What can the U.S. government do against the whole of the E.U.? I suppose this decision means I can sell my Microsoft Office 2010 license on ebay. Yay! I never use the software anyway. (I wonder if I can sell ebooks too? Or maybe just the whole amazon account; ebooks and all.)
If you can sell a used car, or buy a resell home, than the idea that you can sell a software that is licensed (license transfer), is acceptable. You can probably sell an e-book when there is no proof that you did not make an illegal copy. I could actually sell my Windows software provided I destroy the partition that holds the restore copy.
#1 While Zuckerberg has money now, I want to see if that is still true 3 years from now. The stock market is a cruel mistress. #2 Ellison, Gates and Jobs are probably three of the most brilliant and ruthless people on the planet, who also lucked into a set of extraordinary circumstances (what would Jobs have been without Woz, and what would Gates have been without rich parents?) #3 Dropping out of school because your business is far more interesting and time consuming than school is entirely different from dropping out of school because "degrees don't correlate with success). #4 That's three people. Three people who made it without a degree. There are far more variables that impact success than can be properly identified and isolated through the anecdotal stories of three people. #5 That's not to say that degrees are necessary - they clearly aren't necessary, by the mathematical definition of the word. But they give you a hell of a leg up on the competition.
Anybody who says that degrees are useless is trying to sell you something else, or is trying to make sure that you won't become competition.
So in that sense, yes, it is a myth that successful entrepreneurs don't need degrees.
Here in my home province, which essentially has university costs of $2000 per year, parents are still directing their kids to professions such as plumbers, electricians, and trades. The view is that while free-trade has shipped jobs and jobs and jobs offshore, they are always able to work. And if they are successful, they will open small businesses to service one or more communities. I have never seen a bankrupt plumber. Have you?
Why do Americans like to step on companies that have great technology, that have secure communication, and were leaders. True their handheld device is older and the new one is slow to reach production market stage, but RIM has never cheated anyone, never patent trolled, has not gone to court to bar competitors, or done all the tricks to prevent competitors from coming to the marketplace.
Their service is reliable, if not more than most. You have a valid complaint if the handheld device is not of recent design. Other than that, what have you to say? One analogy I have is that your father should be shot because he does not know how to use an Iphone or a tablet. Your father does not have the right to hold a job because of the mentioned deficiencies.
Keep away from negative people, they are not your friends. The USA was not built by negative thinking people.
If you are in a condo high-rise or an apartment block with many meters mounted side-by-side, the additive effect of these dozen or even half dozen meters is significant enough to be leary of being near them. A single meter or two, is probably no worse than a wireless router signal level and somewhat less than your cellphone.
Yes, in quantities, they are dangerous, in singles or doubles, I would not loose sleep over it.
In the 70s careers tended to last 20+ years, in the 80s this number dropped to 6 years, The 90s came and distinctions blurred between jobs, careers, hobbies and survival. Buddy, we're 10+ years into the new millennium. Figure out what you need to do and quit looking at standard models. Can you work for yourself? Is there something you can manufacture or service you can perform without needing an overseer? Are members of your family old/strong enough to contribute to a family business? If you can quit relying on others for your prosperity, you can dump this whole useless line of worry. IT has been a bust for careers, compared to the promise of the 90s. We may even be forced into ludditism by coming solar storms in the next few years. Find a need or demand and fill it. Think outside the box. Learn self sufficiency and quit mourning money you threw at the last "career", it's gone and tomorrows challenges may not be helped by it. Dammit, you're a geek, get flexible and quit thinking about the obvious, overcrowded, overrated, overused path to a paycheck. Find something that people could pay cash for, too. If they don't know you have it, they can't tax it. If you really need a moment to think and a jumpstart, it may sound ridiculous on the face of it, but, join an MLM. Even if you aren't successful, you will have a low cost education in business,sales and people skills, self motivation and probably a cupboard full of vitamins. These ingredients, less the vitamins are vital to being self employed. Good luck with your search, may you satisfy your dreams along with your wallet. Keep the kids coming, that's how we achieve some immortality and offset the scumbags of the world, who are breeding too. Don't spend your time worrying, it can't help and will hurt. Replace worry with planning and get a good nights sleep.
