I find it interesting that all the posts that point out the simple fact that Islam is a dangerous, disgusting religion are modded negative. Are the Islamist astroturfers bringing out the votes? How democratic!
Does this mean that Rogers/Bell can start pushing agents/SW on their subscribers computers which in turn allow them to control your access?
It may read that way, but I don't think that's the intent. I think it's meant to allow Bell and Rogers to remotely update the firmware on their modems and routers. My mother uses Bell, but she runs Linux so Bell would have a fairly difficult time installing anything on her computer anyway. (To monitor her, they wouldn't need to... they could just install something on the router they provided.)
His whole perception of "good and evil" with regards to software IP (Oops! He doesn't use that term!) is black and white thinking and doesn't lend itself to progress.
Well, OK. "Evil" is a strong term, but I can certainly agree with RMS's stance reworded as "Good and Bad".
The United States doesn't yet demand my fingerprints because---lucky me---I'm Canadian.
But it does demand fingerprints of most visitors. Someone needs to file a Freedom of Information request to find out how many crimes or attacks this policy has prevented per dollar of implementation cost. Then compare that to the US deficit and use some common sense.
Well, yeah, you can write obfuscated Perl (although what you wrote isn't even Perl... it's just a bunch of syntax errors.)
You can also write obfuscated C. And you can also write maintainable large systems in Perl and C. In fact, I think comparing Perl with JS is unfair; Perl is far easier to use for maintainable, large projects than Javascript is.
I can't remember the last time I paid cash for gas in Canada. In fact, I think the only time in my life I paid cash for gasoline was in Florida when the pump wouldn't accept my Canadian credit card. I had to go in, give $50, buy my gas, and then go in again to get my change.
Tolkien's work is love-it-or-hate-it and unfortunately I fall squarely on the "hate-it" side. I guess it's good to know that we can enjoy hours of tedium at a higher-than-normal frame rate, though.
That is a false dichotomy used to perpetuate the status quo.
Easy to say if you live in the US or Canada. Not so easy if you live in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.
it is no reason for the israeli government to continue with provocative policies like building new settlements.
I happen to agree. The Israeli government is astoundingly stupid and is compounding Israel's bad PR and international ill-will. Nevertheless, it's one thing to stop building settlements and quite another to withdraw from the West Bank or to expect peace from the Palestinians.
I am arguing for Israel to be treated by the international community (wrt to annexation of territory) exactly the way other countries such as Russia, China and Turkey are treated.
Or if you like, treat those countries the way Israel is treated. But at least have some fairness and consistency.
If you want your country to be safe and secure, don't make enemies of everybody in the world.
What's the alternative? If Israel evacuated the West Bank today, it would have rockets landing in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem tomorrow.
There is no solution to the problem. The best Israel can do is keep a lid on the violence and make sure it only proceeds at a low-level. Eventually, it may find a real peace partner in the Palestinians. But I'm not optimistic. Even the "moderate" Palestinians say very different things in Arabic to their own constituency compared to what they say in English for the international community.
Well, how conveeeenient. We (the USA, Russia, etc.) have grabbed all the territory we need, so now we'll make what we did illegal and grandfather ourselves.
There have certainly been other land grabs since the Geneva conventions (Turkey grabbing northern Cyprus; Russia grabbing Abkhazia and South Ossetia) and yet we don't see the hate-fueled virulent outcry against Turkey and Russia that we see against Israel.
Acquisition of territory by force has happened all through history,
is continuing to happen, and will continue to happen for the forseeable
future. The supposed illegitimacy of this practice is used as a tool
to demonize Israel, but it's completely ignored when anyone else does it.
The fact that other languages, built to modern standards, do it much better. E.g. Python.
Please enlighten me. What, specifically, is lacking in Perl's Unicode support? And how could it be improved? I've found it to be excellent, though the perlunicode man page must be read very carefully.
