Worst part is , if you took the stupid company out of the picture, the database itself is actually a pretty neat piece of software. Then again, so was SCO Unix, once upon a time, before satan unleashed his lawyers all over the place.
Exactly. I work with an Oracle system for 17 years now, started with Oracle 7 and it's up to Oracle 11 now. The Database is great. We had exactly *two* major unplanned downtimes in that 17 years, (which were both related to the OS layer. And we got rid of most problems there when we switched from AIX to Linux)
As long as you can handle the database yourself with the on-line support resources, it's great. But God help you if you have to deal with someone *from* Oracle. (and I'm *so* grateful, that we have a legal department which handles all the licensing bullshit)
The "Pay the artist" is a pretty OK model, when the music is indeed made by an individual artist. The same way that you would pay a painter for a picture for example.
But when you have an "industrial created thing", like mainstream music, or a car, there is no sane reason, for example, to pay the people who build the car by the amount of people buying the car. In that scenario the "Industry" first pays the people building the car, and then selling the car to customers. The only reason the music "Industry" isn't doing it that way, is that the want to screw the artist over by putting the risk of failure of an product on their "workers", wile reaping most of the profits when the product is an success.
If a driver can detect 95% of hazards, and the car can detect 70% of hazards, then there is improved security, because they both would have to miss a hazard. But switching completely from the driver in charge to the car in charge decreases security.
Kinda reminds me of some people I encountered in IT back in the 90's. "Hey, I don't need to backup anymore, I have RAID now"
Like the smart home I visited last weekend, which decided to switch off the lights 2-3 times a hour in irregular intervals with the owner groaning, and switching them on again with his smart-phone. (Which tool 2-3 times longer than taking the two steps to the switch which would have been right there)
The Giza-Orion thing aside, what most Egyptologists seem to agree on is that they used the stars to fix the North-South orientation of all their pyramids. (Because that orientation drifted over the years they stared building them, following the precession of the earth axis)
When three backups in different physical locations, one of them being miles away, is "doing the bare minimum", then having a backup "in the cloud" where you can expect a "whoops, sorry, we lost your data, because we don't care shit about it" mail sooner or later wouldn't even register on the scale.
Which is to say, rarely off-sited, which means you lose days, weeks, or months of data in case of a fire. Setting up auto-pilot offsite backups is important, if you care about your data. Guess you don't really have anything valuable to lose.
Depends of course how fast the data changes. In my case, I rotate three hardisks from home to my office. (The data itself is stored on a NAS with RAID, with daily sync to another NAS in another room (versioned to one year back, so that I can recover from accidental deletes and/or file level corruptions), so I can at least lose one room to a fire without losing data)
I do that "rotate next drive to off-site" about once a month, when I scanned the new "important" documents, OR if I come back from a trip and just added a few GB of pictures and videos, OR if I have written some new software, which only happens once or twice a year.
Businesses can and do have contingency plans to work without computers. It's absolutely possible with a little foresight and planning.
Foresight, planning *and* training. I work for a Retailer with about 20 branches. What we do, we disconnect every branch from central IT once a year for a day (granted, on one of the slower days), so that they know how to handle the backup procedures.
They build a car that performed as good as possible for the customer, and as good as possible for the government inquisitor. The only problem was, that the government inquisitor didn't like that the car was able to figure out it was being tested and changed it's behaviour based on that.
The last time one of MY emails ended up flagged as spam was because the spam filter of the receiving mail-server did a sender check with my mail server, but that sender check didn't conform to the SMTP specs, so it was refused as spam attempt by my mail server.
( On the plus side, the receiving mail server didn't just silently drop it or put it in a spam folder, but it refused delivery with a 5xx code, so that I could notify the recipient via other channels. )
That's of course true if your design goal is to run it and on a central server.
I must confess at the moment the "central server" structure that a cheap Synology at home offers is enough for me (I can mount the drives in Windows and Linux locally or over the Internet via ssh, and also access them via a web interface) . But some years back I listened to a very interesting "Gitify your Life" speech of someone who manages everything from shell configs, to office documents to holiday photos in a central-server-less structure in GIT repositories on different machines. Which has the added benefit that you don't have a central server that can lose your data.
It'd be interesting to see the FOSS community come up with an equivalent to OneDrive (if we could somehow do it without needing a central server, that'd be a major step forward).
I think they did some years ago, it's called "git". It of course lacks the snazzy guy and the marketing department.;-)
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Worst part is , if you took the stupid company out of the picture, the database itself is actually a pretty neat piece of software. Then again, so was SCO Unix, once upon a time, before satan unleashed his lawyers all over the place.
Exactly. I work with an Oracle system for 17 years now, started with Oracle 7 and it's up to Oracle 11 now. The Database is great. We had exactly *two* major unplanned downtimes in that 17 years, (which were both related to the OS layer. And we got rid of most problems there when we switched from AIX to Linux)
As long as you can handle the database yourself with the on-line support resources, it's great. But God help you if you have to deal with someone *from* Oracle. (and I'm *so* grateful, that we have a legal department which handles all the licensing bullshit)
I'm sure crumpled paper will line up exactly with the 30k dots it has remembering the exact depth of your face.
Great. Then you can't unlock the phone after you had an accident and your face itself is slightly crumpled.
The whole system is insane, in my opinion.
The "Pay the artist" is a pretty OK model, when the music is indeed made by an individual artist. The same way that you would pay a painter for a picture for example.
