It's no more unreasonable than asking "I want to send a stream of bytes to another computer on the internet, how would I do that?" and expecting an answer describing TCP sockets.
Because both are pretty unreasonable. Why would you expect someone to answer such a vague question by describing TCP instead of describing Ethernet, IP, UDP, FTP, HTTP, scp, etc.?
Doesn't that sound a whole lot like a list of addresses the police would love to have?
Why, are you worried that the police will come arrest you in the middle of the night just because you don't want amateur pilots sending drones over your house?
Explain to us why we should not expect these guys or their business partners to profit off our personal information.
Of course I haven't read the article or looked at their web site, but what private information are they collecting? Assuming you have to own the land to be able to establish a no-fly zone, your name and address are already publicly-available information.
Almost no games get below 40, while any game that doesn't get 80 or more is considerd a failure.
It depends on the scale that the rating uses. In most schools, anything below 60 or 70 is considered a failure; you did more than nothing (which would be a 0), but you didn't get enough correct to even be considered adequate. In game reviews, you could consider 50 to be the starting score that a game gets just for making it to the title screen. A score of 80 might be the minimum needed for a game to be considered successful (i.e. the equivalent of a C in school).
Sounds like a problem specifically with OpenSuSE then. The only times I can remember not having log files in/var/log were when there wasn't any disk space available.
On the other hand, when you update to a new hard drive the system breaks as the UUIDs have changed even though / is still on/dev/sda3 or wherever.
Personally, while Linux was fun to learn, I've gotten tired of relearning it regularly.
There's a very good reason for that. You don't want the decision of which partition to mount at / to be based on which disk device responded to probes from the kernel the fastest. As for relearning, the place to change the UUID for the partition that you want mounted at / is/etc/fstab, where it's been for as long as I can remember.
3: SystemD is one large code blob with zero internal separation... and it listens on the network with root permissions. It does not even drop perms which virtually every other utility does. Combine this with the fact that this has seen no testing... and this puts every production system on the Internet at risk of a remote root hole. It will be -decades- before SystemD becomes a solid program. Even programs like sendmail went through many bug fixes where security was a big problem... and sendmail has multiple daemons to separate privs, unlike SystemD.
Because of course it's been years since anyone found any security holes in well-tested software like Bash or OpenSSL.
There's a facility already present in the system for doing what they're doing, and they simply ignore it, with consequences for users. And what's more, the facility works really well for what they're doing with it, which they're doing very poorly.
If a software package used an existing, high-quality facility for doing a particular task, someone somewhere would complain about the dependency.
I read a piece this morning that suggested Jon Stewart and Brian Williams switch jobs. Oddly enough, Brian Williams could actually do reasonably well anchoring The Daily Show. He's a better comedian than what people typically see from him.
One big advantage to the monthly subscription for Office is that it's a lot cheaper than purchasing the full version if you only need to use it occasionally. Situations where this is the case for Windows are probably less common, but some companies with varying numbers of Windows systems running at any one time could benefit from a subscription model.
This is not new for Verizon at all - they have been shedding their landline and FiOS business for years. Back in 2007 they abandoned Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, selling off the business to FairPoint Communications, a tiny North Carolina company that struggled for years to overcome billing system issues.
For people that think that no provider could be worse than Verizon, take a look at customers' opinions of FairPoint.
What if this prediction is the result of too many people making a life out of academia, such that they now have to come up with ever-wackier notions? It's as though current theories leave all these wholes, and people get PhD's coming up with nonsense to fill them. It seems like the control against which their observations are measured is their own assumption about what they should not expect to see.
You mean wacky notions like the speed of light being the same regardless of how the light source is moving?
Welcome to the world of government mandated emission standards. It takes so much electronics and computer control to make a tractor's diesel engine run as clean as the government demands that it's unfixable by the layman, and if they open it up to adjustment by the layman, guess who will be found at fault? The manufacturer.
Fine, let them use equipment that's cheaper to fix, as long as they also pay all of the cleanup costs associated with the extra pollution.
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It's no more unreasonable than asking "I want to send a stream of bytes to another computer on the internet, how would I do that?" and expecting an answer describing TCP sockets.
Because both are pretty unreasonable. Why would you expect someone to answer such a vague question by describing TCP instead of describing Ethernet, IP, UDP, FTP, HTTP, scp, etc.?
Or perhaps it's funded by the NSA. "Let's get a list of addresses where people want to hide from surveillance."
You mean a list of people stupid enough to think that the federal government would be bound by this list?
Doesn't that sound a whole lot like a list of addresses the police would love to have?
Why, are you worried that the police will come arrest you in the middle of the night just because you don't want amateur pilots sending drones over your house?
