"
Both are the first baby steps on the road to self-determination and freedom for the people in China.
"
Uh... No. Thousands of Man and Woman sized steps were taken decades ago in Tienanmen Square. The government, using agents from distant areas (less likely to have relatives in the crowd), subsequently mowed them down with machine guns after several days of peaceful protests. Decades later, Google for years provided that same government the technology to keep information about that event from the people for several years. To and including today.
Go watch the Ted Koppel Discovery Channel documentary on China, where he asks a group of a dozen students about the incident. For about a minute it is blank stares as if no one has any idea what he is talking about. Then the camera catches one of them whisper "84" into the ears of the other.
China's totalitarian censorship tactics create a dissociated personality in their citizens, where they have to 'DoubleThink' in order to have a conversation about actual reality. I for one after the last decade of the patriot act am a lot less certain that the US is all that much better, but on the face, it certainly seems to be.
The time for baby steps is long over. There was a new hope in Tienanment Square, then the Empire struck back. The question is whether or not there will be a return of the Jedi. (several years after those tech Jedi appeared to have aligned themselves with the dark side)
My point was using the gootube example to tilt at windmills criticizing global corruption and hypocrisy. I.e. not so much about the damage done in this specific incident, but the damage done by example it sets. The phrase "moral hazard" relates to the danger from society following the bad example in general, not from the damage in the specific case.
Somehow the banks got to eat their cake, and then have it too, and the world had to swallow that MH because allegedly we'd all be eating garbage now otherwise. Then, when it came to bailing out underwater home owners and the poor/homeless, that MH couldn't be accepted (or so we were told) because then people wouldn't want to work for a living, instead just looking to be bailed out.
It's not hard, if you're aiming to debate that side of the argument, to come up with ways that YT winning wasn't necessarily the best outcome here. Look for instance to the absence of a non-patent-encumbered codec making it into html5. It seems to me that monetary interests are succeeding quite well in sinking their commercial fangs into what is the most blatantly obvious use of the high speed internet. There is no innovation involved with seeing 20 years ago that the internet would end up as a many-to-many video delivery service. The fact that monetary interests keen on keeping their advertising channels tapped into the poor's bedrooms, have thwarted the ability of non-megacorps to do pure ad-free many-to-many video... sucks in my opinion.
I know I'm not being terribly coherent, but I think I'm getting my point across. The point being that even as technology advances to the point that everyone _should_ be able to have an ad-free cell-phone with unlimited simple global calling, for a ridiculously cheap price (say $20/yr), the telcos will use every "Evil" means at their disposal to prevent that from happening, and keep the price at $20/mo. Ditto for cable TV. Ditto for content that short of disney-lawyers would have been in the public domain by now, and whose commercial value is in absolutely no way contributing to the artistic community in the way that IP rights were originally meant to foster.
But again, this is all tilting at windmills... Google will continue operating under the attitude of utilizing an interpretation of fair-use, that is as laughable as Yoo's interpretation of the definition of 'torture'. No matter how sadly laughably wrong either of them may be, there is really no stopping them.
Your analysis that this did not seriously hurt the content providers, despite being "Evil", is I think, entirely accurate.
But what needs to be highlighted is the groups it DID hurt. It DID hurt any company, that for reasons of ethics, or not being able to afford as many lawyers as Google, chose to pursue business models that did not involve using "Evil" as a kind of bridge-loan to carry their company to success. My older brother is a VP at Google, and I am pretty disappointed with these attitudes from him, from Google, and more importantly, from the world's society and economy in general. I don't judge him harshly, because I absolutely do see that Google here is just playing the money game the way the money game is played. Sure, it is a moral hazard that Google used their facilitation of the oppression of human rights in China to leverage their position of corporate strength today. Sure it is a moral hazard that even if years later, they stop that "Evil", and stop the "Evil" of knowingly leveraging copyright infringers to gain momentum and market share.
