At first reading something seemed off about the question, and I think you summed it up nicely.
To me it comes across a bit as the OP asking 'I need some vaguely authoritative sounding reasons for a sexy solution, look at my keywords and tell me what is "in" with that community'
Or at minimal, enough ordinary people. Plenty on slashdot for that matter, lots of people in the middle class dislike human rights groups, well, lots of middle class white males hate them at least.
Ahm, there is wide action in his support. They guy is getting a massive outpouring of support from the media and internet in general. It is not the only reaction, but it is pretty well represented because of, *gasp* free speech. Yes, in free speech the minority side actually gets to make their case, not just keep quite from bothering the poor oppressed WASPs who's right to be intolerant without repercussion must be maintained.
It is the old 'freedom from/freedom to' thing. When people feel safe and secure from discrimination they fight for the 'freedom to' and frame the fight as them being persecuted, while people actually being discriminated against tend to fight for 'freedom from'.
Depends on just how weak your group is. Years ago I knew several lesbians who, when outed, had trouble finding ANY work in their region. There was some ROTC kid going around making sure any business who hired them knew they were hiring a lesbian and they would immediately be fired. Kinda hard to have 'freedom' when you can not pay your rent.
meh, there is something to be said for some groups needing legal protections more then others, and in general people with wealth and power tend to have enough of their own resources and political power to take care of themselves and still come out on top.
It is already a long held precedent, it is simply unusual to see this kind of pressure work in this direction. Usually being a 'deviant' or covered by some moral panic can get you fired or pressured out of position, but a high profile position getting this kind of pressure on minority rights is kinda new.
Yeah, terrible headline.
It pretty much comes down to 'well, if something similar but completely different in all of its actual details happened then it would likely violate the law!'
Youtube is, in many ways, an example of the opposite happening. They are the new 'middle man', not that differnt from dealing with a cable company. Sure the barrier to entry are lower and there is no subscription, but they still control what you can and can not see, not to mention how you see it.
Actually, I have seen offices "upgrade" their physical desks to newer styles as people complain how old fashioned their work area looks. "Working in some 70s reject office is hurting moral!".
I do not believe anyone is saying it should not stop, but outrage over any specific country that 'might' be doing it is rather silly. It is a bit like a front page story about a some celebrity everyone loves to hate going 50mph in a 45 zone. Yeah they shouldn't be speeding, but pretending that them doing it is something special is not terribly realistic.
Though in this case, the first case is essentially what is happening. The exchange is giving your trade information to HFT traders in such a way that it can be utilized before it arrives at the other exchanges, even though all they are supposed to be doing is forwarding your trades to the other exchanges.
As someone who has to maintain an un-updatable Ubuntu server.. even distros that are still around do not necessarily have a good path for upgrading or even keep the same repos online.
Even when the company does support linux and produces a driver for their hardware, even when there was at the time an OSS version of the driver with source available, there is no guarantee there is a version of it that will function with updated kernels or distributions. Try taking a driver written for a 2.2 kernel with gcc 2.95 and make it work with a modern copy of CentOS or Ubutntu and one can find themselves just as stuck.
Open source drivers tend to fall by the wayside too if there is not someone out there maintaining them. I can recall the nightmare of moving up to 2.6 years ago because we had unusual hardware that no one had bothered to migrate the drivers to newer kernel versions, which meant the machines got harder and harder to put compatible software on since the whole user space chain had moved on.
So yeah, open source, not a panacea against the problem of support and compatibility when older hardware is in the mix.
I think part of this cuts to the heart of why many people do not upgrade. For fetishists, an OS is an OS and has value unto itself. For many users, an OS is a file manager and application launcher, and thus fancy new features do not actually add any new functionality for them. Many users do not care what services and protocols are now 'built in' or how seamless the 'media experience' is, they just want their web browser, a working media player, or whatever other major application they tend to use the machine for. And for that use pattern, as long as the app runs and the hardware drivers are supported, XP is functionally equivalent to Win7 or Win8, with the major advantage of them already having it and already knowing where all the settings are that they do not want to fiddle with unless they need to.
And such people can legitimately ask 'why should I change?'. When something works, the burden should be on the people saying users should change, not on the users to justify not changing. Sometimes it feels like the UI changes we see every year are just different for the sake of being different with few actual changes in functionality.
Slashdot Mirror
More likely 'NASA calculations show distance of Planet X, results quickly covers up by retracted claims with fake math'
I was hoping someone would post that ^_^ always good for a laugh.
And here I am out of mod points.
At first reading something seemed off about the question, and I think you summed it up nicely.
