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I hope this continues, and I hope it gets worse. That way the politicians get to see how stupid the process really is, and to see that the big content companies aren't their friends.
I stand corrected, but why on earth not add a link to the main page or the landing page linked to in this HN post?
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I'm pleased to see that evil deeds have consequences, though I'd like to see Oracle suffer a little (OK, a lot) more before getting over the hump. People don't use Oracle Linux because the Open Source community doesn't trust Oracle (and they shouldn't; that mistrust has been well-earned over a couple of decades).

There's a lot of reasons not to use Oracle Linux, most of them non-technical. Oracle is simply not an ethical member of the Open Source community, and if you trust them, they will screw you, some day, some way. Red Hat may have their flaws, but they've never sued over patents and they've never attempted to destroy competing projects or companies through legal threats and bullying. CentOS may be slow to jump on updates sometimes and to get out new releases, but at least it's a good Open Source citizen.

As an aside, if you want a faster moving RHEL rebuild that has paid developers working on it, you might try Scientific Linux. It is built by CERN and Fermilab, and tends to be very solid and fast to update and invisible (i.e., I don't think about it, at all, and it Just Works). We switched from CentOS to SL back when CentOS 6 was so late being released; couldn't be happier with it. We added support in Virtualmin for SL for just that reason...so many of our customers wanted 6, it was worth the effort to add a new OS.

So, yeah, Oracle is gonna have to have a "come to Jesus" moment if they want to participate in the Open Source community. They've got a lot of repenting to do.
> static images - especially taken at those dreaded angled/screenshotted Dribbble perspectives - of an interactive experience don't sell me.

After Kirill's remark I'm not sure why I'm replying, but my overall point is that the lack of minimum shots-per-project give little to no context of the app or the cohesiveness of the UI, which is why it's hard to tell if they're real or just concepts. I also think it would benefit the designers and scouts alike to have their uploads sorted by project so you aren't just clicking into a random assortment of thumbnails and you/your perspective clients can link others to specific ones instead of saying "Click on the one with the big pink star."
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It extremely saddens me that Qt is still not heavily working on mobile. I would gladly pay for official support on Android and iOS. They could have become the cross-platform mobile toolkit. I wonder if Nokia is the reason why that's not happening.
> I know we all like to think that corporations are evil and the presence of corporate interests actually messes stuff up.

But Oracle actually is evil.

> But this really is one case where you want the oomph of bilion-dollar company making sure that you get your security updates in time.

Don't be naive, Oracle wouldn't be doing this if they didn't see a substantial business advantage.

> No one else is providing that. Oracle happens to be doing so, and we're making it available to you for free, so why shouldn't you benefit from that?

Awww. Oracle is so altruistic!

Oracle has proven time again that they can't be trusted, and giving Oracle more control can only be bad.
An excellent question. Honestly, because the page was intended at people already running CentOS -- I thought people would be much more inclined to switch a system they already have than to reinstall a brand new one. Clearly I was mistaken :)
Thanks for the brtfs, but no thanks. I'll only touch your stuff with a GPL pole and with a non-oracle maintainer.

If you want support for Centos, please consider redhat *

I'm sure there are some good people at Oracle, and maybe this is a genuine project by some of them, but the hierarchy Oracle is under is just too fickle (as what happened with OpenSolaris).

*Not redhat affiliated. Not even running redhat or fedora anywhere. But on enough mailinglists to see that RH isn't a respected open-source company for nothing.
A company giving out rewards for good work? They exist??

Serious response: my company wouldn't, not a chance (as you may have gathered by my not-so-serious response!). Great idea though.
Right, because employees are unaware of any tech trends besides those bestowed upon them by their office IT departments.
The two biggest factors in LEGO set price are licensing costs and piece count. That's why official sets tend to be simpler than fan sets. When they do make complicated and large builds, they tend to be expensive, like $100 for the Sopwith Camel.
Yeah if it's pretty much the same, then I don't really care to change. I'm used to screen and happy with its functionality. Vertical splits aren't game-changing enough for me to learn a whole new app.
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They dont necessarily store your password in plain text, they could (and probably do) store each character of your password in a salted hash.
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I'm not in the least a fan of Oracle, but I think this could still be a safe move for a free EL distribution.

It don't see a major drawback here:

- You get faster and more reliable updates, especially important for security updates.

- The release schedule will be more predictable (I know a lot of people moved to ScientificLinux while waiting for the CentOS6 release)

- It's binary compatible with RHEL (and therefor CentOS). Meaning, that you can drop the Oracle repos and move back if you don't like the behavior you're seeing upstream.
For the uninitiated, RedHat was so unhappy with Oracle repackaging/reselling a nearly identical system that they started obfuscating their patches:

http://www.itworld.com/open-source/139165/red-hat-defends-ke...

