Duh? You know, maybe the MariaDB people should actually investigate things before making massive conclusion jumps?
Let's give oracle the benefit of the doubt: even if this was inserted by the NSA, MariaDB gave the proper response. If a car manufacturer accidentally released a car with a warranty that required people use fuel brand $X, people should rightly make hay about it.
Why is it possible for an automated process to insert the wrong license? Because the change is being planned or at least prepared for. This could have been a trial balloon.
Imagine a group of people (lets say 30, although it could be in the hundreds) who are all required to buy an expensive ebook for a college course. Even if just a study group of ten people got together from a large lecture, they could find vast savings by buying three ebooks and making a "pristine" copy then sharing that within the group. If there is a "toss of the coin" phrase (X&Y vs Y&X), then they could remove or completely rewrite those sections. If they're collectively saving thousands of dollars, it seems worth the effort, legality aside.
Communist barbarism, Capitalism barbarism... both the Soviets and America have demonstrated that eventually you get fucked by either system of government
Capitalism is not a system of government. It is an economic strategy. Autocratic and democratic governments alike can make use of capitalism.
And I just thought of a complication: RHEL is known for backporting security fixes to older versions, but soon those security fixes may not be compatible license-wise. So versions of RHEL that are still in use (5,6) will need to switch to MariaDB for security reasons, which will be hairy for support.
Not RHEL/CentOS, although RHEL7 will be based on Fedora19, which will use MariaDB instead of MySQL. Basing RHEL7 on Fedora19 is strange in itself; RedHat used to base RHEL on older versions of Fedora; I guess they feel the commercial world is ready for bleeding edge.
No, he slingshots himself around the Earth, breaking the light barrier, traveling back in time, and as a result, the world "spins backward" from the audience's perspective. It's amazing how many nerds get the cause and effect wrong there.
Point 2 is dependent on 1. If the president has constitutional authority, then no law congress enacts can/should prevent the president from exercising his authority. Congress and the States can vote to amend the constitution such that the authority is checked, but that's the limit. Of course this assumes point 1 is true, which it probably is not.
For around 3 years I posted regularly that this was coming, I warned everyone I could about this. I explained why it was important. I was called tinfoil hat, I was humiliated, I was belittled and I was told I was a moron.
You were called those names because it's such a bad scenario it's like saying "The President sacrifices babies which survived abortion procedures on an altar under his desk in the Oval Office". You need proof before people will believe something this bad. Now we're getting proof, but unfortunately, you've inoculated some people such that they now need more proof than they originally would have because they still emotionally equate "belief in government tracking of all phone data" with tinfoil-hatism, even if they no longer rationally equate the two.
That's not the problem. Just tell people what you're doing. Make sure that it's legal and ethical. Don't be shy of what you're doing. Then we might accept it.
No. Some people will never accept it because a massive database is being made which can easily be used for other purposes like identifying Joe Schmoes who are likely politically against the administration du jour and using that info to harass them with IRS et al. The existence of a database like this is uneccessary as the Feds can subpoena duces tecum for the specific data needed for investigations already. The only purpose for a universal database like this is for trend-tracking or other misuse. If its only purpose is misuse, then it should not exist.
In context, it seems clear that he was advocating honorably conducted rebellions founded on ignorance (not wickedness) every 20 years or less. Can you explain how else to parse the wording other than the obvious interpretation? Sarcasm?
Suddenly scientists will have very few job prospects, everyone can be a scientist.
No, the pay rate for more cerebral jobs would plummet, but very few people would want the boring repetitive job that is real science, so there will be plenty of openings. Janitorial jobs will take a hit too.
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Think of a sysadmin as a airplane pilot and stewardess as a helpdesk.
Does that mean we can (should) keep our doors closed and locked at all times during work hours?
Because I'm just mean.
Sure, except this was another example of citizens volunteering information about obvious terrorists. PRISM wasn't involved.
They weren't Islamic terrorists. Think People's Front of Judea.
Duh? You know, maybe the MariaDB people should actually investigate things before making massive conclusion jumps?
