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> I'm mainly responding to the first part: "As much as I dislike class action law-suit trolling"

Yeah I got that. My point was that first part was just setting himself up to explain why he thought this lawsuit was a good idea - which you were arguing as well. ie you're focusing on the wrong part of his post and thus arguing against his post while agreeing with the majority of it.

> "I also don't see how I have simply re-iterated the same post, OP and I are looking at different angles of the same issue. Fundamentally I think we do agree: Lenovo did a shitty thing and should pay for it."

Hence why I said "near-reiteration" rather than "simply reiterated". You still argued the same points and came to the same conclusion regardless of your differing starting point with regards to class action lawsuits.

> I simply don't think there is anything wrong with the method or the result here. This is exactly what a class action lawsuit is intended for, there's no trolling about it.

Again, nobody is suggesting otherwise. You're preaching to the converted. ;)
Or that is what they say. I don't expect they are facing a real DDOS, they are just facing so many embarrassing questions that it is convenient to call the flood a DDOS.
https://twitter.com/Cryptomeorg/status/566616227582582785

Is that good enough (taken from further up in this thread)?
Well, you know, we don't even arrest employees of American companies, like anyone on Wall Street.
Yeah, we got classes now (ES6). You happy, Pappy?
Can anyone say the type of renewable energy: Is it wind based?
> As ProjectB made no changes, there was no creative input, so they cannot use copyright law to enforce difference license terms.

I'm not sure that's true. BSD-style licenses allow you to sublicense the code under a more restrictive license if you feel like it.

This is has no real-world effect though.

If you have code licensed under two licenses you (the user) can always choose to use to code under the more permissive license (MIT in our case). But technically, it's licensed under two and I don't think they have to be compatible.

By the way: This has nothing to do with copyright. If I didn't change your code than I'm not a copyright holder of your code. Doesn't mean I can't license it to other people under a different license though.
Why is this downvoted? Knowing very little about the debate, just seeing this comment grayed out doesn't help inform me. If the comment is not helpful, I wish someone would reply with information to explain why that's so. Is Devuan a bad project for some reason? Is this spam? Or is someone just dismissive of the need for an alternative?
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It is a herculean task to replace such a core piece of the Linux system architecture and it is amazing that this has been generally a success.

This will lead to a lot more efficient and maintainability of the Linux OS for a long time to come once we get past the near term hurdles of reduced stability and various regressions (and obvious design issues to be resolved) that come from such a huge change.

I'll be honest, I didn't think this was possible.
You and the parent are both right. The problem with Comcast is that many people (I being one of them) have no choice in the matter. It doesn't matter how much I despise my ISP, for they are literally the only game in town. My vocation dictates I have high-speed internet, thus I'm forced to work with Comcast.

Shaming Lenovo or its partners can make a difference because people do have a choice here. There are many laptop vendors out there. And if "Vintage Investment Partners" becomes well enough known as something the public finds distasteful, it could conceivably cause other companies to shun them as well.

You know, at least until they change their name. Still, I'd argue that if people cared enough, this approach would work in non-monopolistic cases.
The fields there, would you say they lie low? Are they populated by small birds? b^)
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No it is not the same thing. It provides a different way of looking at the same problem. Because if we force the direction of time to be always forward, we would have to modify our understanding of physics to make that assumption hold, leading to a different view of the same results, which could be extremely useful.
I find these papers from 1999 by Daniela Florescu more informative with regards to the benefits of the various schema available to map semi-structured data:

http://dsl.serc.iisc.ernet.in/~course/TIDS/papers/daniela.pd...

http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/mathkour/XML%20DB/A%20Performance%...
> For a distribution that is known for it's stability and conservative approach to new software

I imagine many people might trust systemd more than the overlapping set of init/cron/at/supevisord/monit/forever/user generated SysV init shell scripts of varying quality.
At least they include sysvinit support. That's far nicer than any other distro.
Might I humbly suggest that anybody serious about this issue read (sadly, the late) Manny Lehman's "FEAST" publications? He attempts to quantitatively model software evolution, which includes complexity, errors of omission (limitations of domain model), errors of commission ("bugs"), etc. It is fascinating reading. I remember many "Aha!" moments when seeing the graphs. It also contains many quantitatively-derived principles one can operate by, some of which underlie pg's "beating the averages" argument.
His wikipedia page is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_Lehman_%28computer_scien..., and the FEAST pubs are here http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/mml/feast2/papers.html
Wouldn't this trigger antitrust craziness if framed as an increased license fee for their choice of pre-installed programs?
Apart from discouraging future VCs, legit question - do you think those listed ones had any idea about how does it exactly works? I mean, you need to be careful what you support, so I think that list is great anyway, just wondering how it usually looks like.
Tangent: I was recently wondering the same about pipe organ music. Its music has a huge effect on me, wonderful sensations that sometimes cover all my body.
Never found anything to read about these sensations nor about the impact of exposure to a given kind of music at a young age on how deeply you get to like it.
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I have to say I am surprised. From where I sit migrating to systemd doesn't look like the best solution. But, said that, I'm gonna get some popcorn and watch another holy war starting.
Looks like we see eye to eye on this one. Basically what I said is that the license (technically without the disclaimer) needs to appear (the ISC license chooses that language) somewhere. That's it. Put one copy of it somewhere (not sure if it needs to be visible to the end user) and your good to go. (Assuming that the license includes the copyright notice at the top.)
I don't see where they claim they're still secure… it seems they'll only tell the public what they've discovered tomorrow.
This is so incredibly stupid. Latency to Ireland from all over western europe is way more than anywhere else.

Irelands tax evasion methods will not last.
Proving damages will be a major hurdle in this case.

The LinkedIn data breach lawsuit, which pertained to the 2012 compromise of 6.5 million user passwords because the company didn't salt stored passwords, was dismissed because the plaintiffs couldn't prove any concrete damages from the password disclosures: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/03/08/linkedin-lawsuit....

A related LinkedIn lawsuit, based on California consumer protection law, did go forward and end up settling, though for a very small sum. The theory in that case was that LinkedIn advertised that they used "industry standard security" in their privacy policy, and that people wouldn't have purchased Premium had they known that LinkedIn ignored industry-standard practices like salting their passwords. But only about 20,000 people actually read the privacy policy, meaning that damages were fairly nominal.

So are there any damages to support a class action lawsuit here? Did anyone in fact get their PC's compromised as a result of the pre-installed software? It seems like Windows Defender has been removing the software within a few days after the vulnerability was disclosed. Business users might have a stronger case based on their costs of having to remove the software and check that nothing was compromised as a result. But they probably didn't buy the consumer-grade Lenovos this was installed on in the first place.
>Not really. I got my info from senior managers at some of the (very large, Taiwanese) companies concerned.

Oh. Why didn't you tell me that you had a real authoritative source? /s

>Microsoft has never been accused or taken to court

Microsoft's historical business practices WRT both Apple and Linux are well documented. Lawyers have made whole careers work generated. There is no need to hash this out for the billion +1th time.

>These are among the reasons why it's h...

I don't know who you think you're arguing with. I haven't asked you for seed money. I've not tried to convince you to go into business selling PC's.
I don't really understand the force that makes so many distros adopt systemd either.

Who/what is driving this despite all the controverse?
One thing I'm sad we didn't get to include this week is Tor specific improvements; we made a lot of those over the past couple months, but there's still more to do -- that's Q2.

Everything this week is HTTPS and TLS specific.
I seem to remember that SystemD caused quite a stir for Debian a while back, but I don't remember exatly why.

Can anyone give a (brief) explanation as to the background of the controversy?
Not sure what this is supposed to be. It's obviously not meant to be functional. It doesn't look good (rather, it looks purposely bad). And no matter how close to the real thing you make it, it's not going to fool me into feeling like I'm on a CRT when I'm not. So I'm not feeling nostalgic for it either.

The best nostalgic experience I got this year was booting my raspberry pi for the first time, because you can have it boot straight to command line. It brought me back to my first DOS pc, when you had to type "WIN" to run Windows.
This would probably be the right way to go. I even started working on a solution last year (see other comment), but got side-tracked by real-life issues.

My idea was to write a PG extension which would handle all the smarts, and expose a set of sql functions which could be called from the application side. Those functions could then be wrapped in nice client libraries to give a consistent mongo-a-like interface across languages, with the client doing the bare-minimum to shuttle data to and from the database server.
I think Debian has taken a conservative approach. For example, Arch adopted systemd as its default years ago, which means it was already stable enough for daily use years ago (although I think Arch helped pave the way for its adoption by the larger distros). systemd is not really "new" software anymore; it's been around the block a few times. Even RHEL7 has adopted systemd.

