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Interesting. Thanks for sharing. What surprised me was this section:

The United States government did not
formally apologize to Iran.[14] In 1996,
the United States and Iran reached a
settlement at the International Court of
Justice which included the statement
"...the United States recognized the
aerial incident of 3 July 1988 as a
terrible human tragedy and expressed deep
regret over the loss of lives caused by
the incident...".[15] As part of the
settlement, the United States did not
admit legal liability but agreed to pay
on an ex gratia basis US$61.8 million,
amounting to $213,103.45 per passenger,
in compensation to the families of the
Iranian victims.

Is the refusal to accept responsibility policy, monetary or simply down to arrogance?
As Google has come to dominate the browser market, they've slowly made Chrome more and more integrated and reliant their own propriety services. They've done away with the concept of a homepage and exclusively control what the new tab page looks like. There's no way for users to set a competitor's site as the new tab page.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2918032?hl=en

> "If your default search provider isn't Google you may see a different layout on the New Tab page."

They advertise their own products on search results, pushing organic results down even further.

They pulled a bait and switch with Android, turning it into GoogleOS.

Google throws its weight around just as much as Microsoft ever did, they just smile while they do it.
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"In the early 1950s, the police actively enforced laws prohibiting sexual behaviour between men. By the end of 1954, there were 1,069 gay men in prison in England and Wales, with an average age of 37."

"1952 - Sir John Nott-Bower, commissioner of Scotland Yard began to weed out homosexuals from the British Government at the same time as McCarthy was conducting a federal homosexual witch hunt in the US. During the early 50's as many as 1,000 men were locked up in Britain's prisons every year amid a widespread police clampdown on homosexual offences. Undercover officers acting as 'agents provocateurs' would pose as gay men soliciting in public places. The prevailing mood was one of barely concealed paranoia."

It's a well-documented thing. Claiming that the targeted harassment and prosecution of the LGBT community never happened is a very dangerous form of denial. You can find anecdotal stories all over the Internet, and in modern media including mass market films. This is the entire reason we have gay pride. I'll see if I can find a book on the subject.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20522465 - "It was something that gays had to go through in those days. If you were gay you were in trouble with the police."
We shot that fridge from earth and guided it for 10 years and prior to launch we had it in planning for another 15 years or so to have a battery depletion on the second day?

Why didnt they just use nuclear energy?
Which ZFS on Linux is not? I guess it depends on your definition of stable due to the upgrade from libzfs1-2 but the richness of the Debian packaging system is just too good to pass up for me.
Cool, where do you work? I work for an image sensor company (CMOS - not CCD), though I'm a pure software engineer (wafer and assembly test software among other tools) so I don't know that much of device physics, only that which I've gleaned from company-wide presentations and the such.
Not surprised people dont know that - Debian kFreeBSD is pretty obscure, and he had heard of HURD. And Android is still slightly a Linux fork, even if it is gradually converging, while the other non Gnu userspaces are not mostly entirely non GNU yet.
The TL;DR is really: No idea what I'm doing here, so I might as well blog about it.

An application doesn't magically allocate less memory when running under a different kernel. The underlying idea must be that LLVM wins over gcc in a real world scenario, which certainly would be interesting, but there is really nothing to suggest it here.
I have nothing against "underrepresented people", or any particular feelings toward any class of humans not defined by particular actions.

My views towards poor people are the same as my views towards myself and my friends; most of my own problems are my fault. This is doubly true when statistics suggest a correlation between bad behaviors and negative outcomes.

Note the vast majority of my posts are merely discussion of the world as it is, not an expression of mood affiliation (" I'm so empathetic to favored groups, bask in my moral virtue"). And if you actually want to fix things rather than morally posture, you need to do the same.

Further, note that in at least one of your links, I'm advocating in favor of the poor (India being my goto example) and against the rich (american "poor"), at least if you read my post through thr lens of mood affiliation. But I guess "those people" don't count.
I liked it better when mega-corp didn't come with a side of self-righteousness.
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Here we go again, some one telling us one os is better then the other ^_^ Never listen to anyone saying that. Simply use the OS that works best for YOU period. Few replies here where correct, linux uses more memory because it works like a cache, to not use HDD so much and if you have enought memory like 8GB+ you don't have to use swap at all.
One single repository containing many different components of the OS, which are not designed to be interchangeable. Basically the biggest complaint most systemd critics have ('monolithic!').
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Here is a comparison between the current FreeBSD vs Linux performance/features http://assente.vega9.com/it/freebsd_vs_linux_2014_performanc...
> FreeBSD gave my computer a new life, otherwise I was nearly going to get a new desktop because of shitty performance. In other words, it saved me ₹35000+

No, it didn't save you any money. Delaying a purchase is NOT saving money.
I think you can compare by total output. How about we normalize based on manufacturing output vs population and claim China isn't a manufacturing economy either.