Bottom line, it's a sad sad world, and everywhere you look, the good guys that play by the rules get crushed monetarily by the players who are willing to break the rules, even if years later after they have established themselves and are under more scrutiny, have to start playing by the rules. I view Google's malfeasance here as but a tiny fraction compared to what happened with the banks and the bailouts.
I'd say that it's going to get worse as the decades go by, but really, if you look at sexist and racist oppression, these moral hazards don't look all that scary. The world will muddle through. Fringe elements will commit terrorist acts. Probably ending up like the comical world of the movie Brazil. I.e. the occasional terrorist bomb will be as common as a traffic accident and ignored. With dental torturers getting the last laugh, and the tortured retreating to the safety of fantasies.
It comes with a fedora-11 derived LiveUSB appliance distribution that boots straight into the open source rakarrack f/x processor. Along with a server to listen via wifi to the NDS which runs a homebrew remote control application, to control changing f/x presets and mapping 2 parameters to the X and Y of the touchscreen.
100% open source, self hosting (modify and recompile any or every part without downloading anything)
My solution to this problem that I've been working on for years, but still has further to go is LiveDVD linux distribution, that includes all the source code to rebuild itself (the iso image) from scratch. Add to that, a cool interaction with some NDS homebrew, including all the source and compilers needed to modify that. Currently what I have is a fedora derived LiveDVD/USB that boots a PC into an electric guitar-f/x preamp, which when combined with speakers and a guitar, lets you easily start jamming with Rakarrack. For the NDS homebrew side, I have an application that lets the NDS talk via wifi to control Rakarrack in realtime. A TouchScreenWhammyPad implementation.
For the long term goal to achieve what you described, I intend to add more simple GPL homebrew games, and a book walking a kid through the process of tweaking some little aspects of the existing games, maybe just text strings. That would get them familiar with the development process. Then maybe a complete tutorial implementing tic-tac-toe or such (from good overcommented template code of course).
Anyone else (unemployed and looking like me) feel like a disturbing portion of the job market is constituted of 'blame taking positions'?
It's probably paranoia, but I feel like the businessworld is composed of corrupt people who will lie and bullshit, and then the poor saps that get stuck with the 'blame taking positions'.
In my youth, I had naive libertarian beliefs about talented and competent people winning out in the free market against those types. Now that I've witnessed the naked annihilation of even the illusion of capitalism, via the bank bailouts... I just have no real hope that there is any way to make a living without either being one of those bullshitters, or poor blame taking saps. I guess the honorable thing is to just accept a sequence of blame taking jobs, and survive and get fed until we see a better age.
You sound dangerously close to the kind of young people screwing up Linux distributions. But I do find the core of this idea to be brilliant. I've had similar thoughts in the past, but you've really nailed the heart of the issue. I would love to see a niche distro do this, to let the idea catch on (somehow finding yourself with the authority to make it a new default for a mainstream distro, would be criminal however).
I suppose one implementation would be a filesystem, that stores metadata of application state along with each file. Really, the userspace memory image of the application with the file open would be overkill sufficient. And OS smarts along the lines of VMWware/recent-linux memory de-duplication.
If you had browser uptimes that averaged weeks, and performed roughly a dozen google searches a day, you'd see it isn't as simple as that. (auto deleting cookies at end of session/exit)
Sure, I can vote with my feet. I certainly will for my habit of 'wikipedia' prefixed google searches that seemed to shave a few tenths of seconds over the overall latency, versus native wikipedia search. But the problem is that google is google because they are a damn good search engine. Having to change my use due to a new pro/con balance will hurt. I know several people that work there. I'd like to like google. But it's gotten harder over the years, and this feels like the tipping point to me.
Lightning fast (non personalized) high quality search results were why I got addicted to them in the first place nearly a decade ago. First usenet, now google. Next thing you know, slashdot will require you to set a cookie, to opt-out of cookies being used to by default serve you a selection of articles based on algorithms. Algorithms approved by their paying advertisers. Algorithms with knowledge of your browsing history. It's sad. It's not what I want.