First some comforting advice. Vote for Obamacare. That way the USA, the last holdout for universal medical care will join the world, and if by badluck you need some medical treatment, you and your family will not go bankrupt. With every opportunity you have, I would look to getting more courses under your belt, more knowledge and try to gain more skills, and do a lot of networking.
We in Canada can still work our 35 years in IT in one company. But you have to invest in yourself with skills that your employer can use. Be positive and if you follow some of the advice mentioned above, realize it is another lifestyle.
And the funny thing is that most people who write const char* foo really want char const * const foo. You don't want either the pointer or the data pointed at to change. However, almost nobody knows that, so even those who do just use the weaker const char* so people understand the code.
Hmm. I wonder why there's so much animosity towards C? It's a mystery.
Animosity is there because programming in C requires a non-lazy mind, to understand side-effects and items your function will not cover. There is no framework as one finds with C++, Python, C## or other oo languages.
I was an APL biggot in the late 70's and early 80's. I could get more done in an hour than an excel expert, a gui expert, a numerical analyst, a text manipulator expert could do if given a Monday Morning assignment.
I finished a project to convert several thousand TSO and JCL scripts in about three hours that in the contest with the System Programmers, took them about 10 days.
The SP guys wanted something that was low overhead. I needed something NOW. Surprisingly, my solution worked and was used for another 10 years in the department, until that support person retired. At that point, the language also retired with him.
I am trying to resurrect my skills in APL development. It is a language for fun and profit. No, it is not about Quake, but I could not figure out how to introduce a new topic.
You think punch cards are bad? IBM is till pushing Lotus Notes as an email application. Think I would prefer punch cards.
My retort is that a great design, Lotus notes, surpasses Sharepoint in ease of use and friendliness. And over time LN has improved significantly, particularly for a multi-lingual global enterprise.
In my experience with CLI, and GUI input, the latter for Root or for a system maintainer is safer to use.
Consider the command line rm *.o where the user forgot to put in the -i as rm -i *.o or even worse had rm * and then accidently hit the enter key.
But with gui interface, one can tag the files to be deleted, one issues the delete against those files, and voila -- much lower chance of errors. When Fedora and Ubuntu took away root from the GUI logon, I went through hoops to reinstate it.
On the other hand, running tar -cvf tarfile.tar.gz directory is very hard to do with a gui interface.
Yet for bash scripts, and for certain other utilities, CLI is the best.
I consider a CL input as being the multitude of fields on a form. I consider that somewhere the system has to accept some commands that, if the commands were given verbally, or via mouse clicks, would not have the desired effect.
I also write and test c code using command line and makefiles. Do we need CLI for general users? With audio input and touch screens, I would say no. Would we need it as system administrators? Here I would say definitely.
I for one look forward to our new DMV styled medical overlords. I hope I don't have to visit a medical center with an artery spouting blood....and get put at the back of the line because my paperwork wasn't filled out quite right.
You have the same service in other countries as in the USA, with the addition of a Triage. If you go to get asplinter removed from your bum, you will be below priority to the person with a gash, with a stroke, with any non frivolous reason for going to a hospital.
In Canada and other countries, nobody dies from lack of service. True, some services may take longer than what it takes in the USA, but then we have doctors who will see you the same day. In this case bring your wallets.
My brother-in-law got the splinter while in Florida. Went to the hospital clinic to have it removed. He ws given a blood test, and received a bill for over 1000 dollars. Some for the test, some to read the test results, and some co-signed doctors whose signature was required to stop a potential lawsuite.
Medicine in the USA is expensive because of lawsuits for supposed malpractice. Ergo you pay for needless tests just to protect the health car deliverer
Yes, I am sure that is what is going to happen. The Tea Party called, and they want their hysterical idiocy back.
This is why the right wing comes off like a pack of retarded children. They take the perfectly acceptable point of view that government should be minimalistic and non-intrusive, and warp it until they look like a pack of asylum escapees.
Morgan Stanley Financial house reported that there are too many billionaires in the world, and therefore, the rich will accumulate more wealth, and the others, will find their standard of living dropping substantially.
Morgan Stanley stated that there must be some wealth distribution and to do it, the rich must be taxed or forced into doing more socially.
Robin Hood is going to be the next US President, whoever it turns out to be.
