The point of open source isn't, "free software you don't have to pay anyone to develop!" but rather, it's software that you can audit and don't have to take anyone's word that it does what they claim. Honestly, when your data is both highly valuable and sensitive you should at the very least hire another company to review the source code.
Even if my own federal government is sticking it's head in the ground, it's good to see that some nations are beginning to take our global situation seriously. A shift in the structure of power will occur when nations actually take our situation seriously.
Racial inequality will exist so long as racial stereotypes can be statistically validated.
I'm not sure what you mean. Is this a bad thing that we can correlate things like intelligence to genetics?
Yes because no such causal link exists.
Racial inequality exists because we define a person as a race and not a person.
Actually, it's far more about economics than it is about race, race got mixed in due to racism. Poor areas have a tendency to get less funding for education than rich areas. If we balanced it out, within a generation you would be getting similar outcomes.
If people want to see racial inequality disappear then, IMHO at least, we should stop asking for race on applications to university and jobs.
I agree. Universities shouldn't be looking for "racial diversity" they should be looking for "economic diversity".
Education to stop the hatred would be a great idea. Such as stop teaching children in school that the "white man" spread disease among the First Nations with blankets tainted with disease. The germ theory wasn't established then.
At least in my education, the term "white man" was never mentioned. However, they did spread disease via contaminated blankets. I'm not implying it's out of malice, I'm just stating that is how it happened.
European colonists certainly did a lot of horrible things.
Yes, far more than they get credit for.
What they also did was end the practice in India of throwing the surviving wife onto the funeral fire of her dead husband.
Interesting... but that's about the history of India which is not a topic in High School history classes.
White men didn't "invent" slavery, they ended it.
They did neither and I've never heard anyone claim either inside a school setting.
It's the white male that is continually shit upon in the USA.
We'll have Black History Month. We'll see Cinco de Mayo celebrated in the USA. There's quite a list of months for celebrating "diversity". Where's my month?
Seriously? That's what you are concerned about? You want a month? Please grow a pair.
Don't teach children that only one skin color were slaves and that only one skin color owned them.
Never heard such a claim in school. In fact, I remember learning quite clearly that the slaves in Egypt built the pyramids.
Everyone on Earth today has slavery in their history. The debts on that was wiped clean many times over with war, healing, and time.
There was war and there was time but I don't think any real healing happened after the US civil war. If it did, why were races segregated until the 1970s?
We need to remember it happened as a warning to not do it again.
I find it odd about the tearing down of Civil War monuments. These people don't want to forget the Civil War.
There's only been one that was actually torn down. The reason it was torn down was because it could not be moved despite what the locals wanted because the state has laws that prohibit moving them.
What is really happening is the Democrats wanting to rewrite history by taking down the statues of prominent Democrat leaders. They want people to forget the rascist past of the Democrat Party.
That's hilarious because it's always republicans that omit one critical fact, all the racist Democrats (aka Dixiecrats) were so pissed off about integration that they changed parties and became Republicans. Republicans used to be the liberal party and Democrats used to be conservatives. To put it simply, racists have always been part of the conservative party.
Talking about languages and then claiming you don't want to contribute to a language war is on par with, "I'm not a racist but..." because it's counter to what you are saying.
Honestly, I think we'll have quantum dot cellular automata before we get reversable computing. In doing so, it would eliminate our power consumption issues in regard to computing. As always, the real problems lie with the manufacturing of these devices.
Legit question: have we been doing the exact same thing to other nations? If so, this is really a problem of your own making. Either way, sanctions are an option but if you are doing the exact same thing, they are going to be uninclined to comply.
The distro uses Systemd and it's.deb based so it's passing on all the Ubuntu/Debian packages that require Systemd as well. Not a troll, just info for people who don't want Systemd.
Using electric vehicles is nice, but that require extra power generation. What are they planning?
everything but they really like solar.
the wiki article has lots of info about their growing power systems.
India's renewable energy sector is amongst the world's most active players in renewable energy utilization, especially solar and wind electricity generation. -- wikipedia
The problem with this solution is that it will have large scale unintended consequences and it doesn't even solve the ocean acidity problem. A far batter solution is to built a fuckload of atmospheric carbon dioxide scrubbing plants. We have the technology, we just lack the political representatives to act to make this happen. This "Re-Engineering Earth" idea is something that you try when you have completely run out of options and we aren't there yet.