To me it comes across a bit as the OP asking 'I need some vaguely authoritative sounding reasons for a sexy solution, look at my keywords and tell me what is "in" with that community'
No need to develop your own locking system, just use whatever logging functionality the server has.
*gasp* a sensible solution using readily available mature tools? *faints*
Or at minimal, enough ordinary people. Plenty on slashdot for that matter, lots of people in the middle class dislike human rights groups, well, lots of middle class white males hate them at least.
Nobody is taking protections away from them, but they do not need special protections tailored for them either.
Ahm, there is wide action in his support. They guy is getting a massive outpouring of support from the media and internet in general. It is not the only reaction, but it is pretty well represented because of, *gasp* free speech. Yes, in free speech the minority side actually gets to make their case, not just keep quite from bothering the poor oppressed WASPs who's right to be intolerant without repercussion must be maintained.
Though if we went down that legal road, we would essentially be making it illegal for people to quit when they do not like their new boss.
It is the old 'freedom from/freedom to' thing. When people feel safe and secure from discrimination they fight for the 'freedom to' and frame the fight as them being persecuted, while people actually being discriminated against tend to fight for 'freedom from'.
Depends on just how weak your group is. Years ago I knew several lesbians who, when outed, had trouble finding ANY work in their region. There was some ROTC kid going around making sure any business who hired them knew they were hiring a lesbian and they would immediately be fired. Kinda hard to have 'freedom' when you can not pay your rent.
meh, there is something to be said for some groups needing legal protections more then others, and in general people with wealth and power tend to have enough of their own resources and political power to take care of themselves and still come out on top.
It is already a long held precedent, it is simply unusual to see this kind of pressure work in this direction. Usually being a 'deviant' or covered by some moral panic can get you fired or pressured out of position, but a high profile position getting this kind of pressure on minority rights is kinda new.
Yeah, terrible headline. It pretty much comes down to 'well, if something similar but completely different in all of its actual details happened then it would likely violate the law!'
the problems are not technological in nature.
Youtube is, in many ways, an example of the opposite happening. They are the new 'middle man', not that differnt from dealing with a cable company. Sure the barrier to entry are lower and there is no subscription, but they still control what you can and can not see, not to mention how you see it.
Actually, I have seen offices "upgrade" their physical desks to newer styles as people complain how old fashioned their work area looks. "Working in some 70s reject office is hurting moral!".
I do not believe anyone is saying it should not stop, but outrage over any specific country that 'might' be doing it is rather silly. It is a bit like a front page story about a some celebrity everyone loves to hate going 50mph in a 45 zone. Yeah they shouldn't be speeding, but pretending that them doing it is something special is not terribly realistic.
Though in this case, the first case is essentially what is happening. The exchange is giving your trade information to HFT traders in such a way that it can be utilized before it arrives at the other exchanges, even though all they are supposed to be doing is forwarding your trades to the other exchanges.
As someone who has to maintain an un-updatable Ubuntu server.. even distros that are still around do not necessarily have a good path for upgrading or even keep the same repos online.
Even when the company does support linux and produces a driver for their hardware, even when there was at the time an OSS version of the driver with source available, there is no guarantee there is a version of it that will function with updated kernels or distributions. Try taking a driver written for a 2.2 kernel with gcc 2.95 and make it work with a modern copy of CentOS or Ubutntu and one can find themselves just as stuck.
Open source drivers tend to fall by the wayside too if there is not someone out there maintaining them. I can recall the nightmare of moving up to 2.6 years ago because we had unusual hardware that no one had bothered to migrate the drivers to newer kernel versions, which meant the machines got harder and harder to put compatible software on since the whole user space chain had moved on.
So yeah, open source, not a panacea against the problem of support and compatibility when older hardware is in the mix.
I think part of this cuts to the heart of why many people do not upgrade. For fetishists, an OS is an OS and has value unto itself. For many users, an OS is a file manager and application launcher, and thus fancy new features do not actually add any new functionality for them. Many users do not care what services and protocols are now 'built in' or how seamless the 'media experience' is, they just want their web browser, a working media player, or whatever other major application they tend to use the machine for. And for that use pattern, as long as the app runs and the hardware drivers are supported, XP is functionally equivalent to Win7 or Win8, with the major advantage of them already having it and already knowing where all the settings are that they do not want to fiddle with unless they need to.
And such people can legitimately ask 'why should I change?'. When something works, the burden should be on the people saying users should change, not on the users to justify not changing. Sometimes it feels like the UI changes we see every year are just different for the sake of being different with few actual changes in functionality.
Not really, the spread is still there, the buyer just pays on the higher end of it.