Remember, most of the Arizona land belonged to the indians and the Mexicans, including Nevada, California. The USA was established by multi-nationals and by usurping the land from the indigenous people.
Today, the USA is in competition for brains. Immigrants may not have classical USA education, but they certainly have high IQ and a desire to build a future for their family, and hence for the betterment of the USA.
These immigrants in general are Christian, share the same values as other Christians, and do become fantastic citizens.
Instead of returning them to their country, send them to Canada, we can use them to build our tolerant melting-pot society. By the way, we are brimming with culture, I read/write and speak English, French, and Spanish, thanks to the diversity of our wonderful society. I enjoy cooking from all nationalities, singing, and sharing experiences with them. And they are my best software engineers.
What about tourists, either visiting or passing through. They may not have an Arizona license. Suppose they arrest someone who cannot immediately prove they are legal. Who pays? I carry my subway pass which has my picture. That is sufficient for me as identification. What if you forget your wallet with id at home?
AMD and Linux: It is much more likely that MS will go with Intel for their new systems. MS has stated that they intend to make their own machines (a la Apple). Where will that leave AMD? I guess that they may not even have a chance to have their software or hardware as a replacement for the Intel products.
If the above is true, then AMD should be at least considering to document the specs for Linux. The fear of patent lawsuits is a fear that all software vendors have today, AMD or Nvidia or Intel or another software vendor has to worry about the trolls. That fear is most probably the reason there is not better help from video card vendors. The algorithms to get performance from the GPUs is probably well known. I am thinking that the logic differences within the AMD and Nvidia cards is trivial.
Because Apple doesn't care if you load Linux - they're a hardware company (well, user experience company, but anyways). You've already bought their hardware and software. But Microsoft, which has the x86/x64 non-Mac world by its balls, is a software company, so they will do things that strategically make non-Windows software harder. So a similarly-capable Acer, as an example, is going to be more locked down than your Mac.
Hence, I'm slowly finding myself thinking of buying Mac hardware again, even given the higher-than-I-need quality (and price).
With Microsoft indicating that they are moving to manufacture their own hardware, there will be a scramble to have alternate operating systems that use any "standard" motherboard. Say hello to all the MB manufacturers out there with better stuff than MS and with Linux pre-installed on their systems. Oh yes, you could see the biggest manufacturer doing an exclusive for MS, but he will open a subsiduary under a new trade name, for non MS motherboards.
That's what I like about it. They're not even paying lip service to that bullshit official purpose. Red Hat made it sound like they have drank some of the Koolaide, with all their worrying about how the person who owns the computer might abuse an unsigned module to take control of their computer.
Once you're running your bootloader, then the issue is over. There is no need to further check for any other signatures or try to guarantee that the owner can't run their own code. You have satisfied the requirement and thereby gotten the computer to work.
For a home computer (what UBUNTU is), your statement makes perfect sense. However, for a cluster or even a 24/7 server, you would like confirmation that all critical software is signed. I guess too that if the UBUNTU loader can do a sha256sum of its critical modules and compare that value to some table entry, it would be good enough, until... until sha256sum itself is compromised.
Perhaps he has too many enemies and needs a safe haven, from where he an plot his next devious action. His yacht was too confining. I believe it was a too hundred footer, the island should be big enough in which to get lost.
One way to get more pertinent responses is for the Linux community to support a competitor to NVIDIA, and to publicize it with reasons why the community is so doing. And make certain the hardware lists reflect the same as well. Long before sales drop to zero for Linux, we should expect better cooperation. I like Intel and AMD hardware for Linux graphics.
My Intel drivers have worked superbly for Linux since I purchased the Intel Mother Board. If I buy another MB, I hope to have Intel as the driver supplier again.
I also have ATI, and it works for the 3d stuff that I look at. I do not write 3d code, so that is ok for me.
