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Well, I have to say, definitively and categorically, that I absolutely do not have a bloody clue what they're going on about.
 <-- This is me being happy that I never got involved in open-source politics.
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Looks like it's a 2-factor problem.
The first being that ZFS has parts that are not 'open source', and that it's Oracle/Larry Ellison that could claim ownership, which sounds like the biggy issue.
Second is that it slightly breaks the OSI layer model, which would break the beliefs of softies that layering is well defined absolute and trustworthy. ZFS doesn't have that trust (as I understand it..)
In reality the layering is more of an engineering issue - the need for defense in depth, with ZFS spanning the layers and reporting errors.
Saw a video recently that highlighted the issue "Zebras All the Way Down : The engineering challenges of the data path" - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE&feature=youtu.be some good points once you get past the presenters animation.. (linked from another CP news article to https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-clouds-will-always-eventually-fail/)
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Researchers find that 17 of 140 major online services are vulnerable to SIM swapping attacks. I put a lot of work into my SIMs, I don't want someone else's. Neeshga! Neeshga!
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[yo mamma]
I told you you should stick with Tycoon games, and avoid the SIMs, but you never listen!
[/yo mamma]
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Specifically, no enterprise versions of Windows will be automatically updated, meaning the Blocker Toolkit is just needed if you run Home and Pro on your enterprise network, and if they are not joined to a Domain. Now we just need to talk to them about the other automatic updates
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This will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
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Despite ranking at the top of respondents' concerns, organizations still show gaps in acting on cybersecurity. "Everybody's talking at me, can't hear a word they're saying"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Everybody's talking at me, can't hear a word they're saying"
And you especially don't listen to your mother! 
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Have you seen all those "Teach Your Kids to Code" books? They're mostly drivel with pictures.
This writer agrees (Slate.com via GetPocket - firefox news)
I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neither Should You.[^]
from article: The description in one popular book says starting coding early is “essential to prepare kids for the future.” This gives the impression that not teaching kids to code is somehow equivalent to not teaching them to read.
That is, of course, ridiculous. Coding is not the new literacy. While most parents are literate and know to read to their kids, most are not programmers and have no idea what kind of skills a programmer needs. Coding books for kids present coding as a set of problems with “correct” solutions. And if your children can just master the syntax, they’ll be able to make things quickly and easily. But that is not the way programming works. Programming is messy. Programming is a mix of creativity and determination. Being a developer is about more than syntax...
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When developers contribute, collaborate, or obtain open-source code, they look at how the code will help bolster their other projects as well as ensure they are complying with any open-source licenses. "A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."
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How very surprising that the only mention of a genuinely ethical matter in the entire article comes near the end:Quote: other ethical issues in the open-source community include using code for profitable reasons without contributing in return
And then they incorrectly state that that is an "other" ethical matter.
"Isms" aren't ethical matters; they're just a ridiculously large excess of personal preference and belief in one's own perfection. They're stupid and wrong, but they ain't ethics.
And stuff that happens behind the closed doors of a software house or whatever does not make their software unethical.
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On January 9, 2007, then Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off the device for the first time at the MacWorld Conference & Expo. The traditional gift is lace, so maybe buy your phone a doily to sit on when you're not using it?
Or modern tradition is fur, so a nice shaggy case?
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True, but there's been better things.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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There has been tons of innovation, and hundreds of great new inventions -- but none that interest the fanbois press, obviously.
Something saves hundreds of lives? Pfft! It's not an iphone!
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Somehow, I don't think Android Press should be described as a fanbois site (at least not for the iPhone).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The point is that there have been massive computer-tech advancements in multiple fields (particularly medical, which really puts "handys" in their place on the importance scale), and they're whining that there hasn't been another revolution in portable phones?
If nothing but portable phones matter, then yes, we're in a very narrow fanbois territory.
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But he's only saying there's been no innovation in phones, not that there's been no innovation. "Fanbois" is irrelevant.
Kevin
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And what I'm saying is that phones are pretty much irrelevant, compared with all the amazing developments that are actually good for society, save lives, and improve the standards of life of countless people, so excluding (or showing no awareness of) the good stuff is borderline idiotic.
I could have just said "This idiot should get a life", but I decided not to be so insulting.
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So what? He just happens to be talking about phones. It doesn't mean that other things aren't important. But smartphones have also added value too. I think you're just being a contrarian for the sake of it.
Kevin
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When I hear claims about Apple pioneering anything I think "Pioneering in what sense?", as if anyone followed in their footsteps Apple would in all likelihood sue them for everything they had.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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They created the current paradigm in the mobile industry. So pioneered in that sense.
As is almost always the case the tech innovation is not original to them but they put it all together in a sufficiently usable format that caused everyone else to follow suit.
Kevin
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I think you have a good point there - Apple probably help to show that a particular technology can make money and others then follow in the technology or are at least challenged to improve.
I think Android was around at the same time as the iPhone, except the early Android releases were no way as decent as UI iOs exposed. So Android had to catch up and it has done a really good job of now having a decent UI.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Typically HP sells printers for super cheap and then charges exorbitant prices for the required ink, leaving consumers paying hundreds a year if they want to keep this printer printing well. Because we're a paperless society now
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You should print some posters declaring a paperless society.
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Now this is an ethical matter!
So I'm with Joe. If you want someone to hand out flyers, I'm your man.
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