Comment Re:You'll end up with an empty repository (Score 1) 72
And don't they all use systemd? They must have a good reason for it.
And don't they all use systemd? They must have a good reason for it.
Look at the prison models of almost any other industrialized Western country - make even the slightest genuine effort to reform people instead of considering them subhuman to be inhumanely tortured by the circumstances of their confinement followed by blocking them from participating in the economy upon release and results will improve.
Improve public education and remove inequalities and you remove crime as the best option for catching up to everyone else.
AI won't be used to help convicts, because nobody in the US wants to help them. It'll be used to better manage their shackles for increased profits.
Yeah, but to facilitate you continuing to use your familiar commands, the maintainers of the distro have to forego the convenience of systemd. Clearly it offers a lot to them, which is why the vast majority adopted it.
Is there any info on how this location tracking would work? GPS isn't going to cut it, it needs a battery and world wide cellular/satellite connection to track things being shipped, and once installed will be in a Faraday cage (the server enclosure/rack/datacentre).
Are they going to rely on it detecting when it is in a Chinese server somehow? Try to get an external IP address? Something in the driver?
It seems doomed to fail and easily bypassed. I'm sure it will spur further investment in Chinese AI chip manufacturing too, which is already progressing at a very rapid pace.
UTF-8 was a mistake. I get that they wanted to make string handling with existing code as painless as possible, and for most Latin derived languages a 32 bit char is approaching 75% wasted space, but the issues introduced by UTF-8 are far worse. UTF-16 doesn't have enough code points. You could argue for 24 bit.
Cylindrical cells are not the future though, they are older tech and have proven to be largely inferior to prismatic and blade batteries. Prismatic cells for lower cost and higher energy density, blade batteries for extreme performance. Tesla is using older chemistry too.
You botched copy/pasting the quite. I fixed it for you:
To start less.
And to start more in parallel.
That makes complete sense and is in fact how all major operating systems optimize boot times, and how software developers often optimize performance in general. Do as little as possible, and do as much of it in parallel as possible.
Tricky to do with init scripts because there are a lot of dependencies to manage and checks that need to be done for timing and sequencing. systemd makes it easy and I've used it extensively for building a custom OS for embedded systems where hardware init and configuration has to happen in specific sequences, but can be parallel with other parts of the OS starting.
It's interesting that you mention unreasonable costs for end users, because most distros have adopted systemd. That suggests that you want to impose unreasonable costs on distro maintainers for your own benefit.
1) Typically the systems monitoring, if not the systems themselves, is dumped on the police along with the funding. I agree in principle that police data systems should be handled by an arms-length agency without ties to any particular police service. I also believe this should include their body cams, interview room video, and even their fleet and weapons/ammo tracking. They should not have any oversight over their own data because that leads to the potential for abuse.
2) At least where I am... officers can query, but queries of federal databases are audited and monitored. You've never seen someone walked out of a building faster than when they are caught with their hand in that particular cookie jar. And yes, charges happen for the serious incidents. However, that still leaves a lot of room for abuse of non-federal data.
On the other hand, this is a great way to fish out the few bad ones.
Except it doesn't. Only a tiny fraction of the cops doing such stalking get caught.
And that title is backed by the fact that a decade ago or so I was implementing proper auditing to track cops because they were... abusing video systems and it made it into the news.
Cops are just people, the badge doesn't confer ethics or strength of character. It often does confer a sense of superiority to the general public and a belief that they're above some of the rules the rest of us abide by.
Even the best, most upright cop should never be taken at their word - there should always be some form of oversight. Because they're humans.
The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.