I think that hasn't been true in a long time. You might be able to get a similarly spec'ed laptop if you didn't care about form-factor or style that much, but then it's not really the same product. The new Mac Book Pro has taken things even further by giving the best resolution available for the money. Doing a quick price comparison can show you they aren't overpriced at all. The Dell Ultrabook XPS 13 currently retails for $999, while the Mac Book Air 13" retails at $1199. Of course the Mac is more, but it has a 1400x900 screen as opposed to 720p resolution, 1.8GHz CPU as opposed to 1.6GHz CPU and a height of 0.68 inches vs. 0.71 inches. The rest of the main features seem to be about the same, and while some may say, what's the difference between.68 and.71 inches, well, it's still 5%, which takes quite a lot of engineering to get rid of when you are looking at laptops of this size. Mac laptops are quite competitively priced, the only problem is they've decided not to make $400 laptops. Which is fine, because there is no money to be made in that market anyway.
It comes with power supply, but did not indicate it came with batteries.
One of the requirements of UEFI secure boot is that your system has to be able to go online to validate a certificate. What if you are in a secure environment without www internet access? I have not read anywhere that this UEFI system will not require the Internet for validation.
Here is the big weakness with UEFI. With UEFI, certification, your system is not asking if another system is OK, your system is going to Verizon certificate authority to see if your software is OK.
All you have to do is user your router to fake the authority. You do IP and port forwarding, to your own certificate server and just do what CA does and that's it.
And once you are validated, the Linux community can set up it's own secure boot UEFI certificates and licenses.
So where are the reviews that actually challenge the hypothesis - or is that untouchable?
Reviews don't do that; competing hypotheses do. In the world of science, a competing hypothesis overtakes the consensus if and only if it explains everything the old system could and more that it couldn't. Science demands alternative explanations that solve inconsistencies; finding a problem with the consensus is only the first step, and denialists are stuck there.
Is there another idea, and that due to global warming, the ability of the atmosphere to hold water is diminished, and that water is now in the ocean. We have had much higher spring time temperatures these past years and as well much more rain in bursts, with flash flooding. The old days of drizzle are gone. Yup, less moisture in the atmosphere due to GW.
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What can the U.S. government do against the whole of the E.U.? I suppose this decision means I can sell my Microsoft Office 2010 license on ebay. Yay! I never use the software anyway. (I wonder if I can sell ebooks too? Or maybe just the whole amazon account; ebooks and all.)
If you can sell a used car, or buy a resell home, than the idea that you can sell a software that is licensed (license transfer), is acceptable. You can probably sell an e-book when there is no proof that you did not make an illegal copy. I could actually sell my Windows software provided I destroy the partition that holds the restore copy.
#1 While Zuckerberg has money now, I want to see if that is still true 3 years from now. The stock market is a cruel mistress.
#2 Ellison, Gates and Jobs are probably three of the most brilliant and ruthless people on the planet, who also lucked into a set of extraordinary circumstances (what would Jobs have been without Woz, and what would Gates have been without rich parents?)
#3 Dropping out of school because your business is far more interesting and time consuming than school is entirely different from dropping out of school because "degrees don't correlate with success).
#4 That's three people. Three people who made it without a degree. There are far more variables that impact success than can be properly identified and isolated through the anecdotal stories of three people.
#5 That's not to say that degrees are necessary - they clearly aren't necessary, by the mathematical definition of the word. But they give you a hell of a leg up on the competition.
Anybody who says that degrees are useless is trying to sell you something else, or is trying to make sure that you won't become competition.
So in that sense, yes, it is a myth that successful entrepreneurs don't need degrees.
Here in my home province, which essentially has university costs of $2000 per year, parents are still directing their kids to professions such as plumbers, electricians, and trades. The view is that while free-trade has shipped jobs and jobs and jobs offshore, they are always able to work. And if they are successful, they will open small businesses to service one or more communities. I have never seen a bankrupt plumber. Have you?
Why do Americans like to step on companies that have great technology, that have secure communication, and were leaders. True their handheld device is older and the new one is slow to reach production market stage, but RIM has never cheated anyone, never patent trolled, has not gone to court to bar competitors, or done all the tricks to prevent competitors from coming to the marketplace.
Their service is reliable, if not more than most.
You have a valid complaint if the handheld device is not of recent design. Other than that, what have you to say?
One analogy I have is that your father should be shot because he does not know how to use an Iphone or a tablet. Your father does not have the right to hold a job because of the mentioned deficiencies.
Keep away from negative people, they are not your friends. The USA was not built by negative thinking people.
If you are in a condo high-rise or an apartment block with many meters mounted side-by-side, the additive effect of these dozen or even half dozen meters is significant enough to be leary of being near them. A single meter or two, is probably no worse than a wireless router signal level and somewhat less than your cellphone.
