On Linux the installation packages are signed (by third-party), not the executables.
Signed executables pose two serious problems:
1.The developers are effectively signing by themselves. Windows malware authors have no problem buying keys from Microsoft to sign their rookits as certificated drivers - until they're found.
2.Non-executable parts (anything non-ELF on Linux) are left for developers themselves to verify: such as VIM plugins/scripts. Most of them would never bother to develop comprehensive system for that.
The current solution of signing by third-party is not without drawback: time/delay is a key issue as they cannot possibly verify any software that is just released a few days ago, and commercial softwares are self-signed since they wouldn't allow their softwares to be distributed freely. Also they don't really verify new versions of existing softwares.
But it's still far more suitable than having developers doing all the signings by themselves.
What do you need their support for? The support guys aren't driver developers, or BIOS designers, or participating in any stage of OS or hardware development at all.
They're just useless, unless you're retarded to the point that you need a computer babysitter to troubleshoot app installation or usb problem for you. But I highly doubt such people would come to Slashdot.
These are just huge waste of money. You can use the same money to buy several of gaming cards - each of them is way faster than workstation card for many types of operations. Also since GPU computation is highly parallel it makes no point to have one super card instead of many cheap cards combined together.
Huh? Winform has been deprecated by WPF and XAML-based UI for 10 years. Winform is essentially the same old crap that comes out from OS/2 before made into Windows API, just an object-oriented wrapper of stone-aged tech. You have no idea what you missed.
It is even worse than Motif and TK, which at least have proper automatic layout system.
12 years and they still haven't solved the memory leak problem. Memory usage easily goes up to 1 or 2GB after a week of use and closing all tabs couldn't fix it. Compared that to Chrome - at least Chrome utilizes a multi-process model which ensures everything gets cleaned up the moment you close a tab.
The entire Mozilla/Gecko engine is NOT meant to be suitable for integration because they somehow decided it's better to have their own platform, GUI, internal scripting and everything instead of just a core engine. It's inconsistent in every way with every OSes it runs on, and also unnecessarily slower and more resource-hungry. Firefox is essentially a web-based shell to a web browser based on Gecko.
Clevo is Taiwan based but it doesn't sell in Taiwan. They don't directly sell it, instead their laptops serve as bases for high-end gaming laptops such as Dell Alienware. In US it's also sold by Sager, most of them are bought by enthusiasts because they allow you to customize every components from CPU to wireless module and heat sinks.
Their laptops are typically taller - 1.5x to double height, with higher power consumption and also no decoration at all (unlike real gaming latops).
It's like the choice between custom assembled PCs and branded PCs. But there is no reason to choose the later. Those companies don't make the MBs, or the CPUs, or the GPUs or anything at all except for the shell. So what do you need the brand for? Services? It's not like you can call Dell or Acer to fix bug in nVIDIA driver or mechanical problem in HDD anyway.
after a year or so of constant use I still really like it but it's not without certain issues, especially for Linux users.
You could get a Clevo laptop by probably half the price and everything you listed, plus 3-4 DIMMs, 4-7 disk slots plus removable CPU and GPU. They have unlocked BIOS by 3rd-party and the fact that all top overclocking records on HWbot are achieved on Clevo guarantees the quality - better than a piece of paper or brand logo.
First we need to understand how we think. But most people would probably go insane when they truly understand how human brain works and realize that we're just organic robots, designable, cloneable and completely predictable.
It is also immoral and terribly stupid for executes NOT to take necessary and legal actions to cut unnecessary cost for the benefit of shareholders.
It wasn't possible to do that kind of tax evasion before. But now with globalization everything becomes far more complex for governments for manage. Amazon in UK doesn't have to base in UK. It doesn't actually have anything to do with UK at all save the name of website. I'm from outside of UK but I also buy things on UK Amazon, things that are made in Germany or elsewhere and probably never touched UK soil from raw material to assembling to transport - would it be moral for UK government to collect tax on that?
So... we let the 99% suffer so we can live in luxury?
I'd definitely love that!
But suffering would be an inappropriate term here. They're merely forced to watch ads while willingly visiting free websites which rely on ads income to keep running.
We're just taking advantage of this inevitable situation.
He has a point. Ads are used to support many free services such as hobbyist forums which would otherwise be unable to run.
That being said, none of us here would be affected by banning of ad-blockers since we all know basic CSS and other ad-blocking techniques. We don't need it, and we can all benefit from others' lack of it.
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Every time you post news like this more of them will start wondering if they should just kill people to save the world!
Either that or kill themselves.
On Linux the installation packages are signed (by third-party), not the executables.
Signed executables pose two serious problems:
1.The developers are effectively signing by themselves. Windows malware authors have no problem buying keys from Microsoft to sign their rookits as certificated drivers - until they're found.
2.Non-executable parts (anything non-ELF on Linux) are left for developers themselves to verify: such as VIM plugins/scripts. Most of them would never bother to develop comprehensive system for that.
