When asked directly whether he had ever been asked to help Russian intelligence agencies spy on the US, Kaspersky vehemently denied any such conversations had ever happened saying: "They have never asked us to spy on people. Never."
What he did not say, was, "All they asked us to do was to spy on computers. Computers are not people. Corporations are people, my friend".
I have come across many dumb dogs that bark constantly for no reason,
Probably those dogs are thinking, "This MoarSauce123 is a particularly dumb Homo sapien. No matter how much I tell him he does not understand. I have been speaking to him repeatedly, loudly, persistently, without any signs of impatience, and still that guy does not get it."
It is horribly loaded with crap ware. Disk bus was at 100% thrashing the hard disk
It is a 12 GB machine, the pagefile was 2GB. I have a 1TB hard disk. In unix/linux side my swap disk has always been twice the RAM. OK raise it, still it was too slow, disk activity 100%.
OK find and disable one drive. Mild help, still over 90%
Find and disable superfetch. Ding ding ding! Pay dirt. Disk started idling.
These are not some crap ware loaded by the Vendor. IT is microsoft pushing useless things that leads to such bad user experience.
No body is forcing you to buy an electric car. Go ahead and buy whatever is suitable for you, whatever you like.
Just give the same respect to other people. There will be people who might find electric cars adequate.
At this point it is not the range, it is the price. The additional price of electric car does not justify the savings in fuel costs. So most people are not finding it compelling to try the new technology.
When the breakthrough comes and when there is cost savings, people will switch.
When electric cars reach 50% market share, let us see how many people who value range are willing to pay more for the range.
Wow! That is how you get your account Deleted!
Very nice to know. My understanding was that Facebook never deletes the account. No matter how hard you try.
Just 15 years ago we were wringing our hands about Win-Tel stranglehold and how it was impossible for innovation to happen. How Microsoft making a vague announcement about some vaporware made venture capital disappear for fledgling companies. How it bundled and coerced PC makers to shut Netscape out and drove it to bankruptcy. How WordPerfect's painstakingly assembled drivers for every damned obscure printer in the world was taken away in one fell swoop by making every printer conform to Microsoft driver spec.
Then...
Today we laugh at Microsoft. From the days of calling Linux cancer, it is adding Linux subsystem for Windows and porting MSOffice for free for Chromebooks below 10 inch screens.
The big players Amazon Prime, Netflix, Pandora, Spotify and such streaming media companies think killing net neutrality will benefit them. They think they have the money and the clout to pay for their streams to be prioritized, exempted from data caps etc, and it will put a serious barrier to entry to new competitors. That is the reason they are only half hearted in supporting net neutrality.
Once the dust settles, and the ISPs have the keys to the kingdom, then they will see what bad bargain they have wrought.
ISPs have a steady stream of revenue, and they will build cash, buy a failing competitor and prop it and eventually wear down the existing big streaming companies. Internet will degenerate into cable tv like bundled services.
When Britain, and rest of Europe, were creating limited liability companies, it was opposed because no one would go to jail if the company defaults. Those were the days of debtor's prison.
Who goes to jail for a company's criminal actions has always been a vexing questions.
We have jailed GE executives for breaking monopoly and anti-trust laws back in 1910s. But sadly we have gone for too long without sending these executives to jail. Just a few in jail would bring back balance to the Force.
I understand you don't need it, most casual users wont need it.
I have two full hd monitors. In win10, I maintain six work spaces. One running full screen remote desk top on a windows server. Two more running full screen sessions on two linux servers. Then one work space for development, code editing, running consoles. One more to run the regression suites and the validation scripts. Then the main one for browsing and internet and email and presentations
The desktop is 128 GB, 32 core machine. Two of the servers are 256GB 32 core machines. The last linux server is 1TB memory 40 physical, not logical, processors. Every pull request I approve takes about 600 processor hours of certification testing.
By the way, each of the full screen sessions on linux servers run the four work spaces, each work space is 3940 x 1080 pixel. I use the equivalent of 24 screens each 1920 x 1080.
Very few people use as much screen as I use. Very few people are willing to pay as much as I am willing to pay. I will pay top dollar and defray your development costs. Then you can sell the technology to every one else for pure profit.
95% of the features of MS Office is not used by 95% of the people. That did not stop them from adding yet another gazillion word art. Windows work spaces and singleton windows make it very difficult it use it. So many windows apps will launch a new window in the original workspace, not in the current one. There are tons of problems.
Microsoft could not do it. The problem comes from the root windown concept in its even manager and all the mouse and keyboard events need to flow down from the root window. It never envisaged a windowless root into which window managers can plug in and despatch events.
Keeping a particular task's windows together is part of multiple virtual desktops, which GNU/Linux has had for well over a decade and Windows recently gained.