If you have a manufacturing sector roughly the size of the entire economy of France or Russia or Brazil, and that doesn't qualify as having a manufacturing economy, then no country qualifies as such.
Google throws its weight around just as much as Microsoft ever did, they just smile while they do it.

I think it's less a matter of attitude and more a matter of being really, really good at doing it either unobtrusively or at least in a way that people won't mind or won't understand.

With so many years of experience with how users interact with information, they have the potential for unprecedented insight into the realities of UI interaction.

I'm not saying it's a good thing, and I agree that Google isn't doing us as users any favors in this regard (any more than Microsoft ever did or does), but there's more behind the fact that they're getting away with it among less user outrage than simply public image.
Google for "Freebsd vs Linux 2014 performance and features" to see other considerations about the current status.
sure it is. if you buy new hardware on a regular schedule (e.g. every 3 years), extending that cycle out (e.g. to every 5 years) saves you money.
It matters because if it "invades" your distribution of choice. Imagine you've been useing a distro for years and grown to love it and now systemd is being forced upon you of you make the next major upgrade.

Like ELF, glibc2, egcs, devfs, hotplug (the old script-flavored version), udev, eglibc, etc.

I am mentioning these, because all of them caused a controversy with a vocal minority. It is evolution. None of these are controversial anymore. Some of them were replaced, because they were bad ideas in hindsight (devfs).

By definition any fundamental part of the system (such as init or the C library) that changes is 'forced upon' the user.
While I respect other people's option for FreeBSD (I tried it several times), in my ~3 years experience using Ubuntu Unity (from 11.04-14.10) I never had low memory or unreasonable swapping (swap is zero 99% of the time I check). My laptop has 3GB of RAM and I was always impressed with how little memory my usual session (1-5 apps + Firefox/Chrome with 5-10 open tabs max) consumed compared to windows: the average memory load was around 33% of the 2.7GB available = ~1GB. For some time I was using virtualbox with 1.5GB RAM allocated to it and I still didn't use all the RAM available and the swapping was minimal if not 0. My conclusion: I'm highly sceptical that Linux memory management is bad enough to justify giving up the ease of installation and the minimal configuration & tweaking Ubuntu needs after install.
Never listen to anyone saying that.

Better suggestion: Be careful when listening to anyone making absolute judgments based on generalizations.

Some operating systems, just like some applications, are better for certain purposes (often because they were designed and built specifically to be suitable for those purposes). "You can do anything with anything" is a very idealistic oversimplification that's implied by the idea that no OS is ever better than any other.
you probably didn't read what Petrie multiplier is - it clearly explains why heavily disbalanced industry like hi-tech consisting of practically non-sexist/non-racist Jesus-es would feel like sexist and racist environment by the corresponding minorities. Onus is on you to show that people in the industry are actually sexist and racist - according to Petrie multiplier, minorities feeling bad isn't enough to conclude that the majority consists of sexist and racist people.
> like how to tweak fontconfig to get clean & beautiful fonts, etc.

That's quite something to drop just like that. Any links?
It is saving, delaying a purchase that would be financed out of debt until you accumulate cash allows you to save on debt interest. Alternatively, if you already have the money you can invest them for a while and earn interest.
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This is when you trek up to Cosco in East Harlem. Getting one of the hire cars back is only around $10.
Does imposing “fine” actually help identify all the fraudsters?
I wonder if you are not the target audience?
First of all: what makes you think that FreeBSD does not do disk caching?

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handb...

enought memory like 8GB+ you don't have to use swap at all.

...depending on usage. We have 64GB+ machines at work that regularly go swapping. It depends on various factors: how quick do you want the OOM killer to kick in, how slow do you want the system to get as a result of swapping, and how much budget is there available to buy machines that can take more memory.
A friend of my friend it translating biography of Grothendieck from French to English. If you want to support her effort, here is the crowdfunding site: http://www.gofundme.com/7ldiwo

She already managed to translate a few chapters: http://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle...
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You seem to be saying that men were not prosecuted merely for being gay men or just for having consensual sex with other adult men in private, and that the men must have been having sex with children[1] or in public.

Thousands of men each year were arrested and locked up. Police were acting as agent provocateurs (thus entrapping these men) so obviously many of those prosecutions involve sexual activity in public -- where that's defined as "being approached by a police officer acting as a gay man and having a conversation with that officer".