If only there was some way that programs from around the globe could review the kernel of an operating system. No wait, we could expand it to all software and make it some sort of hub for getting software. Oh well, I guess it's one of those impossible things that will never happen.;)
saving transportation companies hundreds of thousands of dollars and cutting soot-causing carbon emissions by thousands of tons per trip.
Ha! The engines are already terribly inefficient and they could easily be optimized a little and do both of these things. So why not do it? Simple, it has to always work because time is money. Besides, we would all be better off if we connected all six continent with a single intercontinental railroad. Not only would things arrive faster, it would be better for the environment.
I get called on from time to time to help non computer illiterate friends and family do things on their computer. For people like this any change is a problem.
It's far past time we allow these people to languish in their refusal to use critical thinking to solve their own problems. Hell, they don't even have to think much, just follow the flowchart! https://xkcd.com/627/
5,000 people seems a bit small to actually be representative of 300,000,000 people. I would also point out that this is only representative of people that actually agree to take a survey. I'm not saying their claim is incorrect, I'm just saying one small survey shouldn't be taken as gospel.
Google has become one of those cautionary tales about why automating absolutely everything is a bad idea. Automation is great when it works but when there is a bug in the system, it comes to a grinding halt.
What will your windmill or solar panel look like after a plane crashes into it? I don't care if your solar panels are bulletproof, they are never going to hold up to the abuse that a concrete bunker can.
Are you concerned about planes crashing into your house? I've never had that problem. Do you live in a concrete bunker in fear of planes?
Right, and no single person is going to take down a nuclear power plant, or any significant portion of the electrical grid
Did you not see what the article was about? it doesn't matter if your power supply could withstand a kinetic orbital strike if a single hacker can destroy the entire electrical grid infrastructure via computer network.
If a bunch of solar panels and windmills get busted up then Walmart is going to run out of both real quick.
If only there was a way to move such large items from one town to the next! -_-
you show graphs of solar panels getting cheaper but can't nuclear power get cheaper too?
If batteries get cheap enough then we'll just use coal and nuclear power to charge them up at night to meet the peak demands during the day.
LOL! You think people are going to pay for infrastructure that they aren't dependent on? Have you not seen the results of mass outages?
You do not seem to understand the how our electrical grid actually functions as a whole. Please read up on it before arguing nuclear's invulnerability. While you're at it, read up on economics and human behavior because you aren't grasping some basic things about people.
Solar is only cheap if it is connected, and that means there's some centralized utility. If you take solar off the grid then you need storage, and that costs money.
Wouldn't an idiot with a rifle be even more successful in attacking solar panels than a coal, nuclear, or natural gas power plant?
The point is the reduce amount of damage that can be done by one person. With shingles they could use a shitload of ammo to destroy the power system for one house but they can't do that to millions of houses. Even if one guy shot a bunch of solar panels, you can just go to wal-mart and buy a new panel.
I mean we can (and do) put a nuclear power plant in a big concrete dome to protect it from attack but we can't do that to solar panels. What of a hail storm?
Without a tie to the grid then how are these people supposed to get power until the solar panels are repaired? I know the answer, on site diesel generators, kind of like how we deal with grid outages now.
With solar shingles, you would have to take them all out to reduce power generation to zero. If someone shoots three-fourths of them, you just don't use high power high-power things until you can get replacement shingles. With panels, again, you can just go to wal-mart and buy a new panel. This isn't rocket science.
I'm sure that there's a lot of things we could do to secure our electrical supply. I'm also sure that solar power isn't one of those things.
You're also an idiot who ignores inconvenient facts, so nobody should take your word for it.
I've argued in favor of decentralized off-grid solar power because centralized power is vulnerable to attack. People either don't grasp what I mean or write it off as paranoia but this is a prime example of the vulnerability that centralized power systems create.
Be it a tree or hacker, centralized power systems a vulnerable to attack. (We shouldn't have pissed off the trees.)
Udev can detect mount events such as the DVD being ejected by the eject button on the front of the unit.
No, what it can detect is a change in media. Mounting is different because you can have several partitions on a drive and mount and unmount them at different times. However, udev cannot detect any of these mounts or unmounts.
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The point of open source isn't, "free software you don't have to pay anyone to develop!" but rather, it's software that you can audit and don't have to take anyone's word that it does what they claim. Honestly, when your data is both highly valuable and sensitive you should at the very least hire another company to review the source code.
Even if my own federal government is sticking it's head in the ground, it's good to see that some nations are beginning to take our global situation seriously. A shift in the structure of power will occur when nations actually take our situation seriously.