Explain to us why we should not expect these guys or their business partners to profit off our personal information.
Of course I haven't read the article or looked at their web site, but what private information are they collecting? Assuming you have to own the land to be able to establish a no-fly zone, your name and address are already publicly-available information.
My shit might be stone age
Damn, what the hell have you been eating?
It's not like any of us schmucks will buy a rocket.
I won PowerBall last night, you insensitive clod!
Now if you make it look like a Corvette and can use the wipes to get reentry residue off the windshield my Heavy Metal wet dream will be complete!
Is the commanding officer of the mission Major Boobage?
Almost no games get below 40, while any game that doesn't get 80 or more is considerd a failure.
It depends on the scale that the rating uses. In most schools, anything below 60 or 70 is considered a failure; you did more than nothing (which would be a 0), but you didn't get enough correct to even be considered adequate. In game reviews, you could consider 50 to be the starting score that a game gets just for making it to the title screen. A score of 80 might be the minimum needed for a game to be considered successful (i.e. the equivalent of a C in school).
Isn't that nuclear fission? That must be one hell of an enzyme. I hope the terrorists don't get their hands on it!
The idea that there were electrons in the nucleus of an atom went out of fashion when the neutron was discovered.
Sounds like a problem specifically with OpenSuSE then. The only times I can remember not having log files in /var/log were when there wasn't any disk space available.
For some people, "just works" is something that only belongs in operating systems from Microsoft and Apple.
On the other hand, when you update to a new hard drive the system breaks as the UUIDs have changed even though / is still on /dev/sda3 or wherever.
Personally, while Linux was fun to learn, I've gotten tired of relearning it regularly.
There's a very good reason for that. You don't want the decision of which partition to mount at / to be based on which disk device responded to probes from the kernel the fastest. As for relearning, the place to change the UUID for the partition that you want mounted at / is /etc/fstab, where it's been for as long as I can remember.
3: SystemD is one large code blob with zero internal separation... and it listens on the network with root permissions. It does not even drop perms which virtually every other utility does. Combine this with the fact that this has seen no testing... and this puts every production system on the Internet at risk of a remote root hole. It will be -decades- before SystemD becomes a solid program. Even programs like sendmail went through many bug fixes where security was a big problem... and sendmail has multiple daemons to separate privs, unlike SystemD.
Because of course it's been years since anyone found any security holes in well-tested software like Bash or OpenSSL.
There's a facility already present in the system for doing what they're doing, and they simply ignore it, with consequences for users. And what's more, the facility works really well for what they're doing with it, which they're doing very poorly.
If a software package used an existing, high-quality facility for doing a particular task, someone somewhere would complain about the dependency.
I've written them in twice now. When your state is so heavily in favor of a single party, it's not like your vote matters.
I hear Brian Williams is available...
I read a piece this morning that suggested Jon Stewart and Brian Williams switch jobs. Oddly enough, Brian Williams could actually do reasonably well anchoring The Daily Show. He's a better comedian than what people typically see from him.
One big advantage to the monthly subscription for Office is that it's a lot cheaper than purchasing the full version if you only need to use it occasionally. Situations where this is the case for Windows are probably less common, but some companies with varying numbers of Windows systems running at any one time could benefit from a subscription model.
I also find it difficult take seriously a CEO that refers to their primary source of revenue as the "other dude".
This is not new for Verizon at all - they have been shedding their landline and FiOS business for years. Back in 2007 they abandoned Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, selling off the business to FairPoint Communications, a tiny North Carolina company that struggled for years to overcome billing system issues.
For people that think that no provider could be worse than Verizon, take a look at customers' opinions of FairPoint.
Why should they expect certainty? Certainties in economics don't exist except when you're a monopolist getting rents.
I can't tell whether or not you intentionally answered your own question.
What if this prediction is the result of too many people making a life out of academia, such that they now have to come up with ever-wackier notions? It's as though current theories leave all these wholes, and people get PhD's coming up with nonsense to fill them. It seems like the control against which their observations are measured is their own assumption about what they should not expect to see.
You mean wacky notions like the speed of light being the same regardless of how the light source is moving?
That was the first thing I thought of, too. The real question, then, is which side are we?
I work on mobile at Facebook.
Sorry, we're talking about real programmers here.
Sounds pretty accurate. The engineer does all of the work, and the manager gets all of the credit.
Welcome to the world of government mandated emission standards. It takes so much electronics and computer control to make a tractor's diesel engine run as clean as the government demands that it's unfixable by the layman, and if they open it up to adjustment by the layman, guess who will be found at fault? The manufacturer.
Fine, let them use equipment that's cheaper to fix, as long as they also pay all of the cleanup costs associated with the extra pollution.