You appear to be applying stricter standards of conduct to gay men than to heterosexual people. We can see very many convictions of gay men for gross indecency in public. But this definition of "public" included (until the year 2000) anywhere where a third person may be present - two adult men in one of their homes would have been having sex in public if one of those homes was rented lodgings; this was an additional restriction on gay sex that heterosexual couples didn't face. This extra restriction was included in law in 1968, and overturned in 2000.

Finally, around younger people: laws for heterosexuals had the age of female consent at 16 for heterosexual sex. But for gay men the age of consent was 21. Thus a 25 year old man having sex with a 16 year old woman was fine, but a 25 year old man having sex with a 20 year old man would be arrested and imprisoned.

[1] children need to be protected from sexual predators. Suggesting that gay men are more likely to be sexual predators is not supported by any evidence and is a homophobic slur that needs to end.
The comments (amazingly) have some insights - including someone who used his chat history to analyse his changing vocabulary and more - quite a fascinating idea for those who will live digital lives for decades.

But what seems to be missing is simpler - googles core function is search and until that is a level playing field we are all at the mercy of Google. I am not a reactionary "nationalise everything" but the biggest uses of global data surely surely must be public goods and treated as such?
> An application doesn't magically allocate less memory when running under a different kernel.

Different default allocator can make a difference, though - FreeBSD defaults to jemalloc iirc.
Agreed. Compare that with http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
>So it's not that surprising that Javascript also inherited homoiconicity from Scheme.

Actually it didn't. Javascript is not homoiconic. JSON just happens to be almost like a homoiconic version of the Javascript array and dict data types, but that stops there.

For one, there are some restrictions to what can be valid JSON that are not the same for JS code. And then there are functions etc, which are not in JSON.

And the idea that JS is somehow related to Scheme isn't really true (despite being repeated even by Eich). What it has common with Scheme, tons of other languages that nobody will ever say of them to be related to Scheme have. What it doesn't have in common is what makes Scheme scheme. See also:

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt...
Which ZFS on Linux is not?

Given the licensing issues of combining GPL with CDDL code, ZFS will probably never be included in major distributions (assuming that the license will not change), so they will never have the same amount of integration as e.g. FreeBSD has in the installer.
I'm currently working on a similar (hopefully more simple and cheaper) product MetricBoard (direct demo: https://metricboard.io/webui/demo)

Although this currently only let's you push metrics via the API or upload a CSV. I personally would not be comfortable having a 3th party connecting directly to my database.

The product is still in development but I would love to get some first feedback / user testing.
I run my own XMPP server (prosody), yet use google apps for my domain; due to an annoying chain of dependencies, this means I can't use Google Photos.

To allow other google users reach you at your non-google server, Talk+Hangouts have to be disabled in the google apps admin console -> Google+ doesn't work without Hangouts enabled -> Google Photos doesn't work without Google+ enabled.

The fact this happens seems to mean that google does not want to play on a level field; but wants to build a walled garden.
You think Linux is alone in acting like that?
Tgv beat that speed many years ago, on rails : http://youtu.be/8skXT5NQzCg
Some universities, such as the one I went to, have degrees that combine some normal B.Sc degrees with honors. Such that after completing it, you can start with your masters.
[Edit: this perhaps should have been "Changing semantics based on visual attributes is not"].
I am sitting on the Sakura Shinkansen headed towards Shin Osaka as I read this.
Also, few monthes ago kFreeBSD was discussed if it may be supported or not in the future.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/09/msg00...

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2hvikt/kfreebsd_port_...
Does Chartkick (highcharts) and other open source libraries not support your use cases?!
JavaScript is not homoiconic - JavaScript code could not be expressed as JavaScript data structure. That's the main point. If you could express your code as a data structure of the same language you can write programs to modify your programs (macros)
>"Without Android, phone makers could shut Google out of mobile phones completely. Chrome and Android help ensure that users can get to Google without interference; they protect our users from other companies’ potentially unlevel playing fields."

Isn't this just saying that Google won't block its own services on Android? There's no guarantee that Google won't block some other search engine. FWIW, I think the App Store / Google Play stores are the biggest obstacles to openness. They are literally determining what users can and cannot be run on their respective platforms.
When I'm tired, I do gardening. But where I live I'm happy to have a lot of sun, most of the time and my place kind of in the suburbs so whole thing is perfect for gardening / taking care of plants, flowers, etc.