The current solution of signing by third-party is not without drawback: time/delay is a key issue as they cannot possibly verify any software that is just released a few days ago, and commercial softwares are self-signed since they wouldn't allow their softwares to be distributed freely. Also they don't really verify new versions of existing softwares.
But it's still far more suitable than having developers doing all the signings by themselves.
What do you need their support for? The support guys aren't driver developers, or BIOS designers, or participating in any stage of OS or hardware development at all.
They're just useless, unless you're retarded to the point that you need a computer babysitter to troubleshoot app installation or usb problem for you. But I highly doubt such people would come to Slashdot.
People should also start running naked publicly or having sex on bus. There is no reason to outlaw them!
Why should they care? It's the same business as making weapons, things we do everyday.
These are just huge waste of money. You can use the same money to buy several of gaming cards - each of them is way faster than workstation card for many types of operations. Also since GPU computation is highly parallel it makes no point to have one super card instead of many cheap cards combined together.
They will buy it definitely! No garbage no food!
Not cities, just army bases. He couldn't survive without military.
But how would a free and united Korea help us?
Self-evident by the very tiny numbers of Java desktop applications on Linux, where most desktop applications are meant to be cross-platform.
Huh? Winform has been deprecated by WPF and XAML-based UI for 10 years. Winform is essentially the same old crap that comes out from OS/2 before made into Windows API, just an object-oriented wrapper of stone-aged tech. You have no idea what you missed.
It is even worse than Motif and TK, which at least have proper automatic layout system.
12 years and they still haven't solved the memory leak problem. Memory usage easily goes up to 1 or 2GB after a week of use and closing all tabs couldn't fix it. Compared that to Chrome - at least Chrome utilizes a multi-process model which ensures everything gets cleaned up the moment you close a tab.
The entire Mozilla/Gecko engine is NOT meant to be suitable for integration because they somehow decided it's better to have their own platform, GUI, internal scripting and everything instead of just a core engine. It's inconsistent in every way with every OSes it runs on, and also unnecessarily slower and more resource-hungry. Firefox is essentially a web-based shell to a web browser based on Gecko.
Clevo is Taiwan based but it doesn't sell in Taiwan. They don't directly sell it, instead their laptops serve as bases for high-end gaming laptops such as Dell Alienware. In US it's also sold by Sager, most of them are bought by enthusiasts because they allow you to customize every components from CPU to wireless module and heat sinks.
Their laptops are typically taller - 1.5x to double height, with higher power consumption and also no decoration at all (unlike real gaming latops).
It's like the choice between custom assembled PCs and branded PCs. But there is no reason to choose the later. Those companies don't make the MBs, or the CPUs, or the GPUs or anything at all except for the shell. So what do you need the brand for? Services? It's not like you can call Dell or Acer to fix bug in nVIDIA driver or mechanical problem in HDD anyway.
after a year or so of constant use I still really like it but it's not without certain issues, especially for Linux users.
You could get a Clevo laptop by probably half the price and everything you listed, plus 3-4 DIMMs, 4-7 disk slots plus removable CPU and GPU. They have unlocked BIOS by 3rd-party and the fact that all top overclocking records on HWbot are achieved on Clevo guarantees the quality - better than a piece of paper or brand logo.
Environmental damage is to humans not others, definitely not silicon-based machines.
But they might kill 99% of humans to save mankind, if they're made to help us!
First we need to understand how we think. But most people would probably go insane when they truly understand how human brain works and realize that we're just organic robots, designable, cloneable and completely predictable.
s/executes/executives
It is also immoral and terribly stupid for executes NOT to take necessary and legal actions to cut unnecessary cost for the benefit of shareholders.
It wasn't possible to do that kind of tax evasion before. But now with globalization everything becomes far more complex for governments for manage. Amazon in UK doesn't have to base in UK. It doesn't actually have anything to do with UK at all save the name of website. I'm from outside of UK but I also buy things on UK Amazon, things that are made in Germany or elsewhere and probably never touched UK soil from raw material to assembling to transport - would it be moral for UK government to collect tax on that?
And extremely short-sighted.
Just an observation from real life experience...
Yeah they'd be wondering if you're one of Ancient Aliens.
I know they don't like it, but they like the websites enough and decide the annoyance of ads is worth the pain.
It's their choice. We should respect that!
Important to what?
So... we let the 99% suffer so we can live in luxury?
I'd definitely love that!
But suffering would be an inappropriate term here. They're merely forced to watch ads while willingly visiting free websites which rely on ads income to keep running.
We're just taking advantage of this inevitable situation.
I thought Kim Dotcom has something to do with Lord Kim in best Korea and dotcom means some Internet-related company there.
Turns out he's the guy behind Megaupload. Nothing to see here.
He has a point. Ads are used to support many free services such as hobbyist forums which would otherwise be unable to run.
That being said, none of us here would be affected by banning of ad-blockers since we all know basic CSS and other ad-blocking techniques. We don't need it, and we can all benefit from others' lack of it.
Thank God, NASA does not waste its limited budget by sending trash to orbit!
It shouldn't have limited budget! It's our future!