The point of the original poster was not about google or your ISP nefariously spying on you. The poster is clearly that paranoid already. The point was about not wanting your search results skewed by previous searches, _by default_.
With browser uptimes of weeks and a dozen plus searches a day, that quickly adds up to very skewed results for each subsequent search. Auto-deleting of cookies on browser close, or 'allow cookie for session' is not enough.
I may be in the Global Warming alarmist camp, but I don't want my search results for scientific data skewed by google's knowledge of my prejudice gleamed from prior search terms.
Forcing users to set a cookie in order to opt-out of having search results skewed by cookie tracking, is absolutely rich.
While probably not a solution to the original problem, an answer to the specific question about native ext2 images instead of LiveCD iso images is this-
The Fedora and CentOS LiveCDs do contain a native ext3/4 filesystem image embedded within a squashfs image. The normal Fedora anaconda/liveinst installer works by copying this image directly to the target destination then using resize2fs to expand it to the destination's size.
My ZyX-LiveInstaller at http://filteredperception.org/ goes one further and does this process with the running copy-on-write version of the filesystem, allowing for a rebootless LiveOS installation.
But of course these LiveCD sized filesystems are on the order of 2G (compressed about 3:1 by squashfs). You can probably find a minimal spin that brings that down a bit, but not enough for your needs. A real answer of course is as others have said- get a distro of the same vintage. Linus himself commented on the bloat recently didn't he?
"Linux is a great product, and that is the result of the magnificent work of all the coders and contributers. But sometimes they just act like children."
When used in this sense, it is equally valid to say that everyone on the planet acts like children. Really, it is the control freaks that are good at repressing their inner child that worry me the most. They come off as professional, work their way into positions of real power an authority, and then you discover how much they can _really_ screw things up for the rest of us.
I for one am reassured by Obama's stupid 'stupid' comment. Sure, it was stupid of him, but it convinces me he isn't going to do anything WW3 level stupid because he can no longer repress every natural aspect of his human nature.
yeah, looking at the (current) wikipedia breakdown, I guess 'declarative' would have been the better choice. Though under declarative they only have 'functional' and 'goal-oriented' as members of that class, with the latter not yet having a wikipedia page yet. So I don't think 'functional' is too bad a choice. In fact, when I consider the classes of programmings from the best intuitive definitions of the words, I think 'functional' is better at conveying the meaning to people familiar with traditional imperative programming (who have used 'functions' before), than 'declarative'.
Yeah, that was all pretty much stuff I've read before. You mention 'fraught' which was I wanted it boiled down to- what product is available _today_ that can use this feature. Likewise, I do have an rt2500usb adapter, and didn't see any joy with it when trying 'iwconfig device mode master'. So any information on whether or not the output of that command would change based on the kernel would be helpful.
Or just shoot down my theory that that is a valid test. I believe I started doing that after reading the links you mentioned, and believing that if I saw success, then, and only then would it be worth spending time getting the tools and perhaps patching the kernel.
Also, maybe some essential info about why or whether support is in fact limited to chipsets. I.e. is it really physically impossible to 'fake' a real AP when you have the ability to read and write raw 802.11 packets? What actual hardware are these(?) chipsets giving us that makes something possible that wouldn't be without the hardware.
Basically my real issue is NDS homebrew, whose toolchain currently only supports AP mode, and not ad-hoc. There are libraries(liblobby) which sound like they crudely achieve the quasi-ad-hoc mode that nintendo uses for its games, but I don't want to invest the time with those, or writing my own crude-hack, until I have a better understanding of what truly are the hardware issues involved, especially because my interest is in the nds as a universal cloud device that could control any PC in any arbitrary way. Right now I just dedicate an AP to the task, but I would love it if I didn't have to (and from my vague knowledge, I'm sure what I want is possible, and was hoping this was a good quick first pass)
Someone- please tell me what usb wifi adapter product can be used to make this happen? I have searched and found some related docs that mention support being limited to a couple chipsets. Which always confused my too-much-but-too-little networking knowledge. The git commit message here mentions nothing about hardware support limits. My prior test, perhaps invalid, was to take a fedora-9 box, buy several usb adapters, and type "iwconfig bla mode master" hoping for success, but never seeing success. I always thought this was because the prism2 or whatever supported chipsets were rare, but now maybe I'm thinking the code wasn't in the kernel yet??? Please someone, give me a link to a newegg or amazon usb product, and the essence of the quick howto.
