Posts by Daggerchild

Systemd is extremely useful!

I think everyone is completely misunderstanding how useful systemd is.

Everyone who doesn't want to look to the past, and who believe in following leaders with strong personalities and innovative legacy-discarding ideas, can all band together and sail off to create a new future.

Leaving everyone who actually gives a sh*t about good engineering in peace, while their ship catches fire, runs aground, and establishes some kind of Lord of the Flies cannibal tribe.

Put systemd in your interview questions for new hires, and leave the true-believers free to go innovate someone else into the ground.

Re: But did it do any good?

Oh I dunno - the cable monopolies seem to be getting value for money now :)

Re: Should I trust a field or field length supplied by an outside source?

Content-Length: 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000........

See also, Content-Encoding: gzip; dd if=/dev/zero | gzip -9c -

Re: What about security?

I would have thought that if you're paying Google to do exactly that, you'd be very annoyed if they didn't.

I wouldn't mind a Google Search page for our corporate Intranet. All I can usually find on any subject are a million mentions.

You make it sound like it's a measured and considered response, instead of simply being a huge bonfire of anything Obama has ever touched.

It's very difficult to blame Obama through all the heat and flames, but I can't help but admire your continued determination to do so.

Re: I've seen...

"Not because of that, that's a strawman argument. It's because a "research" created for monetary reasons (=You are getting paid to prove a point, no matter how much lying is needed) is always bad stuff"

But... isn't saying the researchers are paid to lie, while also being unable to show that anything produced here *has* been a lie, an evidenceless construction, aka a strawman argument?

Out of interest, how many years need to pass after a Google donation to a public science body, before researchers sponsored by that body aren't considered to be 'bad stuff'? And by your own measure, is the sponsored report in this article telling the truth?

Re: Utility vs Service

"they all should care about the class of message contained in those bits" - ... eh? Why?

The lorry analogy breaks down if Netflix are already paying per byte to push their traffic into the Internet. The costs are already perfectly and inescapably proportional to the 'wear on the roads'. Is someone saying they aren't?

QoS might be worth discussing, but only for live video/audio, as nothing else needs it (including Netflix), but nobody's really talking about that (although perhaps they should). That doesn't leave much else on the table.

I thought the net neutrality debate was fairly straightforward. It's this: http://www.three.co.uk/go-binge/shows

Yes, you have other streaming providers, but if you use them, we'll bill you a feckton. Your decision. Feel free to compete for customers who get electroshock if they try and leave us.

Re: Anything we should steal ?

From what I remember about it, its APIs had versioning built into the interfaces. It was designed for live-upgrade.

The components would fall back to the latest version each understood, and as the opportunity arose they would fall-forward to newer versions. I think it's one of those things that is theoretically a good idea, until you start involving humans.

I mentally filed all this under the image of a kitten tangled in string.

Re: They came for the journalists, but I was not a journalist...

It's a larger problem than Google - the system *used* to require cleared and maintained paths to deliver data between places, as collecting, cleaning and distributing information was too costly and time consuming for an individual. Groups would band together to push through together.

Now, any old hamster can stick up a shiny website and be just as accessible as any other data source, including the professionally grown ones. The entire system has switched bottleneck from pushing data out, to pulling viewers in. The giants are now straws in hayfield. The zeitgeist is free, and flowing downhill..

Google is probably just after a clean fact/event broadcast system - that would match their mentality. Anything more complex is just a muckspreader. I have no idea how journalists will survive in a world where bots, fakes and frauds massively outnumber them and nobody wants to pay anything for their products.

Re: It's fairly safe to say..

"Elites motive is to screw the people."

HAH! Zoom out a bit. The US *people's* motive is to screw the people. Trump voters want immigrants blocked, muslims banned, illegals thrown out, refugees ignored, NATO extorted, coal resurrected etc. They want other people to suffer in their stead. These aren't the elites - this is the base. This runs from bottom to top, and is now on full display.

The drive to poop on anyone they can subjugate has been in America's DNA since well before its independence. The whole of the US is now a snake eating its own tail, pooping in its own belly, and becoming enraged at its meal's blatant attempt to poison it.

It's ridiculous that it's now gotten so bad now that it's actually oozing out of the head. Within a few years America is going to rip its own tail off. Buy shares in all of those private US for-profit jails, now. There's money in the losing side's slavery fully legal, enforced, unpaid, manual labour.

I have a fiver on the non-gun-owners being the losers. Them educated 'elites'.

Re: Google want personal information the way a junkie wants heroin.

That's too simple a take - Google are absolutely addicted to finding things out, but they're not like Facebook who deliberately reverse engineer your social circle. They pretty obviously have a different core drive: Shiny Problems.

e.g. If I lie to Google, they believe me. They don't want *me*. They want to know what I *want*.

Re: Deep Mind keeps the learning though?

"So back to you."

Er, okay, as requested, I invoke Godwin's-law-level of ridicule. On the one hand, lots of dead people, on the other hand... anonymised retina scans. Why did you do that?

"you could delete the source information (as you've clearly stated they now have the tool) and you can also prosecute everyone involved and fine the hell out of the companies involved."

Er, who said they weren't deleting the source information? And prosecute for what? Deepmind just got investigated to death, and weren't being evil. But people are angry that the facts aren't backing up their assumptions about Google cackling and rolling in cash made from their stolen data. People want blood!

Re: It's sad

Ooh, that's given me how-to-be-an-evil-megacorp ideas.

No, they didn't give *anyone* orders to damage their competitors. They are entirely and provably innocent of that charge!

They just reviewed the incompetence complaints filed against each of their contractors, and then *repeatedly* sent out a select few of them to certain points to dig up and visually inspect cables.

MWUhahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Re: Strange....

"Deepmind is not a chess player"

Hah! Wrong because...*googles*...... goddamnit..

#include <std/quotes/futurama/technically-correct.txt>

It's the latest ransomware. If this gets installed on your computer it will save all of your important data in an impenetrable format, making it almost impossible to get it out.

I believe in some cases you even have to pay a subscription just to retain access to your data.

Re: "We disagree with the European Commission's argument"

I'll still be waiting for the practical logic behind the decision. It will have an impact on integrated data analysis. i.e. Big Data.

If you must outsource part of an internal decision, to competitors, or integrate their backends into your backend, that's going to get real messy real fast.

When you ask a droid in a scifi movie to answer a question, or acquire something, or get a job done, there's a hell of a lot of potentially competing data sources and suppliers that want that droid's opinion to be theirs.

On the flipside, UK is leaving the EU soon, so Google may not have far to evacuate.

The Irony Curtain

Do you know what Putin could do now to *really* *REALLY* piss off the West? Go straight!

The crown of Freedom and Justice is rolling around the floor right now as Trump stuffs his face in the trough and May shrieks from behind her barred door.

If I remember my history lessons correctly, proper law and order was only established after the elites started getting annoyed at the murders/corruption etc mucking up their neat empires, and began forcing it down from on high.

Putin could do that if he wanted to, he has the power and the personality. To steal the West's glorious name, their reputation - that would so horribly fitting right now.

With Great Power YadaYadaYada...

I would like to propose an addendum to the law. If Government is found to be misusing this power, the Prime Minister must donate a pint of blood within the week for each occurrence.

Should we run out of Prime Minister, the requirement descends down the chain of command towards the individual who made the decision.

Re: Anywhere? Really?

I'm guessing it's a bit like saying that when you neglect someone to death, the exact domino sequence of randomly accumulated faults involved in finally overloaded the living system, will 'never have been seen before'.