It would really be nice to have a stable next-gen file system that can scale. ZFS is for the most part FreeBSD only and I'm just not reayd to switch to FreeBSD.
There's a Linux version of ZFS. As far as I know, it works quite well, though I can't make any guarantees.
as we all know, if a bad actor behaves badly and there is no punishment, what reason does he have to change his bad ways?
the fact that the US fellates all corporations, as a form of religion, is what allows them to continue the bad behavior. in fact, it encourages it by rewarding 'profit, above all else'.
it really seems clear to me that we have chosen the wrong 'god' to worship. profit, above all else, WILL be our downfall. it has started already and many of us see it. but our words are not being heard
It started with a good idea: make it so that a person who makes a mistake running their business can't be sued into personal oblivion. If you remove that major risk factor, it will encourage (or more accurately, not heavily discourage) more people to start their own businesses. Eventually, though, corporations got big enough that they could use this merely to shield themselves from the consequences of any actions they take, so there's no risk at all to doing things that would likely destroy most small businesses.
This is why we can't have nice things.
HTTP/2 over TLS could have been made mandatory.
Not if they're adhering to the OSI networking model. HTTP is an Application protocol, while encryption is a Presentation layer function. There shouldn't be any dependencies between layers.
Having now read TFA, I must partially retract my previous statement. Venturebeat isn't raising the angry mob, but Slashdot is.
No, it's not just Slashdot. It's also whoever came up with this line (either VentureBeat or the company's marketing department):
for example, substituting in synonyms or reordering steps in a process, thereby generating tens of thousands of potentially patentable inventions.
First, substituting synonyms doesn't really work. Within a patent's claims, different words are presumed to have different meanings (i.e. if you meant the same thing in two places, you would have used the same word). So if you have one claim that says something is "big" and another claim that says something is "large", with the rest of the two claims being identical, you'll need to explain the difference between "big" and "large", or else one of the claims will be invalidated.
Second, the steps in a method patent are considered unordered, unless some language imposes an ordering, such as saying, "After X, doing Y". Simply reordering the steps in a method does not by itself create a different invention, so one of the two claims would be invalid.
High drivers go right through red lights.
I thought most states allowed going right through a red light?
It's no more unreasonable than asking "I want to send a stream of bytes to another computer on the internet, how would I do that?" and expecting an answer describing TCP sockets.
Because both are pretty unreasonable. Why would you expect someone to answer such a vague question by describing TCP instead of describing Ethernet, IP, UDP, FTP, HTTP, scp, etc.?
Or perhaps it's funded by the NSA. "Let's get a list of addresses where people want to hide from surveillance."
You mean a list of people stupid enough to think that the federal government would be bound by this list?
Doesn't that sound a whole lot like a list of addresses the police would love to have?
Why, are you worried that the police will come arrest you in the middle of the night just because you don't want amateur pilots sending drones over your house?
Explain to us why we should not expect these guys or their business partners to profit off our personal information.
Of course I haven't read the article or looked at their web site, but what private information are they collecting? Assuming you have to own the land to be able to establish a no-fly zone, your name and address are already publicly-available information.
My shit might be stone age
Damn, what the hell have you been eating?
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde