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Red-Hat-defends-chang...
There are a few companies that have internal reward systems like this that I've come across in the past. Usually bigger size companies. You'll have to try and validate this with target customers to see if there is enough of a need for this to be a real business.
Ever play "Six degrees of Kevin Bacon"? Doubtless that they are building a comprehensive social/activity/location/finance graph of as many people as possible so that when someone pisses off the wrong people they can be dealt with completely.
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It's obvious why Oracle is doing this. It's the same reason Red Hat does Fedora. It doesn't cost anything and eventually, you might reach a size or a problem where you need support. If you do, and you are running the free version of a company's Linux, that is the company that you will inevitably turn to (with your cash) for support.
Sad how close to true this is. I used to work in transportation, and at least the USA* the figure is about $10-40M per mile, with rural highway being cheaper and urban highway being more expensive. So $1.6M really could buy you as little as 64 meters of freeway. (Or as much as 1/4 km!)

* Which, I should mention, has a bit of a tradition of cheaping out on the construction. Why worry about the higher maintenance costs when that's going to be your successor's problem? Better to kick that can down the road and brag about how much taxpayer money you're "saving". Ahh, the beauty of the spoils system.
Maybe the region only provided part of the total project budget?

As another data point, a somewhat similar but larger project -- about 100km bike highway in an urbanised region -- in Germany is probably not going to happen due to costs of >110 million EUR. That's approximately 10x as expensive per km as the project in Copenhagen, if the $1.4 million is the total project budget after all.
The advantage of Oracle Linux that I see is the newer supported kernel version, On both Oracle Linux 5 and 6 you get 3.0, compared to 2.6.18 for RHEL5 and 2.6.32 for RHEL6.
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Yes, it's bad security. Either they have the password in plaintext or they hash each character individually. Either way, it's less secure than you just providing the full password.
I'm a regular commuter cyclist (Halifax, NS; now Ottawa, ON) and how I wish I could ride on such a highway! Even the best cycling lanes I have experienced are punctuated by stops, intersections and red lights. When you're cruising at 35km/h, there is nothing worse than having to come to a complete stop.

More of this please.
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People forget how quick it can be to get the tools to do simple things like SQL Injection and XSS without even trying. They are free and EXTREMELY easy to get. Not covering those basic security flaws will allow any "script kiddies" to get into all of your data. Even still though, some of the more sophisticated attacks, like Social engineering, are not being made into tools that anyone that can use a computer can use. Its not so easy to make secure things because the hackers only need to be right once, you need to be right every time. Also remember, you're only secure as your weakest link.
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It's quite possible, that, being a huge company, they do a lot of bad crap (they are not high on my list), but there are some good people there trying to do good things.
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... Wikileaks, anyone?
I think the model Mr. Schmidt is advocating has been tried, and destroyed in front of our eyes by multiple collaborating governments (sweden, america, england) and corporations (paypal, visa, et al.), in the last 24 months. Perhaps Google would have a better shot at defending itself.

The article seems more written out of shock, the absurdity of his travel experience, rather than an actual long-term plan to disrupt the cartels by injecting (pun? maybe) technology into the problem. The onus at this point is on the governments, which have bigger pockets and more methods of organizing large groups of people, compared to the individual citizens involved who are as Mr. Schmidt himself puts it, 'overwhelmed by crime'. We can't simply treat this specific problem as if it appeared yesterday, it has a history and evolution of its own. Certain methods have been tried, there have been many scandals, people revealed to be 'on the take', thousands of innocent bystanders have been slaughtered. This isn't day #1, and that affects public reaction.

Something else to keep in mind is that this isn't Occupy Wall Street either, you're not just going to get slapped with a loitering ticket and walk it off, there's a very real x% chance that your wife or kids could be targeted (that means 'killed and (maybe) raped'), which isn't a risk you can expect anyone to stand up against out of their own will and the promise of anonymous packets tracked by a unique ID suggested by a guy who got off of a private jet.
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If you switch to Oracle Linux and if you have some major problem you can't fix, then the next logical step is to pay for support. It would be a simple step to take since you're already running the official version.
Its actually surprising that US fell for it.

The US didn't fall for anything - 9/11 was an opportunity to advance military goals in the Middle East. We planned to invade Afghanistan before the event[1]. About three weeks afterward this plan was expanded to include seven countries in ten years ("Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran")[2]. Some of those were accomplished by the "Arab Spring", but the State Department wasn't uninvolved in that and asked twitter to reschedule maintenance so that it would be "an effective communications tool" during the 2009 Iranian election[3].