EDIT: Sorry didn't read the question well enough. Gardening isn't an good alternative career path to programming IMHO, just a nice distraction. Even helps you think about programming and/or other problems.
Come on, the computer industry existence rely partially on cyclic purchases for that exact reason. My neighbor got a brand new SONY laptop so she could do .. everything I already do on my 2007 ThinkPad. And she can't so she pays me to fix her system from time to time. It's not far fetched to say that different OSes can and will save you money.
No, but maybe others don't report such memory as used, which seems unfortunate to me.
> They've done away with the concept of a homepage and exclusively control what the new tab page looks like. There's no way for users to set a competitor's site as the new tab page

Huh? This isn't true at all. There are a ton of new tab page extensions and all the functionality you'd want that's in the default one (like most visited sites) is available through the extension APIs.
Maglev also beat that speed many years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record_for_rail_veh...

In 2003 the Japanese maglev test train running on the same test track reached 581 km/h. It was not until 2007 that the TGV reached 574 km/h.
Businesses will push for anything that can make them profit. For these companies Net Neutrality happen to fall into their profit domain so they push for it. But fundamental rights and values should not be up for anyone to debate or lobby. Net Neutrality should be part of the constitution.
Oh come on! This is the second comment in this thread that seem to claim Linux is so special and glorious. FreeBSD definitely does this, maybe even 3BSD or 4BSD did this.

Functionality like this is basic OS design knowledge.
Yes, but there's a second-order effect. By having Android be a compelling platform, iCloud (or whatever) can't be as easily competitive in the marketplace as a data silo. If my only option for a cell phone were iOS, I'd probably be a lot more willing to buy into Continuity and some of the other Mac-and-iOS-only features.

On the subject of platform curation, it's worth noting that Android lets you sideload apps with a checkbox, and the most generous interpretation is that Apple wants you to pay $99 for the privilege. But I also think it's possible to run an app store ethically and fairly, on a "level playing field" if you will, and in fact Google and Microsoft are both top developers on Apple's.
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Well, your suggestion? Could you pick up the right parent element in the ontology?
Each have their own definitions and ethic (or maybe aesthetic is a better description). Google have a strong advantage in discovery. They have more influence on "discovery" of everything from podcasts, books, applications, journalists, and everything else than any other company. They certainly use that weight. They can get users to any of their products. But, it is true that these products are not usually very lock-in. Search is very easy to switch from. Gmail is pretty easy. Network effect products like Wave, talk, circles, hangouts are actually the products Google has had trouble getting traction with. They got users, but not the lead in their markets.

MS have "weight" with OEMs and decision makers at companies from one man shows to fortune 500. They use that, which creates a nasty distance between liking the software you personally use and the decision to keep using it. Even Berkshire Hathaway's website is made with frontpage.

Apple have an interesting version of this. It may be their achilles heel, but it's also made them bold and creative. Apple products sell to the public, not to businesses and not through businesses. They don't rely on deals with OEMs, retailers, distributors, corporate buyers or telcoms to make sales. They don't even rely on discounts and competitive pricing. They definitely don't chase price/feature niches. More than any other company they rely on sheer consumer demand for their products. That means they would find it very hard to survive a "Windows Vista" period of ambivalence about their products. The trait is probably a long term liability. But, it is a version of level paying field, win by winning approach that produces bold product decisions.

All three are "cheats" by some standards, including (probably) the standards of the other two.
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Are there any bootbale images to play with? Or it's all build from source at this stage?
> There's no way for users to set a competitor's site as the new tab page.

I just tried setting my default search provider to Bing under settings, and it shows up on the new tab page just as Google does. I'm one version behind latest stable, on OS X... does this not work in your version of Chrome?

It seems the other three search engines in the dropdown don't do this, though, but my reading of the link is that they all have the option to provide Google with some UI.
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What about a level playing field for Hangouts and GTalk?
I suspect publishing this post now is aimed as much at an internal Google audience as at external players.

Bearing that in mind, I think "a level playing field" is an excellent goal for Google to aspire to.

To say what Matt can't: if Google plays on a level playing field it makes them a much more attractive partner and supplier.
I suppose yes, as you can do basic authentication on POST/PUT and let without basic authentication on GET. But this will require you to setup the correct rights at the Nginx level.
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner is still my favorite novel while A Ticket to Tranai by Robert Sheckley is my preferred short story.
"The Pentium chip's math error (1993)"

Pretty sure that's a hardware bug.
I would pick Dune, Lord of the rings, and anything by Zelazny and Steven Brust as my two followups.
Probably the userland allocator, doesn't FreeBSD use jemalloc by default?