If that is correct, then my skepticism was correct as well. From your link-
" [This is the text of the 1987 United States Supreme Court decision striking down a Louisiana law that required if evolution is taught in public schools then creationism must also be taught. "
Which is entirely different than what the top post said-
" remember that the Supreme Court has declared teaching creationism an unconstitutional imposition of religion. "
I understand that many of my fellow democrats suffer from *severe* dogmatism on this issue, but if you can just look at those two quotes and realize that the former has zilch to do with any particular teacher deciding to teach creationism in any random classroom on any random day of the schoolyear. Which is precisely what the latter quote suggested that SCOTUS outlawed.
It seems to me that this article is simultaneously drawing attention to an issue, while fueling the flames of the issue. I.e. "There is this huge problem of employees doing bad things because they are untrusted".
Yeah, OK. Thanks again slashdot editors. Like accountants whose job gives them the ability to hide wreckless risk-taking to beef up their current performance at the expense of the collapse that will happen after they have taken their bonuses and left the company, aren't a bigger threat to the businesses of the world.
if you fast forward to the end of the tutorial videos, IMO you see sufficient video of 'it working'. I haven't yet downloaded it and tried the examples, but honestly even if the 3 tutorial examples were all there is, I'd still be impressed.
I was just thinking about interactive audio visualizations for a kick ass guitar appliance. I ran across fluxus which I'd never heard of before, but looks to be a killer app. Check out the movies here.
Playing mp3s/oggs, datebook, email, voip, without being chained to proprietary software and service. This is a threat to nintendo that the r4 combined with homebrew and OSS enable. Or home automation (think touchpad lighting controls and voip intercom panels located throughout the house that can display video from wifi security cameras).
This may well be about piracy. But even if piracy were impossible with this device, I wouldn't put it past Nintendo to crack down because they want the control to deliver software that does the above at their leisure, and not have to compete with the fact that it is really pretty easy to simply compile OSS that does the above on this device. And yes, I have written my own homebrew, and really enjoyed the OSless bare-metalness of it (so please don't bother with the - 'your an idiot, it's not just a recompile' comment. People have worked hard to port OSS and write new OSS. And seeing that swept under the rug, even if the driving issue is piracy, is a very sad thing.
If this comment is accurate, please mod it up. It adds needed clarification to the understanding of the issue one gets reading the comments. I.e. this makes it sound like there is a scenario where you lose your named.conf, as opposed to the story and the comments above that all make it sound like the only negative is that your conf gets moved to.rpmsave. (yes, I understand the whole caching-nameserver aspect. I however don't think it's counterintuitive for an inexperienced admin to think that they could have that package installed, and still run their own domains. Now, back in the day or distro when the package was named caching-*only*-nameserver... maybe... But even still, I think RH should support the scenario where someone installs caching-nameserver, then reads docs, then extends their config files so that their system is providing a caching-nameserver AND authoritative or secondary for things, and then when they update to errata, their config should not get blown away. $0.02...)
Slashdot Mirror
I stopped reading at 'fraud proof'. If it's gonna happen, it'll happen. But 'fraud proof' is a joke.
-SonicDawg
"
Both are the first baby steps on the road to self-determination and freedom for the people in China.
"
Uh... No. Thousands of Man and Woman sized steps were taken decades ago in Tienanmen Square. The government, using agents from distant areas (less likely to have relatives in the crowd), subsequently mowed them down with machine guns after several days of peaceful protests. Decades later, Google for years provided that same government the technology to keep information about that event from the people for several years. To and including today.