I suppose one might say that this is a core component of the system and even three or so years of testing is not enough... But, I think at that point, we're off in the realm of opinion.
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It's amazing that €850m project is expected to bring only 300 jobs during multiple phases of construction. Avg'd out thats nearly €3m of expenditure per employee. Nearly double Apple average earnings per employee of $2m. Impressive!
The double Irish isn't a competitive tax rate. It is a tax evasion scheme. Just some links I found quickly:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/opinion/ireland-still-addi...
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/abolition-of-double-...
Not really, it's mostly sheep and the un-employed :)

In all seriousness, it's a lovely little town, with some nice scenery and good people. This new data-centre should see at least a short-term boost to the local economy, which basically sank into a black-hole after The Collapse.
> they need to do full disclosure like how many old type jobs are destroyed due to their actions

Except that in the case of Apple, they single-handedly created a whole new industry (app development), empowering individuals to be able to write software without support of, for example, an investor, publisher, or major company backing them.

As far as I can tell, the only things that Apple and smartphones and whatnot helped out of business was those crappy ringtone and text message subscription services. Of course, new laws also helped with that.

You also mention Amazon, who did introduce a ton of new entry-level jobs, yes, but if the stories coming from the order pickers are correct, they're not really great jobs. Plus Amazon is working on making those positions obsolete with further automation (robots and stuff).
How instant alerts work? Do you check for changes every minute? Or you use Github web hooks and they trigger your services whenever someone stars/forks?
Linux is free and there's no stopping anybody from doing whatever they want to it.

Windows is not free.

When an OEM licenses Windows for resale in their PCs, that comes with certain terms and conditions about what the OEM can install. If this falls within the terms of the agreement of what the OEM can do, then Microsoft needs to take at least some of the heat.
RE: passworded drives.

To access a BIOS passworded drive all you had to do was swap it for another for which you knew the password, boot into the BIOS and change the HDD password. It will ask you for your old password, you enter it and you go to the new password input screen. Now you take out the HDD and put the locked one in its place. You press enter twice, setting the password as blank, and voilá, you have your locked drive unlocked. Just boot the computer and no more HDD password. Have fun.
I would consider advertising on StackOverflow instead. I sold developer products for 7 years and they were the 2nd best conversion after Google Ads, but our product was a tool where specific search terms were obviously going to convert. Even on SO, we advertised on questions related to our product -- so you might not do as well.

3rd was developer focussed online magazines. I would also try retargeting (from Google) in conjunction.

Google ads works best when you are really the answer the searcher was looking for -- if you have search terms that you think you are legitimately the top result and the competition for ads isn't insane, it's worth a try.

You can go in a little and measure the results for all of these choices.
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I think Jessie already uses Systemd on new installations. This is just upgrade path, which makes sense, since other init systems are unsupported (nobody is doing the work).
I've recently replaced three lenny servers (two LAMPs and a name server) and rather than go with Wheezy I migrated the three of them to OpenBSD. On one I added apache from ports, the other I was able to use OpenBSD's new httpd and I found I really like OpenBSDs built in named.

Other than that I've been playing around with FreeBSD and have revisited Slackware which was the first Linux I was introduced to via a book/cdrom back in the mid 90's.

Having had some success with OpenBSD on servers I'm running it on a laptop as one of two workstations at work. The other has Wheezy on it. I'm able to do most of my day to day work on OpenBSD but do find myself remoting into the Linux box for some things (e.g. mysql-workbench).
Some people claim SystemD is not in line with unix philosophy. Some think it is bug ridden. Some just feel its adoption was strong armed by political heavy weights. Some feel other solutions might be better. And others believe there was never a problem with the current solution to begin with.

(I don't agree btw, just giving some info on opinions that others have)
Refilling and storage issues are being worked on by using ethanol instead of H2 (look up Direct Alcohol Fuel Cell). It is considered better than methanol due to a much lower toxicity and higher energy density but the tech is just not there yet. This is considered to be the future for medium size batteries (small vehicles, hand machinery etc.).

Beyond that, what is wrong with green crude-derived fuels (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel) as a medium of energy storage?

It is being produced right now in small quantities after refining green crude made from algae grown into water/sunlight (carbon neutral form).

Some advantages:

* doesn't compete with arable land like corn ethanol
* can be grown in salt water
* no oxygen atoms to oxide your tank/engine
* much less sulfurs or combustion by-products than fossil-crude refined fuels
* can be refined using existing infrastructure
* can be distributed using existing infrastructure
* can be used in existing vehicles and machinery
* recycling combustion engines is much less energy-intensive than batteries
A while ago, as a consumer, you could get 'green energy' for a small extra fee. This was compensated again with government grants, so that 'green' energy was the same price as 'gray' energy; the government-funded surplus was then used (in theory) by the power company to build wind farms and whatnot.
This whole init vs systemd has been a very divisive (and ongoing) debate, and both sides feel very strongly on their particular stance. Just look up the pages that come up for a "init vs systemd" search on the net.