Comparing Linux/Unix X windows work spaces with Win10 workspaces is patently unfair. Win10 workspace has absolutely no customization, no discernable different between work spaces. Does not have "sticky" windows. Can not relocate a window from one work space to another.
Back in 1994 when I got my first HP-UX, I set it up with SIX work spaces, each with its own wall paper, its own name. The sticky dock at the bottom would let me switch to any desktop directly without cycling through all desktops.
I am currently using some ancient window manager xfwm that has more ability and customization and fast response than win10.
Win10 workspaces is the perfect example of too little too late.
When a company settles for Microsoft compatibility, it gets one great advantage. A large workforce already well trained in the user interface and will be productive immediately and hit the ground running. A consistent, predictable, reliable user interface that is long lasting, enduring, backward compatible release after release. Your work force gets increasingly productive without any retraining costs to the company.
Oh! sorry copy pasted from the older report from Microsoft's paid shill Gartner. Please wait while I rummage through the ribbon interface on uncustomizable workspaces to find the latest report it asked Gartner to write.
OK. This is how the law makers are going to think.
If it is that important to these players, and if they are handling that much of commerce, why the hell they did not spend enough in lobbying (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) to "educate" me using the proper channels (i.e K street firms staffed by ex senators and reps). The way I see it now, all these firms are making this load of money and they are not paying proper tribute, no no not tribute, campaign contributions, to us. Under what premise these companies expect any help from us? What part of pay to play they don't understand?
It will help you if you understand the terms Freedom Liberty etc are meant only for Corporations. Corporations are people, remember? If Corporations are people, then people are what? Think about it...
You made a rather ignorant statement, FORTRAN development is still done in the realm of high performance computing, for some of the most interesting and complex problems mankind is tackling. that's why the FORTRAN 2018 standard is in the works.....
We do have a high performance development group and we do solve some of the most interesting and complex problems mankind is solving, our products wont build without the Intel Fortran compiler. Still the number of Fortran developers I have and the number of Fortran positions I call for is vastly out numbered by C++ developers. C can shrink like that. Not C++ that is my point.
C++ compilers will unlink from C, deprecate C bindings, compile to a target for Go based link/loading. Some libraries could not be ported with the same level of performance. They will become living fossils like Fortran. A small team maintaining and building it. Some small improvements.
Theoretical computer scientists will be appalled by the idea of this creaking huge superstructure being boot straped on to their elegant Go foundations. But the cost of rewriting C++ is so high, the benefit so small, it will not be done.
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When asked directly whether he had ever been asked to help Russian intelligence agencies spy on the US, Kaspersky vehemently denied any such conversations had ever happened saying: "They have never asked us to spy on people. Never."
What he did not say, was, "All they asked us to do was to spy on computers. Computers are not people. Corporations are people, my friend".
As long as Uber gets the customer and gets what it wants to be paid, where is the scam?
I have come across many dumb dogs that bark constantly for no reason,
Probably those dogs are thinking, "This MoarSauce123 is a particularly dumb Homo sapien. No matter how much I tell him he does not understand. I have been speaking to him repeatedly, loudly, persistently, without any signs of impatience, and still that guy does not get it."
It is a 12 GB machine, the pagefile was 2GB. I have a 1TB hard disk. In unix/linux side my swap disk has always been twice the RAM. OK raise it, still it was too slow, disk activity 100%.
OK find and disable one drive. Mild help, still over 90%
Find and disable superfetch. Ding ding ding! Pay dirt. Disk started idling.
These are not some crap ware loaded by the Vendor. IT is microsoft pushing useless things that leads to such bad user experience.
Been driving a Model S since 2015, racked up 100km in about 2.5 yrs.
What! 100 kilometer? just 60 miles or so in 2.5 years? No wonder it did not need any service!
Cant call uber? Cant call a taxi? For those extremely hypothetical contingency?
Just give the same respect to other people. There will be people who might find electric cars adequate.
At this point it is not the range, it is the price. The additional price of electric car does not justify the savings in fuel costs. So most people are not finding it compelling to try the new technology.
When the breakthrough comes and when there is cost savings, people will switch.
When electric cars reach 50% market share, let us see how many people who value range are willing to pay more for the range.
Wow! That is how you get your account Deleted! Very nice to know. My understanding was that Facebook never deletes the account. No matter how hard you try.
Then ...
Today we laugh at Microsoft. From the days of calling Linux cancer, it is adding Linux subsystem for Windows and porting MSOffice for free for Chromebooks below 10 inch screens.
So let us be more cautious.
Once the dust settles, and the ISPs have the keys to the kingdom, then they will see what bad bargain they have wrought.