Go watch the Ted Koppel Discovery Channel documentary on China, where he asks a group of a dozen students about the incident. For about a minute it is blank stares as if no one has any idea what he is talking about. Then the camera catches one of them whisper "84" into the ears of the other.
China's totalitarian censorship tactics create a dissociated personality in their citizens, where they have to 'DoubleThink' in order to have a conversation about actual reality. I for one after the last decade of the patriot act am a lot less certain that the US is all that much better, but on the face, it certainly seems to be.
The time for baby steps is long over. There was a new hope in Tienanment Square, then the Empire struck back. The question is whether or not there will be a return of the Jedi. (several years after those tech Jedi appeared to have aligned themselves with the dark side)
My point was using the gootube example to tilt at windmills criticizing global corruption and hypocrisy. I.e. not so much about the damage done in this specific incident, but the damage done by example it sets. The phrase "moral hazard" relates to the danger from society following the bad example in general, not from the damage in the specific case.
Somehow the banks got to eat their cake, and then have it too, and the world had to swallow that MH because allegedly we'd all be eating garbage now otherwise. Then, when it came to bailing out underwater home owners and the poor/homeless, that MH couldn't be accepted (or so we were told) because then people wouldn't want to work for a living, instead just looking to be bailed out.
It's not hard, if you're aiming to debate that side of the argument, to come up with ways that YT winning wasn't necessarily the best outcome here. Look for instance to the absence of a non-patent-encumbered codec making it into html5. It seems to me that monetary interests are succeeding quite well in sinking their commercial fangs into what is the most blatantly obvious use of the high speed internet. There is no innovation involved with seeing 20 years ago that the internet would end up as a many-to-many video delivery service. The fact that monetary interests keen on keeping their advertising channels tapped into the poor's bedrooms, have thwarted the ability of non-megacorps to do pure ad-free many-to-many video... sucks in my opinion.
I know I'm not being terribly coherent, but I think I'm getting my point across. The point being that even as technology advances to the point that everyone _should_ be able to have an ad-free cell-phone with unlimited simple global calling, for a ridiculously cheap price (say $20/yr), the telcos will use every "Evil" means at their disposal to prevent that from happening, and keep the price at $20/mo. Ditto for cable TV. Ditto for content that short of disney-lawyers would have been in the public domain by now, and whose commercial value is in absolutely no way contributing to the artistic community in the way that IP rights were originally meant to foster.
But again, this is all tilting at windmills... Google will continue operating under the attitude of utilizing an interpretation of fair-use, that is as laughable as Yoo's interpretation of the definition of 'torture'. No matter how sadly laughably wrong either of them may be, there is really no stopping them.
Your analysis that this did not seriously hurt the content providers, despite being "Evil", is I think, entirely accurate.
But what needs to be highlighted is the groups it DID hurt. It DID hurt any company, that for reasons of ethics, or not being able to afford as many lawyers as Google, chose to pursue business models that did not involve using "Evil" as a kind of bridge-loan to carry their company to success. My older brother is a VP at Google, and I am pretty disappointed with these attitudes from him, from Google, and more importantly, from the world's society and economy in general. I don't judge him harshly, because I absolutely do see that Google here is just playing the money game the way the money game is played. Sure, it is a moral hazard that Google used their facilitation of the oppression of human rights in China to leverage their position of corporate strength today. Sure it is a moral hazard that even if years later, they stop that "Evil", and stop the "Evil" of knowingly leveraging copyright infringers to gain momentum and market share.
Bottom line, it's a sad sad world, and everywhere you look, the good guys that play by the rules get crushed monetarily by the players who are willing to break the rules, even if years later after they have established themselves and are under more scrutiny, have to start playing by the rules. I view Google's malfeasance here as but a tiny fraction compared to what happened with the banks and the bailouts.
I'd say that it's going to get worse as the decades go by, but really, if you look at sexist and racist oppression, these moral hazards don't look all that scary. The world will muddle through. Fringe elements will commit terrorist acts. Probably ending up like the comical world of the movie Brazil. I.e. the occasional terrorist bomb will be as common as a traffic accident and ignored. With dental torturers getting the last laugh, and the tortured retreating to the safety of fantasies.