Yes, in quantities, they are dangerous, in singles or doubles, I would not loose sleep over it.
In the 70s careers tended to last 20+ years, in the 80s this number dropped to 6 years, The 90s came and distinctions blurred between jobs, careers, hobbies and survival. Buddy, we're 10+ years into the new millennium. Figure out what you need to do and quit looking at standard models.
Can you work for yourself?
Is there something you can manufacture or service you can perform without needing an overseer?
Are members of your family old/strong enough to contribute to a family business?
If you can quit relying on others for your prosperity, you can dump this whole useless line of worry.
IT has been a bust for careers, compared to the promise of the 90s. We may even be forced into ludditism by coming solar storms in the next few years.
Find a need or demand and fill it. Think outside the box. Learn self sufficiency and quit mourning money you threw at the last "career", it's gone and tomorrows challenges may not be helped by it. Dammit, you're a geek, get flexible and quit thinking about the obvious, overcrowded, overrated, overused path to a paycheck. Find something that people could pay cash for, too. If they don't know you have it, they can't tax it.
If you really need a moment to think and a jumpstart, it may sound ridiculous on the face of it, but, join an MLM. Even if you aren't successful, you will have a low cost education in business,sales and people skills, self motivation and probably a cupboard full of vitamins. These ingredients, less the vitamins are vital to being self employed.
Good luck with your search, may you satisfy your dreams along with your wallet.
Keep the kids coming, that's how we achieve some immortality and offset the scumbags of the world, who are breeding too.
Don't spend your time worrying, it can't help and will hurt. Replace worry with planning and get a good nights sleep.
First some comforting advice. Vote for Obamacare. That way the USA, the last holdout for universal medical care will join the world, and if by badluck you need some medical treatment, you and your family will not go bankrupt.
With every opportunity you have, I would look to getting more courses under your belt, more knowledge and try to gain more skills, and do a lot of networking.
We in Canada can still work our 35 years in IT in one company. But you have to invest in yourself with skills that your employer can use. Be positive and if you follow some of the advice mentioned above, realize it is another lifestyle.
And the funny thing is that most people who write const char* foo really want char const * const foo. You don't want either the pointer or the data pointed at to change. However, almost nobody knows that, so even those who do just use the weaker const char* so people understand the code.
Hmm. I wonder why there's so much animosity towards C? It's a mystery.
Animosity is there because programming in C requires a non-lazy mind, to understand side-effects and items your function will not cover.
There is no framework as one finds with C++, Python, C## or other oo languages.
I was an APL biggot in the late 70's and early 80's. I could get more done in an hour than an excel expert, a gui expert, a numerical analyst, a text manipulator expert could do if given a Monday Morning assignment.
I finished a project to convert several thousand TSO and JCL scripts in about three hours that in the contest with the System Programmers, took them about 10 days.
The SP guys wanted something that was low overhead. I needed something NOW. Surprisingly, my solution worked and was used for another 10 years in the department, until that support person retired. At that point, the language also retired with him.
I am trying to resurrect my skills in APL development. It is a language for fun and profit. No, it is not about Quake, but I could not figure out how to introduce a new topic.
You think punch cards are bad? IBM is till pushing Lotus Notes as an email application.
Think I would prefer punch cards.
My retort is that a great design, Lotus notes, surpasses Sharepoint in ease of use and friendliness.
And over time LN has improved significantly, particularly for a multi-lingual global enterprise.
Enjoy July 3rd Doonsbury cartoon.
In my experience with CLI, and GUI input, the latter for Root or for a system maintainer is safer to use.
Consider the command line rm *.o where the user forgot to put in the -i as rm -i *.o or even worse had rm * and then accidently hit the enter key.
But with gui interface, one can tag the files to be deleted, one issues the delete against those files, and voila -- much lower chance of errors.
When Fedora and Ubuntu took away root from the GUI logon, I went through hoops to reinstate it.
On the other hand, running tar -cvf tarfile.tar.gz directory is very hard to do with a gui interface.
Yet for bash scripts, and for certain other utilities, CLI is the best.