Ironically, Tcl still persists in many niches, in part thanks to the Tk.
I love Tcl/Tk. And guess what? Perl can use Tk as well, so there's your standard toolkit. I believe Python can also use Tk.
Great plans are great, but how about decent Unicode/utf-8 support first??
Modern Perl 5 has excellent Unicode and UTF-8 support. What about it do you find lacking?
And heck, 25 years on - and we still do not have standard UI toolkit.
I don't know of any other scripting language (except Tcl) that does have a standard UI toolkit.
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And you can select which one has the features you need, without the bits you don't care about
In theory, yes. In practice, no, because sometimes a CPAN module will insist on one specific module. And woe betide you if you want to mix modules that use different OO bases.
The mere existence of Moose, Mouse, Moo and Mo that purport to solve the same problem is an indication of a deeper underlying problem.
I like Perl. My company sells software that's primarily written in Perl. It's readable and maintainable because we follow strict coding guidelines, use proper modularization, and have unit tests that make sure our POD documentation is complete and up-to-date.
That said, a few things about Perl worry me. I think Perl 6 is a distraction; someone should take it out and shoot it. I predict it will eventually be abandoned the way PHP 6 was.
Also, while CPAN is awesome, inter-module dependencies are insane. Moose is all well and good, but sometimes you don't *want* 26MB of overhead in your Perl process just to use a fancy OO system. And since more and more CPAN modules are coming to depend on Perl, fewer and fewer of them are available for high-performance systems or where memory is an issue. Sure, you can get a 64GB server pretty cheaply, but (for example) when you're running 150 processes to scan email, 26MB/process adds up pretty fast.
The worry I have with Perl is that some developers are adding features that are pretty cool in theory and may make OO programming a bit nicer but which impose way too much overhead in many cases and which implement things 99% of people won't need.
My mail client path was from Pine to Thunderbird to Claws. Claws does everything I need and has lots of decent plugins including a calendar plugin. The sales people at work also switched from TB to Claws right around the time TB3 was released and decided to index gigabytes of IMAP folders...
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I find it interesting that all the posts that point out the simple fact that Islam is a dangerous, disgusting religion are modded negative. Are the Islamist astroturfers bringing out the votes? How democratic!
Turning off password auth is Basic SSH 101.
Where does it say that? Oh yes... in your Constitution. Which we all know is the UNIMPEACHABLE WORD OF GOD. And can never be amended.
Oh. Wait a sec.
It may read that way, but I don't think that's the intent. I think it's meant to allow Bell and Rogers to remotely update the firmware on their modems and routers. My mother uses Bell, but she runs Linux so Bell would have a fairly difficult time installing anything on her computer anyway. (To monitor her, they wouldn't need to... they could just install something on the router they provided.)
Well, OK. "Evil" is a strong term, but I can certainly agree with RMS's stance reworded as "Good and Bad".
Huh. I guess the shift key sticks on Macbooks.
The United States doesn't yet demand my fingerprints because---lucky me---I'm Canadian.
But it does demand fingerprints of most visitors. Someone needs to file a Freedom of Information request to find out how many crimes or attacks this policy has prevented per dollar of implementation cost. Then compare that to the US deficit and use some common sense.
Well, yeah, you can write obfuscated Perl (although what you wrote isn't even Perl... it's just a bunch of syntax errors.)
You can also write obfuscated C. And you can also write maintainable large systems in Perl and C. In fact, I think comparing Perl with JS is unfair; Perl is far easier to use for maintainable, large projects than Javascript is.
It's backwards to penalize people for conserving oil. This is a very short-sighted strategy.
I can't remember the last time I paid cash for gas in Canada. In fact, I think the only time in my life I paid cash for gasoline was in Florida when the pump wouldn't accept my Canadian credit card. I had to go in, give $50, buy my gas, and then go in again to get my change.