ISPs have a steady stream of revenue, and they will build cash, buy a failing competitor and prop it and eventually wear down the existing big streaming companies. Internet will degenerate into cable tv like bundled services.
When Britain, and rest of Europe, were creating limited liability companies, it was opposed because no one would go to jail if the company defaults. Those were the days of debtor's prison.
Who goes to jail for a company's criminal actions has always been a vexing questions.
We have jailed GE executives for breaking monopoly and anti-trust laws back in 1910s. But sadly we have gone for too long without sending these executives to jail. Just a few in jail would bring back balance to the Force.
Seriously, any one who knows a bit about unix will enable the root account and set a fairly strong password.
It is only the "Its Apple! Its immune to hacks!! Its got the ultimate security!!!" fanbois will be affected.
I have two full hd monitors. In win10, I maintain six work spaces. One running full screen remote desk top on a windows server. Two more running full screen sessions on two linux servers. Then one work space for development, code editing, running consoles. One more to run the regression suites and the validation scripts. Then the main one for browsing and internet and email and presentations
The desktop is 128 GB, 32 core machine. Two of the servers are 256GB 32 core machines. The last linux server is 1TB memory 40 physical, not logical, processors. Every pull request I approve takes about 600 processor hours of certification testing.
By the way, each of the full screen sessions on linux servers run the four work spaces, each work space is 3940 x 1080 pixel. I use the equivalent of 24 screens each 1920 x 1080.
Very few people use as much screen as I use. Very few people are willing to pay as much as I am willing to pay. I will pay top dollar and defray your development costs. Then you can sell the technology to every one else for pure profit.
Microsoft could not do it. The problem comes from the root windown concept in its even manager and all the mouse and keyboard events need to flow down from the root window. It never envisaged a windowless root into which window managers can plug in and despatch events.
Keeping a particular task's windows together is part of multiple virtual desktops, which GNU/Linux has had for well over a decade and Windows recently gained.
Comparing Linux/Unix X windows work spaces with Win10 workspaces is patently unfair. Win10 workspace has absolutely no customization, no discernable different between work spaces. Does not have "sticky" windows. Can not relocate a window from one work space to another.
Back in 1994 when I got my first HP-UX, I set it up with SIX work spaces, each with its own wall paper, its own name. The sticky dock at the bottom would let me switch to any desktop directly without cycling through all desktops.
I am currently using some ancient window manager xfwm that has more ability and customization and fast response than win10.
Win10 workspaces is the perfect example of too little too late.
Oh! sorry copy pasted from the older report from Microsoft's paid shill Gartner. Please wait while I rummage through the ribbon interface on uncustomizable workspaces to find the latest report it asked Gartner to write.
Otherwise I could not imagine why she would be quiet and remain anonymous at this point of peak fame.
What it chooses to enforce is so haphazard.
And it enforces it using a highly corrupt insanely inefficient bureaucracy
Still it manages to be a sort of functioning democracy. No doubt it is very bad. But given the circumstances, it is way better than one would expect.
On second thoughts, scratch that. I don't need no MS-Office polluting my pristine chromebook.
Then they laughed at it,
Then they fought it.
Then it won.
They seem to have anticipated and corrected for all the routine criticism. Seems like it is going to be approved for publication.
If it is that important to these players, and if they are handling that much of commerce, why the hell they did not spend enough in lobbying (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) to "educate" me using the proper channels (i.e K street firms staffed by ex senators and reps). The way I see it now, all these firms are making this load of money and they are not paying proper tribute, no no not tribute, campaign contributions, to us. Under what premise these companies expect any help from us? What part of pay to play they don't understand?
The whole world knows You! Yes!! Yay!!! has the best justice money can buy. OK?
It will help you if you understand the terms Freedom Liberty etc are meant only for Corporations. Corporations are people, remember? If Corporations are people, then people are what? Think about it...
You made a rather ignorant statement, FORTRAN development is still done in the realm of high performance computing, for some of the most interesting and complex problems mankind is tackling. that's why the FORTRAN 2018 standard is in the works.....
We do have a high performance development group and we do solve some of the most interesting and complex problems mankind is solving, our products wont build without the Intel Fortran compiler. Still the number of Fortran developers I have and the number of Fortran positions I call for is vastly out numbered by C++ developers. C can shrink like that. Not C++ that is my point.
C++ compilers will unlink from C, deprecate C bindings, compile to a target for Go based link/loading. Some libraries could not be ported with the same level of performance. They will become living fossils like Fortran. A small team maintaining and building it. Some small improvements.
Theoretical computer scientists will be appalled by the idea of this creaking huge superstructure being boot straped on to their elegant Go foundations. But the cost of rewriting C++ is so high, the benefit so small, it will not be done.