Blah...
Shameless plug-
If you are interested in recycling an NDS into a touchscreen whammypad that you can embed in or velcro to a real guitar, check out-
http://gzyx.org/
It comes with a fedora-11 derived LiveUSB appliance distribution that boots straight into the open source rakarrack f/x processor. Along with a server to listen via wifi to the NDS which runs a homebrew remote control application, to control changing f/x presets and mapping 2 parameters to the X and Y of the touchscreen.
100% open source, self hosting (modify and recompile any or every part without downloading anything)
My solution to this problem that I've been working on for years, but still has further to go is LiveDVD linux distribution, that includes all the source code to rebuild itself (the iso image) from scratch. Add to that, a cool interaction with some NDS homebrew, including all the source and compilers needed to modify that. Currently what I have is a fedora derived LiveDVD/USB that boots a PC into an electric guitar-f/x preamp, which when combined with speakers and a guitar, lets you easily start jamming with Rakarrack. For the NDS homebrew side, I have an application that lets the NDS talk via wifi to control Rakarrack in realtime. A TouchScreenWhammyPad implementation.
For the long term goal to achieve what you described, I intend to add more simple GPL homebrew games, and a book walking a kid through the process of tweaking some little aspects of the existing games, maybe just text strings. That would get them familiar with the development process. Then maybe a complete tutorial implementing tic-tac-toe or such (from good overcommented template code of course).
If you want to check out what I have so far-
http://gzyx.org/
(developer build of new f11 based version will upload today, and an f12 version should be coming pretty soon)
Anyone else (unemployed and looking like me) feel like a disturbing portion of the job market is constituted of 'blame taking positions'?
It's probably paranoia, but I feel like the businessworld is composed of corrupt people who will lie and bullshit, and then the poor saps that get stuck with the 'blame taking positions'.
In my youth, I had naive libertarian beliefs about talented and competent people winning out in the free market against those types. Now that I've witnessed the naked annihilation of even the illusion of capitalism, via the bank bailouts... I just have no real hope that there is any way to make a living without either being one of those bullshitters, or poor blame taking saps. I guess the honorable thing is to just accept a sequence of blame taking jobs, and survive and get fed until we see a better age.
You sound dangerously close to the kind of young people screwing up Linux distributions. But I do find the core of this idea to be brilliant. I've had similar thoughts in the past, but you've really nailed the heart of the issue. I would love to see a niche distro do this, to let the idea catch on (somehow finding yourself with the authority to make it a new default for a mainstream distro, would be criminal however).
I suppose one implementation would be a filesystem, that stores metadata of application state along with each file. Really, the userspace memory image of the application with the file open would be overkill sufficient. And OS smarts along the lines of VMWware/recent-linux memory de-duplication.
If you had browser uptimes that averaged weeks, and performed roughly a dozen google searches a day, you'd see it isn't as simple as that. (auto deleting cookies at end of session/exit)
Sure, I can vote with my feet. I certainly will for my habit of 'wikipedia' prefixed google searches that seemed to shave a few tenths of seconds over the overall latency, versus native wikipedia search. But the problem is that google is google because they are a damn good search engine. Having to change my use due to a new pro/con balance will hurt. I know several people that work there. I'd like to like google. But it's gotten harder over the years, and this feels like the tipping point to me.
Lightning fast (non personalized) high quality search results were why I got addicted to them in the first place nearly a decade ago. First usenet, now google. Next thing you know, slashdot will require you to set a cookie, to opt-out of cookies being used to by default serve you a selection of articles based on algorithms. Algorithms approved by their paying advertisers. Algorithms with knowledge of your browsing history. It's sad. It's not what I want.
The point of the original poster was not about google or your ISP nefariously spying on you. The poster is clearly that paranoid already. The point was about not wanting your search results skewed by previous searches, _by default_.