From what I see on the devuan page, in the spirit of FOSS, the people that prefer to keep init as part of their setup, have forked debian into devuan, and propose to retain the "init based debian", for people that prefer init scripts.

That's the shortest summary I could come up with for you.

Another short writeup by @tinco https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9094142
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"Initial conclusions already indicate that Gemalto SIM products [...] are secure [...]."

It's the last sentence in the article.
The developer should absolutely be involved in that discussion, as the person with the best information on the cost of supporting that long tail. If complexity makes the system less reliable for the 98%, supporting the 2% may be a fool's bargain. (If, I say - your mileage depends on your tech and your team.)
>>is the fastest hardware available for anything, many times faster than x86-64

Thats a rather bold claim. Do you know of any benchmarks for this?
Oh god I hate these type of comments.

Please if you have nothing constructive to say, don't be rude and dismiss somebodies hard work. It's infinitely easier to put someone down than it is to actually produce something.
This is the wrong question to ask. You should ask, what are the cheapest ways to acquire users? Most companies can successfully market themselves through a dozen or more channels, yet almost all never use more than 3.

Search traffic is bottom of the funnel where people express intent. If there is existing demand for your service, than search traffic is valuable. If there isn't demand but there are competitors, bid on their brands, if you are in a new industry with no real competitors you probably need a reality check but search is not where you will find users.

Because search is bottom of the funnel and demonstrates explicit intent it is the most expensive traffic out there. It definitely works though and anyone who says differently just gave up before finding profitability.

I tell my clients to invest $5k in search the first $1k will return $500 (lose $500). The second $1k will return $800. The third will break even, the fourth will show a 25% profit and the last $1k will find profits you can scale.

If you don't go in planning on losing a bit to find what works (or go in with a site that won't convert) it won't work. If not there is no reason it can't work.

All that being said...Facebook right now has the most robust targeting in the advertising world short of massive enterprise DMPs. Milk it for all its worth if you can.

Read jonloomer.com to master Facebook ads.
vote here https://launch.appoutloud.com/ideas/1037 for the build at launch hackathon this weekend
The UML thing made me think of this: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/137
There's a number of datacenters being built in the Netherlands; one way up in the low-populated areas (actually closest to Denmark), IIRC bought by Google. They're even building a power line to Germany so that they can get power from there, where it's a bit cheaper than in the Netherlands itself.
We have no architects. Everything is design-by-committee, and the design is horrible. It wouldn't matter if we had them. The business believes iterating on the business plan and direction is agile development, the result being a code base full of dead ends and code that should be refactored or deleted, but can't because it will take a non-trivial effort to do so since data is already deployed to production. If we ever do take the time to clean up, that's a sprint the business doesn't get any backlog items, so those sprints are few and far between.
And, for the record, it was not the news story of the decade.
Yes, for the most part.
Corporation tax is low at 12.5% which is probably what the parent is referring to.
The computer industry throws around contracts of adhesion because they are legal.
You are right but it's deeper than that. The entire philosophy is nonsensical. Notably Etsy didn't restrict their own scalability. It's not like each order was hand fulfilled or something. Etsy is very happy to utilise their capital to scale their business while they restricted their sellers from doing the same. It's funny that this article positions Etsy as selling out, where as what they had before was a manifestly unfair business model for their sellers.
What's your budget? It definitely 'works', but you need to see if it 'works for your case' or not. It can look expensive so before you jump in, determine LTV of a customer and then calculate how much of it are you willing to spend on acquiring a customer.
I'm getting sick of flat design. But let's not go back to skeumorphism. A few years ago, when fake wood textures were all the rage, I remember being so frustrated at some of the interfaces. Lots of awkward metaphors (Oh, I'm supposed to click the inkwell to write a new document?) and poor discoverability (That's a button? I thought it was part of the background!).
Any chance for audio or video recording, if not streaming?
It looks like their domain/project name has changed, but this was discussed on Hacker News recently; the project got a fair bit of flak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8477659

Maybe the downvoter(s) were some of the same folks who raised their concerns in the above thread? Or maybe it's just the typical systemd holy war going on. I'd guess the former though.
I'm a certified ridiculous person, but sometimes I really enjoy using bash and Emacs in a full-screen crazy terminal simulator. And I often feel like computers have enough graphics power to look really cool but that they often look really plain instead.
Personal opinions from the user perspective aside, it's significantly easier to maintain from a distribution / package maintainer perspective, so it's unsurprising they'd want to switch.
And most definitely not a move designed to sweeten the European Union's mood after their investigation into Apple Europe's (allegedly) illegal tax deals :P

(http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-663_en.htm)