Disaster was averted so narrowly! He was busy defending christianity from the looming threat of pagans on Fox News that day, and couldn't have been lost along with the plutonium to cause the apocalypse. Simply a scheduling conflict. Does Tuesday the 29th work out better for you?
While it's true that a version transition like that hasn't happened again, it's utterly naive to think that just because there are newer versions available that they would be suitable for an industry such as ATMs or banking, which require serious reliability. There have been periods during 2.6 and 3.x where, for instance, ext4 drivers would silently corrupt data for a few stable patches.
You're talking about FAR beyond the notion the notion of "long term support", into "indefinite, forever, and guaranteed stable/regression-tested/quality-assurance-tested" support on one particular version for at least the next 10-15 years. Version upgrades (like from 3.2 to 3.3) would be completely out of the question because it could introduce a regression and take down a nation-wide ATM network or silently corrupt transactions without any way to easily debug and fix it in a short period of time. Every ATM also has to be effectively interchangable with any other ATM. Version changes break the ABI and require any external modules (likely required for an ATM) to be recompiled. The slightest mismatch between perceived ABI between different modules will cause corruption and/or crashes. So you are, in essence, only talking about security fixes on an already-reliable version, and the security fixes can't change any data structure sizes or perceptions.
That is basically what Windows Embedded versions offer. The kernel layer ABI sometimes changes in consumer Windows versions (and includes enterprise and server versions) due to compatibility or security fixes. It's still the #1 cause of BSODs because of antivirus or other security software.
The linux kernel's QA is basically "if it compiles and looks remotely OK, it's fine to put in a stable version".
FreeBSD would be a much more appropriate target for such a device, due to strong QA practices (everything must be tested) and a total commitment to maintaining both the kernel and userland ABI for an entire major release version cycle, except that of course it's more or less only available for x86 (which is one of the reasons why Sony put ORBIS right over the top of a FreeBSD 9.x base).
So other suggestions on this story in general about embedded-specific OSes where you can buy upstream support forever (such as QNX) are entirely correct. Linux has to be treated with an extensive set of rules that nothing else does. Newer Windows Embedded will have to be replaced too often and takes far too long to boot or service.
Once you commit to an ABI, though, that's it. The hardware can't change (except possibly external/add-in peripherals that are optional), kernel modules can't be recompiled. Any versions of any libraries won't increment. System services and other binaries also likely will rarely change, only for serious and required fixes that have been extensively tested. But any individual binary or library on the system, which includes any kernel level stuff, has to be completely and seamlessly interchangable with any other. That may well be a binary that's 15 years old, or comes from 15 years in the present-future. That's how all of that works. If it doesn't work that way, it'll cause serious problems and chances are the company as too cheap to have a "plan B-H" to get things working within the hour.
Well, we all know how well that's going to turn out.
Unless I'm reading it wrong, it previously appears to've been released under a BSD-like license that is non-copyleft, allows commercial redistribution. The only reason it's GPL incompatible is because they describe the venue of law under which the agreement is binding.
And they aren't dual-licensing, but simply relicensing from one to the other. That...is actually a step backwards. In general. I suppose for this particular code release, there's no difference of practical value, but in general it's still going in the wrong direction.
It's not so simple. I approached the FBI with a proposal to use the military's already proven laser guidance and tracking systems to detect and rapidly respond to these threats. They apparently filed it under "kook" and never responded. The FBI is not interested in actually solving these cases. They're interested in finding someone to make an example out of and hopes that'll provide enough deterrence.
It won't.
Merely punctuational errorification:
They should have synergized their market paradigms more to create a more linguistically diverse user experience. It's only gonna get worse though... once Beta consumes the site, all that'll be left is the outward appearance of a badly edited blog.with comments enabled.
Someone else mentioned that Comcast has to follow net neutrality rules for a few years regardless of court rulings. It's getting full speed to AWS during Primetime for me (single data point, but people keep saying it's an issue during prime time).
There's been much discussion lately about how to prove whether Comcast is throttling Netflix, or if Netflix is simply vastly over capacity and throttling everyone.
Netflix using and depending on AWS is quite the opposite of their claims lately (toward the end of 2013), that they have a separate distributed network and offer to put netflix servers on-premesis with ISPs (as long as the ISP drops peering charges).
Given that Amazon has enough bandwidth to cover them, and given that Amazon isn't being throttled (at least by Comcast), then it appears pretty definitive that Netflix simply isn't increasing its AWS scaling as demand increases, despite posting record profits. Shock of shock, Netflix likes extra money rather than ensuring reasonable service for all of its paying customers.
Even if Verizon is throttling it any, Netflix is probably throttling it considerably harder based on recent reports and local tests.
Also, if the submitter is paying for FiOS and only getting 12mbit max... A( I'd better hope that's on the 15/5 plan, B( dear god, why is that as expensive as Comcast Blast! and only 15/5? Comcast is in the process of making the same tier 105/12 (currently 50/10). (I got 60mbit on all of the 'net neutrality' tests linked.)
Not at all. Traditions are long-standing things. If they're interrupted for awhile and then brought back, that's part of it's history, not to delineate to say "Oh, well, that was one tradition, and this is another". It's still the same tradition, it's just been resurrected.
Yeah, looks like the currency market is still in beta.
It's a 118 year old tradition that happens to have copied the name from a 2790 year old tradition that ceased to exist about 1600 years ago. The ancient olympics have been gone 16 times longer than the modern olympics have been going. It's a tradition. It's just a bit of a stretch to say it's a 4000 year old tradition.
It started in 776 BC. 776 + 2014 = 2790
And why is it that you are owed free content?
I suppose a 4000 year old tradition of having an open and international series of games to bring about peace and cultural tolerance/friendship might confuse some people into thinking that as a global event, the ability to view and participate in them would be something not controlled by a single group of greedy profit-oriented people who don't care to hear the clamours of said participants. Sorta like Slashdot beta....
We can use the blackholes generated by the super sized collider to wipe out beta once and for all.
No need. It's already approaching implosion... site traffic has been cut by a third.
Also, has someone volunteered to put up a slashcott update site (maybe with statistics on how well/poorly the site is doing during the blockade?)
Yup. falling like a rock.
I wonder if we'll have to use emergency generators and radio receivers to recover from Dicepocalypse...
This is an emergency public service announcement... a zombie infection has broken out and it eats the brains of those affected. So far, only about two dozen people, all middle and senior managers of content aggregation websites, have been infected. If you see one of these husks, contact authorities immediately and do not approach them... This is an emergency...
Anyone else notice that management's solution to the great slashdot uprising is to create dummy accounts and mass downmod everyone? Yeah. Like it just ended yesterday evening.
Slashdot Managers: Fuck you. You've lost another user. After this week, I'm done. Game over. Goodbye. Hope your Web 2.0 beta mcbullshit was worth it.
If you're not careful, you're going to catch something.