You would need to be among people that take hits of LSD every day to think a $400 fruit squeezer was a great idea.
Racial inequality will exist so long as racial stereotypes can be statistically validated.
I'm not sure what you mean. Is this a bad thing that we can correlate things like intelligence to genetics?
Yes because no such causal link exists.
Racial inequality exists because we define a person as a race and not a person.
Actually, it's far more about economics than it is about race, race got mixed in due to racism. Poor areas have a tendency to get less funding for education than rich areas. If we balanced it out, within a generation you would be getting similar outcomes.
If people want to see racial inequality disappear then, IMHO at least, we should stop asking for race on applications to university and jobs.
I agree. Universities shouldn't be looking for "racial diversity" they should be looking for "economic diversity".
Education to stop the hatred would be a great idea. Such as stop teaching children in school that the "white man" spread disease among the First Nations with blankets tainted with disease. The germ theory wasn't established then.
At least in my education, the term "white man" was never mentioned. However, they did spread disease via contaminated blankets. I'm not implying it's out of malice, I'm just stating that is how it happened.
European colonists certainly did a lot of horrible things.
Yes, far more than they get credit for.
What they also did was end the practice in India of throwing the surviving wife onto the funeral fire of her dead husband.
Interesting... but that's about the history of India which is not a topic in High School history classes.
White men didn't "invent" slavery, they ended it.
They did neither and I've never heard anyone claim either inside a school setting.
It's the white male that is continually shit upon in the USA.
We'll have Black History Month. We'll see Cinco de Mayo celebrated in the USA. There's quite a list of months for celebrating "diversity". Where's my month?
Seriously? That's what you are concerned about? You want a month? Please grow a pair.
Don't teach children that only one skin color were slaves and that only one skin color owned them.
Never heard such a claim in school. In fact, I remember learning quite clearly that the slaves in Egypt built the pyramids.
Everyone on Earth today has slavery in their history. The debts on that was wiped clean many times over with war, healing, and time.
There was war and there was time but I don't think any real healing happened after the US civil war. If it did, why were races segregated until the 1970s?
We need to remember it happened as a warning to not do it again.
I find it odd about the tearing down of Civil War monuments. These people don't want to forget the Civil War.
There's only been one that was actually torn down. The reason it was torn down was because it could not be moved despite what the locals wanted because the state has laws that prohibit moving them.
What is really happening is the Democrats wanting to rewrite history by taking down the statues of prominent Democrat leaders. They want people to forget the rascist past of the Democrat Party.
That's hilarious because it's always republicans that omit one critical fact, all the racist Democrats (aka Dixiecrats) were so pissed off about integration that they changed parties and became Republicans. Republicans used to be the liberal party and Democrats used to be conservatives. To put it simply, racists have always been part of the conservative party.
Talking about languages and then claiming you don't want to contribute to a language war is on par with, "I'm not a racist but..." because it's counter to what you are saying.
Honestly, I think we'll have quantum dot cellular automata before we get reversable computing. In doing so, it would eliminate our power consumption issues in regard to computing. As always, the real problems lie with the manufacturing of these devices.
It's patented by some spanish company, so you won't be seeing installations in the US any time soon. ;)
Legit question: have we been doing the exact same thing to other nations? If so, this is really a problem of your own making. Either way, sanctions are an option but if you are doing the exact same thing, they are going to be uninclined to comply.
The distro uses Systemd and it's .deb based so it's passing on all the Ubuntu/Debian packages that require Systemd as well. Not a troll, just info for people who don't want Systemd.
Because that's no longer sufficient.
Using electric vehicles is nice, but that require extra power generation. What are they planning?
everything but they really like solar.
the wiki article has lots of info about their growing power systems.
India's renewable energy sector is amongst the world's most active players in renewable energy utilization, especially solar and wind electricity generation. -- wikipedia
Since when did Facebook have credibility?
The problem with this solution is that it will have large scale unintended consequences and it doesn't even solve the ocean acidity problem. A far batter solution is to built a fuckload of atmospheric carbon dioxide scrubbing plants. We have the technology, we just lack the political representatives to act to make this happen. This "Re-Engineering Earth" idea is something that you try when you have completely run out of options and we aren't there yet.
If only there was some way that programs from around the globe could review the kernel of an operating system. No wait, we could expand it to all software and make it some sort of hub for getting software. Oh well, I guess it's one of those impossible things that will never happen. ;)
saving transportation companies hundreds of thousands of dollars and cutting soot-causing carbon emissions by thousands of tons per trip.