But when you have an "industrial created thing", like mainstream music, or a car, there is no sane reason, for example, to pay the people who build the car by the amount of people buying the car. In that scenario the "Industry" first pays the people building the car, and then selling the car to customers. The only reason the music "Industry" isn't doing it that way, is that the want to screw the artist over by putting the risk of failure of an product on their "workers", wile reaping most of the profits when the product is an success.
Capitalism: bread waits for people. Socialism: people wait for bread.
And then you have the American system. Corporations using the government to bully the people into buying overpriced bread that nobody really wants. ;-)
I think the "on it's own" it really the thing.
If a driver can detect 95% of hazards, and the car can detect 70% of hazards, then there is improved security, because they both would have to miss a hazard. But switching completely from the driver in charge to the car in charge decreases security.
Kinda reminds me of some people I encountered in IT back in the 90's. "Hey, I don't need to backup anymore, I have RAID now"
Because it feels "Star-Trek-y"
Like the smart home I visited last weekend, which decided to switch off the lights 2-3 times a hour in irregular intervals with the owner groaning, and switching them on again with his smart-phone. (Which tool 2-3 times longer than taking the two steps to the switch which would have been right there)
Or randomly switch them from left to right, so that both sides get an equal chance.
... Google MrFusion (Beta) to be publicly available.
Yeah, the unit file "works" in the sense that the service is now running as root.
Which makes me wonder if Poettering is paid by the NSA or something......
Maybe the reason is to have a consistent vector into Linuxes.
And it sure does a good job at creating a consistent attack vector.
The Giza-Orion thing aside, what most Egyptologists seem to agree on is that they used the stars to fix the North-South orientation of all their pyramids. (Because that orientation drifted over the years they stared building them, following the precession of the earth axis)
When three backups in different physical locations, one of them being miles away, is "doing the bare minimum", then having a backup "in the cloud" where you can expect a "whoops, sorry, we lost your data, because we don't care shit about it" mail sooner or later wouldn't even register on the scale.
Which is to say, rarely off-sited, which means you lose days, weeks, or months of data in case of a fire. Setting up auto-pilot offsite backups is important, if you care about your data. Guess you don't really have anything valuable to lose.
Depends of course how fast the data changes. In my case, I rotate three hardisks from home to my office. (The data itself is stored on a NAS with RAID, with daily sync to another NAS in another room (versioned to one year back, so that I can recover from accidental deletes and/or file level corruptions), so I can at least lose one room to a fire without losing data)
I do that "rotate next drive to off-site" about once a month, when I scanned the new "important" documents, OR if I come back from a trip and just added a few GB of pictures and videos, OR if I have written some new software, which only happens once or twice a year.
... to order food, scribble doodles and send funny pictures?
Wow. Society rally is going down the drain.
Businesses can and do have contingency plans to work without computers. It's absolutely possible with a little foresight and planning.
Foresight, planning *and* training. I work for a Retailer with about 20 branches. What we do, we disconnect every branch from central IT once a year for a day (granted, on one of the slower days), so that they know how to handle the backup procedures.
Would be really weird to ban laptops, but then let you bring funny self-made boxes with wires sticking out on board. ;-D
If it it wants to be of anything useful it should take the Firefox source code and keep a XUL extension system running instead of web extensions.
There's already PaleMoon for that, which has been my default browser for about five years now.
At least VW didn't make any engineering mistakes.
They build a car that performed as good as possible for the customer, and as good as possible for the government inquisitor. The only problem was, that the government inquisitor didn't like that the car was able to figure out it was being tested and changed it's behaviour based on that.
Quote from the article:
"Jacobs spent the last decades of her life in Toronto, and fought against ambitious urban planning initiatives there"
So she left New York? Why? Was it so bad to live there any longer, after she sabotaged the plans to make it better?
The last time one of MY emails ended up flagged as spam was because the spam filter of the receiving mail-server did a sender check with my mail server, but that sender check didn't conform to the SMTP specs, so it was refused as spam attempt by my mail server.
( On the plus side, the receiving mail server didn't just silently drop it or put it in a spam folder, but it refused delivery with a 5xx code, so that I could notify the recipient via other channels. )
The OAuth page should also make it clear when it's an untrusted third party requesting the access.
So how is Google going to know which parties you are trusting, and which parties you are not trusting? Their magic 8 ball?
There are basically only two options:
- YOU Decide who to trust or not to trust
- Google deciding it FOR you.
In my opinion, Option one is the lesser of two evils.
Don't worry, upgraded version 2.0 of the driver-less truck will drive right up to your sofa...
That's of course true if your design goal is to run it and on a central server.
I must confess at the moment the "central server" structure that a cheap Synology at home offers is enough for me (I can mount the drives in Windows and Linux locally or over the Internet via ssh, and also access them via a web interface) . But some years back I listened to a very interesting "Gitify your Life" speech of someone who manages everything from shell configs, to office documents to holiday photos in a central-server-less structure in GIT repositories on different machines. Which has the added benefit that you don't have a central server that can lose your data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Well, it was a job at Wall Street. Their "good work ethics" radar is probably somewhat out of alignment. ;-P
It'd be interesting to see the FOSS community come up with an equivalent to OneDrive (if we could somehow do it without needing a central server, that'd be a major step forward).
I think they did some years ago, it's called "git". It of course lacks the snazzy guy and the marketing department. ;-)