I consider a CL input as being the multitude of fields on a form. I consider that somewhere the system has to accept some commands that, if the commands were given verbally, or via mouse clicks, would not have the desired effect.
I also write and test c code using command line and makefiles. Do we need CLI for general users? With audio input and touch screens, I would say no. Would we need it as system administrators? Here I would say definitely.
I for one look forward to our new DMV styled medical overlords. I hope I don't have to visit a medical center with an artery spouting blood....and get put at the back of the line because my paperwork wasn't filled out quite right.
You have the same service in other countries as in the USA, with the addition of a Triage. If you go to get asplinter removed from your bum, you will be below priority to the person with a gash, with a stroke, with any non frivolous reason for going to a hospital.
In Canada and other countries, nobody dies from lack of service. True, some services may take longer than what it takes in the USA, but then we have doctors who will see you the same day. In this case bring your wallets.
My brother-in-law got the splinter while in Florida. Went to the hospital clinic to have it removed. He ws given a blood test, and received a bill for over 1000 dollars. Some for the test, some to read the test results, and some co-signed doctors whose signature was required to stop a potential lawsuite.
Medicine in the USA is expensive because of lawsuits for supposed malpractice. Ergo you pay for needless tests just to protect the health car deliverer
Yes, I am sure that is what is going to happen. The Tea Party called, and they want their hysterical idiocy back.
This is why the right wing comes off like a pack of retarded children. They take the perfectly acceptable point of view that government should be minimalistic and non-intrusive, and warp it until they look like a pack of asylum escapees.
Morgan Stanley Financial house reported that there are too many billionaires in the world, and therefore, the rich will accumulate more wealth, and the others, will find their standard of living dropping substantially.
Morgan Stanley stated that there must be some wealth distribution and to do it, the rich must be taxed or forced into doing more socially.
Robin Hood is going to be the next US President, whoever it turns out to be.
Remember, most of the Arizona land belonged to the indians and the Mexicans, including Nevada, California. The USA was established by multi-nationals and by usurping the land from the indigenous people.
Today, the USA is in competition for brains. Immigrants may not have classical USA education, but they certainly have high IQ and a desire to build a future for their family, and hence for the betterment of the USA.
These immigrants in general are Christian, share the same values as other Christians, and do become fantastic citizens.
Instead of returning them to their country, send them to Canada, we can use them to build our tolerant melting-pot society.
By the way, we are brimming with culture, I read/write and speak English, French, and Spanish, thanks to the diversity of our wonderful society. I enjoy cooking from all nationalities, singing, and sharing experiences with them. And they are my best software engineers.
What about tourists, either visiting or passing through. They may not have an Arizona license.
Suppose they arrest someone who cannot immediately prove they are legal. Who pays?
I carry my subway pass which has my picture. That is sufficient for me as identification.
What if you forget your wallet with id at home?
Home fucking is killing prostitution.
Ahh wtf, Do you really mean Home Sex is killing prostitution. The F word is so overused as to not have any sexual connotation.
AMD and Linux: It is much more likely that MS will go with Intel for their new systems. MS has stated that they intend to make their own machines (a la Apple).
Where will that leave AMD? I guess that they may not even have a chance to have their software or hardware as a replacement for the Intel products.
If the above is true, then AMD should be at least considering to document the specs for Linux. The fear of patent lawsuits is a fear that all software vendors have today, AMD or Nvidia or Intel or another software vendor has to worry about the trolls. That fear is most probably the reason there is not better help from video card vendors. The algorithms to get performance from the GPUs is probably well known. I am thinking that the logic differences within the AMD and Nvidia cards is trivial.
Because Apple doesn't care if you load Linux - they're a hardware company (well, user experience company, but anyways). You've already bought their hardware and software. But Microsoft, which has the x86/x64 non-Mac world by its balls, is a software company, so they will do things that strategically make non-Windows software harder. So a similarly-capable Acer, as an example, is going to be more locked down than your Mac.
Hence, I'm slowly finding myself thinking of buying Mac hardware again, even given the higher-than-I-need quality (and price).
With Microsoft indicating that they are moving to manufacture their own hardware, there will be a scramble to have alternate operating systems that use any "standard" motherboard. Say hello to all the MB manufacturers out there with better stuff than MS and with Linux pre-installed on their systems. Oh yes, you could see the biggest manufacturer doing an exclusive for MS, but he will open a subsiduary under a new trade name, for non MS motherboards.
