Posts by Doctor Syntax 40471 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
It's some guy's personal project. The Linux world is full of them. It makes it a source of innovation which puzzles the Windows diehards mightily but wouldn't be an ideal basis. We went through this here a few days ago. There are several EU-based distros which are well-enough established but my personal choice would be Devuan (Belgian) from top to bottom as it removes dependence on systemd which would be too close to Microsoft when distancing the EU from it is a concern.
Which European flavour of Linux?
What's needed is for the various EU vendors to stop issuing statements and get down to producing and promoting an EU-based stack from server to desktop. All the bits are there but as long as their vendors are each doing their individual thing Microsoft can pick them off one at a time.
How often are these "stolen credentials" an email address and password pair? Email addresses are crap user IDs for anything other than the email service they were intended for. You wouldn't want a user giving away their password every time they communicate with someone so why let them give away their User ID?
"Brexit has been immensely useful in removing access to supranational courts from the population"
Agreed, I'm sure it was the main reason, but useful to whom?
The advantage of a supranational court is that, if in place, it provides a layer of adult supervision to a government whose own legislation is to the disadvantage of the population.
If a government wishes to remove that does it not lead to a suspicion of its motives?
"One assumes not"
One assumes incorrectly.
"these hurdles should be cleared and processes aligned so there is not."
Tenure of land can go back a long way. What if the alignment you seek were to affect your legal tenure and it were to cost you a few k in legal fees to sort out? Would you be so keen then? You think it wouldn't affect you? How would you know that? Or should everything just be aligned with the way it is where you live?
"Sure, Microsoft wasn't charging for Windows 10."
This is somewhat misleading. As a preloaded OS the customer paid for it. The free upgrade from the W8 fiasco it was a PR necessity. The free upgrade from W10 to 11 for recent purchases was probably a legal necessity to avoid class actions but the H/W limitation avoided making that free for all. It's simply become a purchase plus milk-the user-entity, not one or the other.
For those who never venture outside the M25 it's the best service station on the network so if I'm heading further north it's the first stop. It's also a village apparently high up in the fells in the Lake District. (It's actually not that high up but it's exposed and the M6 climbs up to it from little more than sea level via the Lune gorge.) For those who never venture outside the Cotswolds, sorry, Gloucester is only the second best; it's Tebay's younger brother.
It would need to be automated to a degree of safety that the driver is never required to take over at short notice because the driver will be doing something distracting of very probably asleep.
The usual condition that the system may require the human driver to take over in an emergency is a clear indication that at present, at least, the human driver is regarded as the better driver in a difficult situation.
For a long journey it is asking too much of the driver not to have to be in control but still maintain full alertness. Unless distracting themselves with something else the likeliest outcome is that most drivers would fall asleep on a long journey. That's why I suggested above that "wake me up when we're nearly there" would be a requirement.
I'm wondering if the US actually invented the idea of a codified constitution a such. If so it's odd that they came up with something that was so far from state of the art even in its own time and so hard to fix. They seem to have got themselves all Trussed up.
Write the WHERE clause and use it to run a COUNT. Does that give the number you expect? Write the UPDATE statement, start a transaction and urn it. Does it give the correct number of rows updated? If so, COMMIT, otherwise ROLLBACk and try again.
The first requirement of a DBA isn't knowing SQL, it's not understanding schemas. It's paranoia.
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