impressive. If it is an accredited university, you can use the full, the abbreviated and the minimal version everywhere and that may include an "Engineer", for example "Master of Engineering in EE". And for a PhD, you are allowed to call yourself "Dr." worldwide if the title is from an accredited university. If not and you shorten it, that can even land you in prison. We had one case here that on the third time using it shortened to "Dr." a got a year suspended (was only fined before). Next time he will go behind bars.
Obviously, I was referring to launching the recycled stage again. Why are so many people unable to see even minimal context these days? Functional illiteracy?
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And get old seals in the bargain for a much reduced remaining lifetime! Seriously, this is terrible advice.
The thing with induction plates is that the central components (power capacitors, switch, coil) must be high-quality, or the whole thing goes up in smoke very fast. Hence they have inherent long lifetime. Of course, manufacturers do not want that, they want people to buy new stuff, not use old stuff forever. What they do is add artificial weak points. Sometime you can find and fix them, and I did so for a generic induction plate.
This plate has a 235V rectifier whose leads are pressing against an aluminum heat-sink. The leads are insulated with PVC-tubing that has a limited lifetime, even more so when heated up, which it is here. When it gets brittle, it stops insulating well, shortening out and blowing the non-replaceable fuse and likely other components. My fix was to saw out the piece of the heat sink that they pressed against. It should also work to replace the tubing with silicone-glass-cloth insulation tubing that has a very long lifetime. While the circuit has some electrolyte capacitors as well, they were all good quality 105C types and should live a long time. They should also not damage the circuit when they fail and hence can be replaced at need.
Well, if googelig "jessie without systemd" and then reading about 10 lines in the debian wiki is too much effort for you, then you are right that it is "too difficult". On any competence level above "incometent" this should however be acceptable, and it requires neither dangerous commands, nor even looking at any non-Debian documentation.
Sure, that the installed does not offer it is a valid concern and I have criticized that in the past rather strongly. However claiming that it is hard or risky to get Debian to run without systemd is just opening up oneself to ridicule, because it is not. Now, if you want to remove udev to have no trace from the systemd-complex left, that would be somewhat difficult, but getting rid of systemd itself is not.
Make no misrtake, I am very much opposed to the default an the missing alternative in the installer, as I think systemd is not ready for prime-time, not universal enough to be the default and has some rather questionable software engineering decision it it. But attacking it with wrong claims is not going to work well.
I rest my case regarding your stupidity.
Hint: There are other models for society. It takes a minumum of actual education to see that though.
Well, that arrogant and condescending fucker has not place in my universe. As for you, just like anybody else with some marbles missing upstairs, I can just ignore you.
Seriously, that is just uninformed bullshit. You can, for example, install a current Debian without systemd being active without too much trouble. In fact, for every server where you need reliability and security, it is a really good idea to do so as systemd sabotages both due to bad software engineering on all levels. Sure, if you want all trace of it to be gone, you may have to do without some not very good software like Gnome, but that is not really an issue.Gnome (and KDE) are pretty much redundant and catering to those with weak skills anyways.
I can only conclude that you are one of the utterly dishonrorable proaganda-shills for systemd and mean to push the idea that you cannot escape getting fucked by it, so you better bend over and take it. Not so.
Or would the OP claim that mathematics is not science? That would be rather stupid. String theory, as a mathematical theory, is very obviously science. Mathematical theory does not care about applicability to any real universe. String theory as a possible model of the physical universe is science as well. What string theory is not is a known-good model of the physical universe due to the lack of verification of its applicability. That this verification may be impossible has no impact of its status as science.
Sure, if verification is actually not possible at all then it is not science that has useful applications, because that also would mean it cannot be used for predictions (that being one of the ways to verify whether a model does apply to reality).
I should also point out that both Quantum Theory and Relativity, the two foundations of modern phsics, are neither complete nor completely verified to be accurate. In fact, history would suggest that at some time in the future, both will have to replaced by more refined theories as there is a good chance that when trying to verify the currently unverified aspects, effects will be found that do not quite fit into them as they currently are. That does not make them useless. Classical mechanics is known to be wrong, yet very useful. You just need to known under which conditions it becomes inaccurate enough to matter.
Are you really dumb enough to assume anybody criticizing capitalism wants that version of socialism as alternative? That requires a really, really limited view of the world.
They are used in large parts of the world. For example, an ICE is entirely self-driving above 160km/h, the operator can only trigger an emergency-brake. The US is just completely stuck in the past here.