The only confusing actor is Bin Laden, who attacked a superpower that had already expressed a desire to invade his people.

[1 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1550366.stm]

[2 http://www.salon.com/2007/10/12/wesley_clark/]

[3 http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/06/16/us-iran-election-t...]
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There were two big reasons reasons the US went into Iraq. One was Saddam Hussein and WMD. Everyone believed that he had them, and it's a matter of fact that he had used them in the past. Though they were never found, it's not illogical to believe that he was simply able to move them elsewhere or destroy them before they were discovered. And taking out his regime would remove a large destabilizing factor in that part of the world (in theory anyway).

The other reason was to create a local distraction. To keep "the terrorists" occupied, their violence and attacks confined to that part of the world, and not in the US. In that sense, they "fell for it" too.

If the public need for "revenge" had been satisfied by attacking Afghanistan, I think Clinton would have stopped there. He was not a risk-taker, and he was totally driven by polls.
The guy you're replying to has implied he works for Oracle and helped bring this to fruition. Instead of asking what the advantage they see is or diving into it, you've accused him of lying and being a part of an evil organization.

Oracle's a business--they make good products that many businesses rely on. While they've done some stuff that this crowd greatly disproves of (see: Java copyright/patents lawsuits), their motivation for doing this could be as simple as keeping the brand's security image in place.

I just want you to know that you had a good opportunity here, and you wasted it.
> why is Oracle doing this?

Red Hat must have pissed them off or something. Maybe they realized how many people are leaving Solaris for RHEL.
Just an FYI but I'm fairly certain wdahher is Waseem Daher who is the cofounder of Ksplice. So if you're wanting to hear it directly from the "horse's mouth", this is probably a good place to ask some questions.
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Because if you're running Oracle Linux for free, when you need support you're more likely to start paying Oracle than you would be if you were running CentOS or Scientific Linux.
I could imagine Oracle's long term goal would be to replace Red Hat's role as The Linux Distribution for commercial stuff. One way to do this would be to start this way. Without giving their stuff for free, they would never gain significant share of the total market.
mrs is weird, water is wet, politicians lie. News at 11!

Guess what: hackers are weird, and they like to tweak their environment to perfection.
Try doubling the price of gas and slap a 180% tax on all new nonelectric cars.

Danes are not that much more interested in protecting the environment than the rest of the world -- we just can't afford cars.
I'd rather have "very cold" than "above freezing, but wet". If it's well below freezing it's easy to stay dry due to water's tendency to stay solid. And if you're dry, it's much easier to regulate your internal temperature.

Of course, salted roads can give you the worst of both worlds: wet & very cold.
Well, World War I was referred to as "the first world war" as early as 1914 [1] and the term was fairly popular even before World War II, so there is some precedent.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I#Names
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Yeah, it says it's gambling. Even if it's mathematically fair gamling, that doesn't make it a "fair" way to spilt a bill.
> Last I heard there was not going to be a need for an extradition hearing as Mr Dotcom was volunteering to go to the US and stand trial as he was certain he would be found not guilty in a courtroom

Not quite. Dotcom has offered to voluntarily fly to the US in return for them releasing a portion of his funds so he can mount a defence.

The likelyhood that the US will accept his deal is close to 0.
That particular playset is a take on the Lego Heroica style sets [0]. They're meant to be played kind of like DnD, and to be <$30.

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ok, that was a lot harder than it seemed
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I've dealt with both RHEL and OEL support contracts over long periods of time, in large scale environments (a few orders of magnitude larger than your example). OEL was free as we had other Oracle licensing in place and the thought was "Why not switch and save money?"

We eventually switched back to RHEL. It's well worth the money for any serious player. The "support" from OEL seemed fairly amateurish -- for example broken hotfix packages that appeared to be one-off builds.
It was the same with Firefly design, because the show has a lot of sex and violence. The same with Shaun of the Death.

Also, sometimes the legos will end up less promising than it seemed at the beginning - see the official Minecraft Cuusoo lego - http://www.jinx.com/p/lego_minecraft_micro_world.html .

And also, the LEGOs are not produced in so big numbers as normal lego boxes, so they are not sold in regular retail, but only on internet in limited numbers.
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What a bullshit comparison.

They mean to replace RHEL (paid support) but try to win over CentOS customers (who surely won't pay for support, if they would want to, they would use RHEL and thus would have even faster security patches then Oracle Linux).