Tolkien's work is love-it-or-hate-it and unfortunately I fall squarely on the "hate-it" side. I guess it's good to know that we can enjoy hours of tedium at a higher-than-normal frame rate, though.
Ah, yes. The sacred and infallible will of the majority of UN members must be respected.
That court doesn't have jurisdiction over Israel since Israel never signed on.
Easy to say if you live in the US or Canada. Not so easy if you live in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.
I happen to agree. The Israeli government is astoundingly stupid and is compounding Israel's bad PR and international ill-will. Nevertheless, it's one thing to stop building settlements and quite another to withdraw from the West Bank or to expect peace from the Palestinians.
I am arguing for Israel to be treated by the international community (wrt to annexation of territory) exactly the way other countries such as Russia, China and Turkey are treated.
Or if you like, treat those countries the way Israel is treated. But at least have some fairness and consistency.
What's the alternative? If Israel evacuated the West Bank today, it would have rockets landing in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem tomorrow.
There is no solution to the problem. The best Israel can do is keep a lid on the violence and make sure it only proceeds at a low-level. Eventually, it may find a real peace partner in the Palestinians. But I'm not optimistic. Even the "moderate" Palestinians say very different things in Arabic to their own constituency compared to what they say in English for the international community.
Well, how conveeeenient. We (the USA, Russia, etc.) have grabbed all the territory we need, so now we'll make what we did illegal and grandfather ourselves.
There have certainly been other land grabs since the Geneva conventions (Turkey grabbing northern Cyprus; Russia grabbing Abkhazia and South Ossetia) and yet we don't see the hate-fueled virulent outcry against Turkey and Russia that we see against Israel.
Nonsense. If this were the case:
Acquisition of territory by force has happened all through history, is continuing to happen, and will continue to happen for the forseeable future. The supposed illegitimacy of this practice is used as a tool to demonize Israel, but it's completely ignored when anyone else does it.
The $140B estimate is for the entire US, according to TFA. That's about $450/person.
Unquestionably, the polio.
Please enlighten me. What, specifically, is lacking in Perl's Unicode support? And how could it be improved? I've found it to be excellent, though the perlunicode man page must be read very carefully.
I love Tcl/Tk. And guess what? Perl can use Tk as well, so there's your standard toolkit. I believe Python can also use Tk.
Modern Perl 5 has excellent Unicode and UTF-8 support. What about it do you find lacking?
I don't know of any other scripting language (except Tcl) that does have a standard UI toolkit.
In theory, yes. In practice, no, because sometimes a CPAN module will insist on one specific module. And woe betide you if you want to mix modules that use different OO bases.
The mere existence of Moose, Mouse, Moo and Mo that purport to solve the same problem is an indication of a deeper underlying problem.
I like Perl. My company sells software that's primarily written in Perl. It's readable and maintainable because we follow strict coding guidelines, use proper modularization, and have unit tests that make sure our POD documentation is complete and up-to-date.
That said, a few things about Perl worry me. I think Perl 6 is a distraction; someone should take it out and shoot it. I predict it will eventually be abandoned the way PHP 6 was.
Also, while CPAN is awesome, inter-module dependencies are insane. Moose is all well and good, but sometimes you don't *want* 26MB of overhead in your Perl process just to use a fancy OO system. And since more and more CPAN modules are coming to depend on Perl, fewer and fewer of them are available for high-performance systems or where memory is an issue. Sure, you can get a 64GB server pretty cheaply, but (for example) when you're running 150 processes to scan email, 26MB/process adds up pretty fast.
The worry I have with Perl is that some developers are adding features that are pretty cool in theory and may make OO programming a bit nicer but which impose way too much overhead in many cases and which implement things 99% of people won't need.
+1 also
My mail client path was from Pine to Thunderbird to Claws. Claws does everything I need and has lots of decent plugins including a calendar plugin. The sales people at work also switched from TB to Claws right around the time TB3 was released and decided to index gigabytes of IMAP folders...