With browser uptimes of weeks and a dozen plus searches a day, that quickly adds up to very skewed results for each subsequent search. Auto-deleting of cookies on browser close, or 'allow cookie for session' is not enough.
I may be in the Global Warming alarmist camp, but I don't want my search results for scientific data skewed by google's knowledge of my prejudice gleamed from prior search terms.
Forcing users to set a cookie in order to opt-out of having search results skewed by cookie tracking, is absolutely rich.
While probably not a solution to the original problem, an answer to the specific question about native ext2 images instead of LiveCD iso images is this-
The Fedora and CentOS LiveCDs do contain a native ext3/4 filesystem image embedded within a squashfs image. The normal Fedora anaconda/liveinst installer works by copying this image directly to the target destination then using resize2fs to expand it to the destination's size.
My ZyX-LiveInstaller at http://filteredperception.org/ goes one further and does this process with the running copy-on-write version of the filesystem, allowing for a rebootless LiveOS installation.
But of course these LiveCD sized filesystems are on the order of 2G (compressed about 3:1 by squashfs). You can probably find a minimal spin that brings that down a bit, but not enough for your needs. A real answer of course is as others have said- get a distro of the same vintage. Linus himself commented on the bloat recently didn't he?
"Linux is a great product, and that is the result of the magnificent work of all the coders and contributers. But sometimes they just act like children."
When used in this sense, it is equally valid to say that everyone on the planet acts like children. Really, it is the control freaks that are good at repressing their inner child that worry me the most. They come off as professional, work their way into positions of real power an authority, and then you discover how much they can _really_ screw things up for the rest of us.
I for one am reassured by Obama's stupid 'stupid' comment. Sure, it was stupid of him, but it convinces me he isn't going to do anything WW3 level stupid because he can no longer repress every natural aspect of his human nature.
yeah, looking at the (current) wikipedia breakdown, I guess 'declarative' would have been the better choice. Though under declarative they only have 'functional' and 'goal-oriented' as members of that class, with the latter not yet having a wikipedia page yet. So I don't think 'functional' is too bad a choice. In fact, when I consider the classes of programmings from the best intuitive definitions of the words, I think 'functional' is better at conveying the meaning to people familiar with traditional imperative programming (who have used 'functions' before), than 'declarative'.
No need to bring hardware design into this. I believe the term is 'functional programming'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
Yeah, that was all pretty much stuff I've read before. You mention 'fraught' which was I wanted it boiled down to- what product is available _today_ that can use this feature. Likewise, I do have an rt2500usb adapter, and didn't see any joy with it when trying 'iwconfig device mode master'. So any information on whether or not the output of that command would change based on the kernel would be helpful.
Or just shoot down my theory that that is a valid test. I believe I started doing that after reading the links you mentioned, and believing that if I saw success, then, and only then would it be worth spending time getting the tools and perhaps patching the kernel.
Also, maybe some essential info about why or whether support is in fact limited to chipsets. I.e. is it really physically impossible to 'fake' a real AP when you have the ability to read and write raw 802.11 packets? What actual hardware are these(?) chipsets giving us that makes something possible that wouldn't be without the hardware.
Basically my real issue is NDS homebrew, whose toolchain currently only supports AP mode, and not ad-hoc. There are libraries(liblobby) which sound like they crudely achieve the quasi-ad-hoc mode that nintendo uses for its games, but I don't want to invest the time with those, or writing my own crude-hack, until I have a better understanding of what truly are the hardware issues involved, especially because my interest is in the nds as a universal cloud device that could control any PC in any arbitrary way. Right now I just dedicate an AP to the task, but I would love it if I didn't have to (and from my vague knowledge, I'm sure what I want is possible, and was hoping this was a good quick first pass)
Someone- please tell me what usb wifi adapter product can be used to make this happen? I have searched and found some related docs that mention support being limited to a couple chipsets. Which always confused my too-much-but-too-little networking knowledge. The git commit message here mentions nothing about hardware support limits. My prior test, perhaps invalid, was to take a fedora-9 box, buy several usb adapters, and type "iwconfig bla mode master" hoping for success, but never seeing success. I always thought this was because the prism2 or whatever supported chipsets were rare, but now maybe I'm thinking the code wasn't in the kernel yet??? Please someone, give me a link to a newegg or amazon usb product, and the essence of the quick howto.