Stay away.. as far as possible.. thanks.
so when centos is dead and buried and oracle turns round and shafts us we should say "well, there were some good people there...."?
I feel better on my Typematrix (EZReach 2030). Best would be a combination of the two concepts, of course. Like the Kinesis Contoured, or http://trulyergonomic.com (if you can stand the mechanical keys).
Not to mention Red Hat is their competition in the Java space. Capturing people from Red Hat's ecosystem and moving them towards Oracle's is a pretty aggressive move. It's war on Red Hat. And also on Microsoft, which is using CentOS as a weapon against Red Hat on its Azure platform.
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Now, since I'm not in favor of any form of mandatory schooling it doesn't really matter to me exactly why the Swedish schools suck... But you must keep in mind that there was another, rather large reform in the early 90's: the responsibility for the schools were transferred from the state to the municipalities. This hasn't exactly worked out well either and surely has had impact on the PISA rankings (see e.g Maciej Zaremba's articles in DN, http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/maciej-zaremba-en-forolampning-... ).
This is a really smart move. I started typing a huge write up why, but there are too many reasons why this free product/paid support model are good for both Oracle and their future clients.
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Responding to update glanch that his profile is probably marked as a spammer and all comments made by him are greyed out (he probably is seeing them ok.

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"Fell for it"?

It's easy to "fall for it" when you are in the position to make a LOT of money for that fall. Cheney. Halliburton. Exclusive government contracts. Sickening.
I found this link, I assume you found the time to upload it?

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ahomescu/happyjit_paper.pdf
That example doesn't really apply if tribes continually split and the more violent tribes continually kill off the less violent tribes.
I do - I put somebody through rehab last year. Legalize them.

I don't think a lot of people appreciate the gravity of the situation when you're trying to score heroin just to make it vaguely possible that someone can take a bus trip back to their parents to get help.
I think it's more like "you are meaningless to us unless you want to buy a support contract". They do the exact same thing with MySQL. Download it and use it, but don't bug us unless you have cash in your hand.
I agree. He was tirelessly innovating, and he was rigorous about it by always choosing the best players and letting them influence him as well. He also wasn't afraid of calling out other musicians on their crap, or praising others for playing brilliantly ("motherfuckers" he called them in his autobiography).

I believe his contribution to music was more profound because he kept evolving and maintained his no-bullshit attitude. I admire that as both a musician and a software engineer. I'm grateful for this link showing up on HN too!
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Nifty idea. I'm having a hard time setting it as default search for Firefox though.

I followed the instructions to "Add a keyword for this search"...but I'm not really sure how to make it default? I don't see it anywhere under the searchbar dropdown ("Manage Search Extensions") and don't see anything under the general options.
On PISA tests:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_Stu...
http://www.localschoolsnetwork.org.uk/2011/01/why-gove-no-lo...

Article from Swedish Radio:

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&...

Report on OECD report:

http://www.antidotenews.org.uk/?p=628&dm_i=LEV,ACD6,33QO...

Mostly it's in Swedish media, though. And what's been most criticized is the ability to extract profit from state funds, given that the biggest independent schools are owned by off-shore VC companies. The situation is similar with Swedish healthcare.
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You got a very good point here. Look like the big names, it's good for image. Especially when you have a terrible image like oracle starts to have. ( or did it have it since a few years already? )
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Why all the vitriol towards Oracle?

Not that I care either way, I don't have any stake in the matter. I just don't have much experience with them outside of limited usage of Java.
I was pretty stoked to wake up to the jealousy comment this morning. "Why would we make a mobile site for a site about mobile?" got me good too.

What wonderful ways to respond to people you're trying to profit off of.
I could see one good thing that could come out of this - Redhat offering their distribution for free.
Over a year ago, I actually read the entire document, and he explains why all of that material is there. I will just say that he travels a great deal speaking about Open Source, for little, and often no, money. All of these details are there because they have come up in his travels, some of them frequently. You’ll find that people who travel a lot for business, and even for personal reasons, all have lists like this, written or just mental. When you’re on the road, little things matter a lot because your comfort and schedule is so dependent on them. I don’t think he’s weird at all, but the guy that calls him a weirdo on fireandknowledge.org comes off as a judgmental jerk.
Have you considered adopting the British system?

You bid out the construction to the cheapest contractor with strict penalties for late completion.
But the same company then gets the contract for repair and maintenance for the next 20years!

Politicians were shocked when their brand new freeway closed for resurfacing within a month of opening.
If you can't write code vs I’m a software engineer who says Writing tests for your code may not reduce the number of bugs, but it will make fixing the bugs you inevitably find easier.

Sorry, not the same type of person.