Very, very unlikely. I am just pointing out that they could be secure against that threat if they chose so. Of course that costs money, hence they will not. In real-world capitalism, companies will produce the shoddiest quality they can get away with.
In comparison what I hear here on /. Germany has a relatively low fluctuation in workers. A bit higher in employees, but bottom line it is very low. Ofc that is not true for unskilled labour like an over the counter seller in a bakery.
In addition, that German "over the counter seller in a bakery" will have three years of job-specific education ("Baeckereifachverkaeufer") and will not be easily replaceable either. Sure, there will be some unskilled labor there, but only under supervision or while being qualified.
The only resource that has long-term durability is a well educated and qualified population. Of course, that makes conning people (the core skill of politicians) much harder, so there always is a desire to make the population dumber by those in power. That kills a country long-term, but those in power usually are in it only for themselves, so they do not care.
Indeed. The US may cover-up the steady decline and cling to a fantasy of superiority for a while longer by extending the police-state and then going into full fascism. But eventually, it is doomed. Going to a country that is still in ascent is starting lower, but seeing things get better over time. Much more desirable.
Hahahahaha, FAIL!
That is "agitation scientist"! Agitation engineers will soon face unemployment, as those jobs will go overseas. Indian tech support has been training for this new opportunity for years, as everybody that ever talked to them knows.
What, have you not heard we are going to colonize Mars and then the rest of the Universe? Growth forever!
</sarcasm>
Seriously, I fully agree. I think the US has peaked some 10-15 years ago, with the EU 10 years behind. It is now either stability or decline. The US seems to have opted for decline and the EU seems to want to follow that model.
Kids: Go into coding only if you enjoy it _and_ are good at it. Put CS studies on top. In that case you will have decent opportunities and decent pay. All the mediocre and bad coders (and there are a lot out there, as they are the vast majority) will become working poor in the near future.
Old news and outdated. The compiler backdoors can now be prevented: http://www.dwheeler.com/trusti...
Excellent point. The only way besides full source and HW spec access I see, is treating things like the 802.11ac components as "hostile, likely compromised" in the system design. That makes things more expensive, of course.
That depends. If they think they can get away with it, they will have somebody corrupt do the audit. That is then one security company with a potential reputation problem. But exactly because of that effect, they may actually not be able to get anybody both reputable and corrupt.
Of course, if they do it in-house, the worth of the results is exactly zero.
In relation to the assets protected, it usually is peanuts. My guess is it is so rare because they do not want to look, as that could bring negative press, a need to "do something", and maybe (depending what agreements they have with the NSA, Russian intelligence, Chinese intelligence, GCHQ, etc.) even a need to hide a new set of backdoors a lot better.
There may often not be a choice. However, it is not smart to trust their hardware, so you need firewalls and/or passive monitoring equipment that you do trust. Sniffing passively for connections to your firewall that should not be there is not even hard. (Of course, only very few people do that, as it costs money...)
Naaa, they may have found something. You know, like Juniper did. It is only now after Juniper did the right thing, that Cisco feels compelled to do so too. I am sure they would have avoided it if they saw some way to do that. I am also sure they will try hard to not find anything, if at all possible without breaking credibility completely.
Obviously I was talking in context.
Obviously I was talking in context. Extremely obviously, in fact.
Depending on the country, "Engineer" is legally protected or not and it is a legal title only when gotten academically. Example: I could call myself "Engineer" everywhere, because I have an engineering PhD from an internationally accredited University. Of course, I may have to do it by giving the full PhD title and a simple "Engineer" may be illegal in some countries. On the other hand, my CS Master does not count at all, as it is not an engineering title where I did it.
So it depends on the specific qualification and country where you got it and the specific regulations in the country where you are using it. One exception: You can always use academic titles with full attribution, including ones from "fake" Universities, but "Dr. phil. (University of Kayman Islands)" does not look very impressive. If it is an accredited university, you can use the full, the abbreviated and the minimal version everywhere and that may include an "Engineer", for example "Master of Engineering in EE". And for a PhD, you are allowed to call yourself "Dr." worldwide if the title is from an accredited university. If not and you shorten it, that can even land you in prison. We had one case here that on the third time using it shortened to "Dr." a got a year suspended (was only fined before). Next time he will go behind bars.
Obviously, I was referring to launching the recycled stage again. Why are so many people unable to see even minimal context these days? Functional illiteracy?