"
A humble proposal: We need another layer, between the block layer and the filesystem layer -- call it an extent layer
"
Hmm... I guess it's below the block layer, but... devicemapper/lvm?
"
But this would be enough information to effectively handle mirroring, striping, snapshotting, copy-on-write, etc.
"
Yeah, dm does all that... (but I'm guessing not quite as much as you were looking for)
If that is correct, then my skepticism was correct as well. From your link-
"
[This is the text of the 1987 United States Supreme Court decision striking down a Louisiana law that required if evolution is taught in public schools then creationism must also be taught.
"
Which is entirely different than what the top post said-
"
remember that the Supreme Court has declared teaching creationism an unconstitutional imposition of religion.
"
I understand that many of my fellow democrats suffer from *severe* dogmatism on this issue, but if you can just look at those two quotes and realize that the former has zilch to do with any particular teacher deciding to teach creationism in any random classroom on any random day of the schoolyear. Which is precisely what the latter quote suggested that SCOTUS outlawed.
"
remember that the Supreme Court has declared teaching creationism an unconstitutional imposition of religion
"
Can someone post a reference. I suspect any actual rulings will be somewhat more nuanced than that broad statement.
It seems to me that this article is simultaneously drawing attention to an issue, while fueling the flames of the issue. I.e. "There is this huge problem of employees doing bad things because they are untrusted".
Yeah, OK. Thanks again slashdot editors. Like accountants whose job gives them the ability to hide wreckless risk-taking to beef up their current performance at the expense of the collapse that will happen after they have taken their bonuses and left the company, aren't a bigger threat to the businesses of the world.
if you fast forward to the end of the tutorial videos, IMO you see sufficient video of 'it working'. I haven't yet downloaded it and tried the examples, but honestly even if the 3 tutorial examples were all there is, I'd still be impressed.
I was just thinking about interactive audio visualizations for a kick ass guitar appliance. I ran across fluxus which I'd never heard of before, but looks to be a killer app. Check out the movies here.
http://www.pawfal.org/index.php?page=FluxusSecrets
http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/
yes, mod parent up
Playing mp3s/oggs, datebook, email, voip, without being chained to proprietary software and service. This is a threat to nintendo that the r4 combined with homebrew and OSS enable. Or home automation (think touchpad lighting controls and voip intercom panels located throughout the house that can display video from wifi security cameras).
This may well be about piracy. But even if piracy were impossible with this device, I wouldn't put it past Nintendo to crack down because they want the control to deliver software that does the above at their leisure, and not have to compete with the fact that it is really pretty easy to simply compile OSS that does the above on this device. And yes, I have written my own homebrew, and really enjoyed the OSless bare-metalness of it (so please don't bother with the - 'your an idiot, it's not just a recompile' comment. People have worked hard to port OSS and write new OSS. And seeing that swept under the rug, even if the driving issue is piracy, is a very sad thing.
If this comment is accurate, please mod it up. It adds needed clarification to the understanding of the issue one gets reading the comments. I.e. this makes it sound like there is a scenario where you lose your named.conf, as opposed to the story and the comments above that all make it sound like the only negative is that your conf gets moved to .rpmsave. (yes, I understand the whole caching-nameserver aspect. I however don't think it's counterintuitive for an inexperienced admin to think that they could have that package installed, and still run their own domains. Now, back in the day or distro when the package was named caching-*only*-nameserver... maybe... But even still, I think RH should support the scenario where someone installs caching-nameserver, then reads docs, then extends their config files so that their system is providing a caching-nameserver AND authoritative or secondary for things, and then when they update to errata, their config should not get blown away. $0.02...)