That is a pretty great thing, as far as I am concerned. Custom ASICs for routine server tasks that would otherwise clog up a general purpose core? I'll take it.
If you do not have at least two cards here, you do not understand how the domestic credit bureaus work. It is a major factor in determining your credit-worthiness for everything else you do. In countries with higher levels of home ownership and expensive education, it matters a lot, and it is not necessarily all about using them for consumption.
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if there are any consequences to having Belarus have domain over your--well--domain. It is a modern country with a well educated populace, but its government is Europe's last dictatorship. I imagine there aren't consequences, but you have to wonder if the founders considered any of the legal issues with spinning the globe to find a country with a matching top-level domain.
The one downside to this in terms of this move increasing adoptions is that RHEL 7 will be based on Fedora 19 not Fedora 20 and subsequent releases. If Python 3 managed to be default on RHEL/CentOS and the like, that would have a much broader impact.
I don't know exactly what the author is referring to, but I know that C is unique in that it will never go away. So long as new hardware primitives come into play, we will always need to return to the level of C to squeeze out performance. This will only become more and more true as the ascendancy of multicores continues. A buddy and I were thinking about it just the other day: could you even imagine a closer wrapper for assembly with comparable ratios of effort to level of control?
"He also asserted that he was able to protect the documents from China’s spies because he was familiar with that nation’s intelligence abilities, saying that as an N.S.A. contractor he had targeted Chinese operations and had taught a course on Chinese cybercounterintelligence." I would like to know the exact wording of this because it comes off as extremely arrogant when paraphrased.
Right, there is the tacit assumption that he and his generation have earned it. This read like a cross between a monologue from "The Newsroom" and a very poorly thought out commencement address.
This is not about FOSS, it is about one man's vision to circumvent the mainstream developer community. Ubuntu chose to make the transition from pre-configuring Debian and making compiz themes for Gnome to trying its hand at systems-level programming. It would be somewhat self-assured of them to assume that all hardware vendors, who are already heavily invested in Linux, as a platform, would necessarily pick up the slack, especially when those investments did not foresee a move like Mir.
Part of me kind of wishes that this had some trivial, totally safe and innocuous consequence that you could still appreciate somehow with a Mr. Wizard type experiment.
Shuttleworth's interview about how they are going to keep the long term future of Ubuntu's phone OS from fragmenting while still allowing complete manufacturer customization was a really disappointing string of non-answers. I am really confused about how this is going to shape up. Maybe this will set a precendent for a Nexus-style standard device with the blessing of Canonical itself.
The title makes it sound as though this has been accepted into the Linux kernel when in fact it has not been. It is designed to work with the Linux kernel but it is in no way associated with Linux. FUD much?
The missing bit that stands out is the processor. They seem to have all of the peripheral hardware fairly well specified, but the power consumption and final dimensions, etc. are strongly dependent on the processor they choose.
Looks really good. One thing to point out that is probably a one-line fix: the month being displayed for news articles is exactly one month before the actual date they came out.
He is already a civilian and will not be court marshalled, which is why Bradley Manning is in a military prison. Ellsberg enjoyed the full rights of being a civilian when he leaked from RAND Corporation. The thing that a lot of people do not get is that the Snowden case would go through the civilian courts system. Sure the more sensitive subjects would be subject to injunctions and have be argued before being admitted to court, but the same thing is going to happen with the EFF case in the Northern District of California.
They think this on the grounds that he would have been tried as a civilian whereas Manning was court marshaled. I am surprised Ellsberg didn't mention that distinction. I do not know how the trial would work, though, given its sensitive subject matter. Ellsberg's position at RAND had a similar relationship to the defense establishment as Snowden's, and he was still considered a civilian.
FISA theoretically had restraints as well (50 U.S.C. § 1803, Pub.L. 95–511, 92 Stat. 1788, enacted October 25, 1978), but it did not stop the process from being corrupted and automated. When the capability is there, there is nothing stopping it from being abused similarly. The Western country and alleged safeguards that happen to be in charge of said apparatus is really irrelevant.
Why is it only bad when the BND works with the NSA? If it is just intercepting all day to flow across Germany's borders via DE-CIX it is potentially equally problematic.
Again, this is not surprising. European politicians have just been caught with their pants down: on the one hand drumming up populist support by pandering to anti-American sentiments when the opportunity presents itself, and on the other being party to the alleged crime, or in France's case having its own de Gaulle-style internet-based signals intelligence network, which we can presume it shares with no one, unless asked nicely.
Yeah, I agree with their move here. If the EU really wants to start getting into issues that deal with fundamental sovereignty as opposed to the environment or labor and capital flows, I can think of a number of countries that would be out before the gavel even hit the block.