Look to see MS dropping in popularity.
That's what I like about it. They're not even paying lip service to that bullshit official purpose. Red Hat made it sound like they have drank some of the Koolaide, with all their worrying about how the person who owns the computer might abuse an unsigned module to take control of their computer.
Once you're running your bootloader, then the issue is over. There is no need to further check for any other signatures or try to guarantee that the owner can't run their own code. You have satisfied the requirement and thereby gotten the computer to work.
For a home computer (what UBUNTU is), your statement makes perfect sense. However, for a cluster or even a 24/7 server, you would like confirmation that all critical software is signed. I guess too that if the UBUNTU loader can do a sha256sum of its critical modules and compare that value to some table entry, it would be good enough, until... until sha256sum itself is compromised.
Considering that Larry Ellison is buying himself a frikking island, perhaps the slap in the face finally pushed him into super-villainy...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/20/larry-ellisons-island-ora_n_1614130.html
Perhaps he has too many enemies and needs a safe haven, from where he an plot his next devious action. His yacht was too confining. I believe it was a too hundred footer, the island should be big enough in which to get lost.
One way to get more pertinent responses is for the Linux community to support a competitor to NVIDIA, and to publicize it with reasons why the community is so doing.
And make certain the hardware lists reflect the same as well. Long before sales drop to zero for Linux, we should expect better cooperation. I like Intel and AMD hardware for Linux graphics.
My Intel drivers have worked superbly for Linux since I purchased the Intel Mother Board. If I buy another MB, I hope to have Intel as the driver supplier again.
I also have ATI, and it works for the 3d stuff that I look at. I do not write 3d code, so that is ok for me.
I think that hasn't been true in a long time. You might be able to get a similarly spec'ed laptop if you didn't care about form-factor or style that much, but then it's not really the same product. The new Mac Book Pro has taken things even further by giving the best resolution available for the money. Doing a quick price comparison can show you they aren't overpriced at all. The Dell Ultrabook XPS 13 currently retails for $999, while the Mac Book Air 13" retails at $1199. Of course the Mac is more, but it has a 1400x900 screen as opposed to 720p resolution, 1.8GHz CPU as opposed to 1.6GHz CPU and a height of 0.68 inches vs. 0.71 inches. The rest of the main features seem to be about the same, and while some may say, what's the difference between .68 and .71 inches, well, it's still 5%, which takes quite a lot of engineering to get rid of when you are looking at laptops of this size. Mac laptops are quite competitively priced, the only problem is they've decided not to make $400 laptops. Which is fine, because there is no money to be made in that market anyway.
It comes with power supply, but did not indicate it came with batteries.
Why do pilots need to carry guns? The pilot compartments are sealed. A terrorist knows that, Would he blow himself up in mid-air? Who knows?
However, there could be a loaded gun on a wall in the pilot's cabin, inside a glass case. Strike glass to extract loaded gun.
Is there is a much simpler and safer solution to pilots carrying guns?
One of the requirements of UEFI secure boot is that your system has to be able to go online to validate a certificate. What if you are in a secure environment without www internet access? I have not read anywhere that this UEFI system will not require the Internet for validation.
Here is the big weakness with UEFI. With UEFI, certification, your system is not asking if another system is OK, your system is going to Verizon certificate authority to see if your software is OK.
All you have to do is user your router to fake the authority. You do IP and port forwarding, to your own certificate server and just do what CA does and that's it.
And once you are validated, the Linux community can set up it's own secure boot UEFI certificates and licenses.
So where are the reviews that actually challenge the hypothesis - or is that untouchable?
Reviews don't do that; competing hypotheses do. In the world of science, a competing hypothesis overtakes the consensus if and only if it explains everything the old system could and more that it couldn't. Science demands alternative explanations that solve inconsistencies; finding a problem with the consensus is only the first step, and denialists are stuck there.
Is there another idea, and that due to global warming, the ability of the atmosphere to hold water is diminished, and that water is now in the ocean. We have had much higher spring time temperatures these past years and as well much more rain in bursts, with flash flooding. The old days of drizzle are gone. Yup, less moisture in the atmosphere due to GW.