Let's give oracle the benefit of the doubt: even if this was inserted by the NSA, MariaDB gave the proper response. If a car manufacturer accidentally released a car with a warranty that required people use fuel brand $X, people should rightly make hay about it.
Why is it possible for an automated process to insert the wrong license? Because the change is being planned or at least prepared for. This could have been a trial balloon.
The embassy is probably all-smoking all the time.
Imagine a group of people (lets say 30, although it could be in the hundreds) who are all required to buy an expensive ebook for a college course. Even if just a study group of ten people got together from a large lecture, they could find vast savings by buying three ebooks and making a "pristine" copy then sharing that within the group. If there is a "toss of the coin" phrase (X&Y vs Y&X), then they could remove or completely rewrite those sections. If they're collectively saving thousands of dollars, it seems worth the effort, legality aside.
Communist barbarism, Capitalism barbarism ... both the Soviets and America have demonstrated that eventually you get fucked by either system of government
Capitalism is not a system of government. It is an economic strategy. Autocratic and democratic governments alike can make use of capitalism.
And I just thought of a complication: RHEL is known for backporting security fixes to older versions, but soon those security fixes may not be compatible license-wise. So versions of RHEL that are still in use (5,6) will need to switch to MariaDB for security reasons, which will be hairy for support.
Well, the default in RHEL7 is going to be Gnome 3 Classic, not MATE.
Not RHEL/CentOS, although RHEL7 will be based on Fedora19, which will use MariaDB instead of MySQL. Basing RHEL7 on Fedora19 is strange in itself; RedHat used to base RHEL on older versions of Fedora; I guess they feel the commercial world is ready for bleeding edge.
the world spins backwards, reversing time
No, he slingshots himself around the Earth, breaking the light barrier, traveling back in time, and as a result, the world "spins backward" from the audience's perspective. It's amazing how many nerds get the cause and effect wrong there.
Technically, they don't take rights away either. They either recognize or fail to recognize inalienable rights.
Let me sum up all such released FOIA documents for you: "[REDACTED]"
Point 2 is dependent on 1. If the president has constitutional authority, then no law congress enacts can/should prevent the president from exercising his authority. Congress and the States can vote to amend the constitution such that the authority is checked, but that's the limit. Of course this assumes point 1 is true, which it probably is not.
For around 3 years I posted regularly that this was coming, I warned everyone I could about this. I explained why it was important. I was called tinfoil hat, I was humiliated, I was belittled and I was told I was a moron.
You were called those names because it's such a bad scenario it's like saying "The President sacrifices babies which survived abortion procedures on an altar under his desk in the Oval Office". You need proof before people will believe something this bad. Now we're getting proof, but unfortunately, you've inoculated some people such that they now need more proof than they originally would have because they still emotionally equate "belief in government tracking of all phone data" with tinfoil-hatism, even if they no longer rationally equate the two.
When you hear a politician say "just" in his formal speech, he's lying. Mostly... as in, they mostly just lie through their teeth.
Oh, no, no, no. They lie out their asses too.
That's not the problem. Just tell people what you're doing. Make sure that it's legal and ethical. Don't be shy of what you're doing. Then we might accept it.
No. Some people will never accept it because a massive database is being made which can easily be used for other purposes like identifying Joe Schmoes who are likely politically against the administration du jour and using that info to harass them with IRS et al. The existence of a database like this is uneccessary as the Feds can subpoena duces tecum for the specific data needed for investigations already. The only purpose for a universal database like this is for trend-tracking or other misuse. If its only purpose is misuse, then it should not exist.
In context, it seems clear that he was advocating honorably conducted rebellions founded on ignorance (not wickedness) every 20 years or less. Can you explain how else to parse the wording other than the obvious interpretation? Sarcasm?
Please rewatch Life of Brian.
All it requires is one telekinetic E.T. You can fly a fleet of bikes with just one.
Suddenly scientists will have very few job prospects, everyone can be a scientist.
No, the pay rate for more cerebral jobs would plummet, but very few people would want the boring repetitive job that is real science, so there will be plenty of openings. Janitorial jobs will take a hit too.
This isn't an "other actor". It's arnie's image on arnie.
"How long is a peace of string"
I have never known string to break a cease-fire.