Ha! The engines are already terribly inefficient and they could easily be optimized a little and do both of these things. So why not do it? Simple, it has to always work because time is money. Besides, we would all be better off if we connected all six continent with a single intercontinental railroad. Not only would things arrive faster, it would be better for the environment.
I get called on from time to time to help non computer illiterate friends and family do things on their computer. For people like this any change is a problem.
It's far past time we allow these people to languish in their refusal to use critical thinking to solve their own problems. Hell, they don't even have to think much, just follow the flowchart! https://xkcd.com/627/
5,000 people seems a bit small to actually be representative of 300,000,000 people. I would also point out that this is only representative of people that actually agree to take a survey. I'm not saying their claim is incorrect, I'm just saying one small survey shouldn't be taken as gospel.
Google has become one of those cautionary tales about why automating absolutely everything is a bad idea. Automation is great when it works but when there is a bug in the system, it comes to a grinding halt.
What will your windmill or solar panel look like after a plane crashes into it? I don't care if your solar panels are bulletproof, they are never going to hold up to the abuse that a concrete bunker can.
Are you concerned about planes crashing into your house? I've never had that problem. Do you live in a concrete bunker in fear of planes?
Right, and no single person is going to take down a nuclear power plant, or any significant portion of the electrical grid
Did you not see what the article was about? it doesn't matter if your power supply could withstand a kinetic orbital strike if a single hacker can destroy the entire electrical grid infrastructure via computer network.
If a bunch of solar panels and windmills get busted up then Walmart is going to run out of both real quick.
If only there was a way to move such large items from one town to the next! -_-
you show graphs of solar panels getting cheaper but can't nuclear power get cheaper too?
If it hasn't happened in the last 70 years, why do you think it would start now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
(by the sun going nova)
Sol will never "go nova".
If batteries get cheap enough then we'll just use coal and nuclear power to charge them up at night to meet the peak demands during the day.
LOL! You think people are going to pay for infrastructure that they aren't dependent on? Have you not seen the results of mass outages?
You do not seem to understand the how our electrical grid actually functions as a whole. Please read up on it before arguing nuclear's invulnerability. While you're at it, read up on economics and human behavior because you aren't grasping some basic things about people.
Solar is only cheap if it is connected, and that means there's some centralized utility. If you take solar off the grid then you need storage, and that costs money.
Careful or facts might get in the way. It's called economies of scale and it's helped us before.
Wouldn't an idiot with a rifle be even more successful in attacking solar panels than a coal, nuclear, or natural gas power plant?
The point is the reduce amount of damage that can be done by one person. With shingles they could use a shitload of ammo to destroy the power system for one house but they can't do that to millions of houses. Even if one guy shot a bunch of solar panels, you can just go to wal-mart and buy a new panel.
I mean we can (and do) put a nuclear power plant in a big concrete dome to protect it from attack but we can't do that to solar panels. What of a hail storm?
Oh those pesky facts are at it again!
Without a tie to the grid then how are these people supposed to get power until the solar panels are repaired? I know the answer, on site diesel generators, kind of like how we deal with grid outages now.
With solar shingles, you would have to take them all out to reduce power generation to zero. If someone shoots three-fourths of them, you just don't use high power high-power things until you can get replacement shingles. With panels, again, you can just go to wal-mart and buy a new panel. This isn't rocket science.
I'm sure that there's a lot of things we could do to secure our electrical supply. I'm also sure that solar power isn't one of those things.
You're also an idiot who ignores inconvenient facts, so nobody should take your word for it.
This JavaScript bullshit has gone too far. It's features are already abused too much, this will just make things worse.
I've argued in favor of decentralized off-grid solar power because centralized power is vulnerable to attack. People either don't grasp what I mean or write it off as paranoia but this is a prime example of the vulnerability that centralized power systems create.
Be it a tree or hacker, centralized power systems a vulnerable to attack. (We shouldn't have pissed off the trees.)
I'm neither surprised nor upset that these scoundrels rip-off each other.
sysfs is generated using uevents from the kernel. That is an event you can detect via netlink. see also: NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT
Udev can detect mount events such as the DVD being ejected by the eject button on the front of the unit.
No, what it can detect is a change in media. Mounting is different because you can have several partitions on a drive and mount and unmount them at different times. However, udev cannot detect any of these mounts or unmounts.