UNIX, and Linux, were designed with the concept that the hardware configuration was static during operation. So "startup" and "configuration" occured at the same time. Now that many peripherals hot-plug, that model is obsolete. Many people find it painful to switch to an "everything is dynamic" model, especially since, for many server applications, there is no hot-plugging.

Hence the unhappiness with a redesign.

This is a more general problem with UNIX/Linux. Many programs are designed on the assumption that they read a static configuration file in text format, and will be restarted if the configuration changes. Various hacks have been added to some programs to allow dynamic reconfiguration (often involving sending a signal to the process to tell it to re-read a text file). Real dynamic configuration models usually involve storing the configuration in a database, which a lot of UNIX/Linux types don't like.

Western Europe is already there. Japan is mostly there. China is getting there. Russia, not so much.

last quarterly financial numbers. Note the -62% margins. Uh oh. The press release has lots of happy talk, but the numbers don't back it. ("GAAP" here means Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Those are conservative assumptions. "Non-GAAP" numbers are numbers adjusted based on management's exclusion of certain negative items. They're usually flaky.)

The company was profitable at the beginning of 2013. They should have turned down the Apple deal. It's not good to have one big customer.

This is a huge vulnerability. Microsoft's claim that the code "turns off" after the test period has to be viewed with scepticism. If they can turn it off, they can turn it back on. Or someone else can.

This is telling us that Windows 10 is totally unsuitable for any business with security requirements. Lawyers, banks, and medical service providers probably can't use it and be compliant with the regulations in their industry.

So you are saying only rich people should be able to break the rules? Do you have any fucking idea how patently offensive and elitist your comment is?

When do they set up a "Cyanogen store"?

Even without Cyanogenmod, Android phones work just fine without Google services. At first power-up, there's a "sign up/log in" screen, with a "Later" option. Click "Later" and go on.

You can disable the "Google One-Time Startup" app to keep it from bothering you again.

If this was reported immediately, the sewerage plant could increase their chlorine injection to far higher levels than usual. Chlorine will destroy polio virus. Sewerage plants usually chlorinate at a modest level to kill bacteria, but in an emergency like this, they can easily crank the levels way up. Sewerage plants are constantly adjusting their systems depending on what's coming in.

If the safety people at GlaxoSmithKlein, or whoever this was reported to, called the plant operator at the sewer plant, there would have been immediate agreement to crank up chlorination levels, and sampling would have been started at the sewerage plant. The reports, which indicate after the fact analysis, indicate that didn't happen.

I wonder how much kernel they can throw out. There's tons of stuff in the Linux kernel that should't be there. If it can be done in a user space driver, it should be done there. USB devices, printers, etc. have no performance need to be in the kernel.

Lately, Slashdot seems to be echoing Hacker News, about three hours late. If you're going to be a scraper site, you have to do it faster.

Right. The original post doesn't make it clear that the system applies edge enhancement filters to the "real world" objects as well as the virtual ones. So everything looks crappy. It's not clear what this is supposed to prove.

Watching the video, the easiest way to tell real from virtual objects is that the amount of lag on the real and virtual objects differs.

On Craigslist, that's the profile of a spammer.

Yeah, fuck you asshole. Seriously. The PATRIOT act was passed by Bush and the Republicans, who also went on an eight year spending spree and ran up massive deficits, just that great conservative hero Ronald Reagan. Then there's that other great Republican hero Richard M. Nixon, who instituted wage and price controls, ran up up massive debts, spied on Americans who disagreed with him and was so out of control that even J. Edgar Hoover told him to fuck off, which is why the plumbers unit that tried to pull of the Watergate burglaries was formed. If we had a Republican president doing the same things you wouldn't be saying a single fucking word about it. You'd be down on your knees with his cock in your mouth sucking as hard as you could while he rubbed his flag pin and talked about Jeebus.

No business is going to "upgrade" their desktop machines for Windows 10. Their business applications won't run any better. If Microsoft wants to sell this as an upgrade, it has to run on the installed base of hardware.

Realistically, business mostly wants to run Windows 7.

That seems to have been a problem only with Windows XP. I didn't have it with Windows NT 3.1, NT 4, Windows 2000, or Windows 7. (I skipped XP).

Ubuntu Linux seems to have an incredible number of background processes that aren't really necessary.

Right. It's ordinary industrial automation. It's also strange that Intel would have CPU testers that weren't networked and reporting to some machine aggregating statistics and looking for process variance. It's pretty much routine in factories today to network the machines. That's been going on since the 1980s.

The Mitsubishi C Controller mentioned is just a CPU board packaged as a Mitsubishi Electric industrial automation module for convenient mounting in industrial automation cabinets. "It includes two Ethernet ports, an RS232 port, a USB port, a CompactFlash card slot and a 7-segment display for debugging and diagnostics. The (Intel Atom) CPU comes with the Wind River VXWorks real time operating system pre-installed." It's programmed in C.