Posts by diodesign 3261 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2011
Good question. It's the status quo for the stated reasons: the courts have decided in Oracle's favor (which is why it's at the Supremes now, brought here by Google) and it's the position of the US government.
BTW, personally speaking, I'm not saying the status quo is right. It's just what it is.
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Yes, that's precisely the point; it's for people who want to manage Arm stuff from their vCenter environment, or who want to try out VMware's SmartNIC stuff via VCF.
Or if you're that much of an ESXi fan, as a standalone host.
I've tried to make this more crystal clear in the article.
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True - and there are other Arm hypervisors out there, no doubt - but the thing is, ESXi-Arm can be controlled from vCenter so it should (in theory) just drop right into your VMware environment that controls the rest of your IT, making management feel perhaps straightforward and natural.
Which might be a bit easier than wrangling VxWorks deployments (which I imagine are aimed at individual machines, whereas ESXi is more about automatically wrangling fleets of stuff at once).
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Kaspersky says it doesn't know: "Unfortunately, we were not able to determine the exact infection vector that allowed the attackers to overwrite the original UEFI firmware."
So it could have been injected at the factory, in transit, by a rogue insider, by some other admin-level malware, etc.
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Bear in mind the very next paragraph clarifies the relationship:
"RHEL is the main commercial release, and CentOS a community-built release based on RHEL, in effect a non-commercial version."
If you think you've spotted something wrong in an article, don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com and we'll take a look.
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We're referring to LEDs v bulbs, smart thermostats v unconnected gear, etc, not nuclear power.
I'd say most of us at El Reg are in favor of nuclear power, when done right and all above board. It is a global tragedy that we're still reliant on coal and other fossil fuels for electricity IMHO.
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OK, similar's not the right word -- I've tweaked the piece. The article glossed over the details (I've added a few in) but Drummond's professionalism was called into question WRT relationships with women subordinate to him in the org chart.
From Blakey's blog post...
"In October of 2008, still living together, David and I attended a dinner in Palo Alto with other Google employees, many from the legal department. During dinner, our babysitter called to say our son was sick so I went home and David said he would be right behind me. Several hours later that same evening, I received a call from Chris Chin, the Associate General Counsel and a friend, who told me that David had taken two other women who worked for him in the legal department to San Francisco.
"I didn’t understand. Our son was very sick and I panicked so I called him several times but he didn’t answer his phone. Finally, I sent him a text message asking him when we could expect him home. He responded, 'Don’t expect me back. I’m never coming back.' And he didn’t."
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It's been a bit of a chicken and egg scenario. Forums started quietly and we decided not to publicize them too much, which meant they stayed quiet, so we didn't publicize them too much, which meant..
There might be a rejig. Fewer sub-sections to focus everyone in one place. More showing on the front page. We'll see. Right now, it's mostly tech support for accounts and commenting.
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Oracle has a sizable ad analytics platform FWIW.
https://www.oracle.com/data-cloud/solutions.html
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Linus owns the trademark and has owned it for many years.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/linux-mark/
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In the words of Apple, "battery life varies by use." ie: here's a number, maybe it's what you'll experience.
In short, according to Apple, the Watch Series 6 has an 18-hour battery life; the 8th-gen iPad has an "all-day" battery life; and the iPad Air has an "all-day" battery life.
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Yes, that was the point. It was deliberately loosely defined. I didn't want it to be something like: "Backups are good for your business. Discuss." That's a bit dead end.
I wanted to spark an argument over what exactly is AI, whether it has a place in business, and whether it's previous software routines with better PR.
This is El Reg, not Cambridge.
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I've fixed those minor issues -- software has little bugs, articles have slightly wonky grammar from time to time. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you want to report things like this.
Also on the point of facial recognition being simple -- the end result is, yes. It mostly works in a lot of production systems (hi, China). The process inside isn't simple.
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By the sounds of it, it's left there on the Moon for NASA to deal with as it needs. From the announcement:
"...conduct an 'in-place' transfer of ownership of the lunar regolith or rocks to NASA. After ownership transfer, the collected material becomes the sole property of NASA for our use."
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The headline picks out the difference between the machines. FWIW the article originally said the Series S had 6GB of RAM -- it's 10GB and the difference is 6. So the headline was right, the article was wrong. It's now fixed.
Also, some people are getting the all-digital Xbox Series S teased this week confused with the Xbox One S from last year. The specs in the article are defo for the all-digital Series S coming out this November.
Don't forget to report any errors to corrections@theregister.com - ta.
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Well, out of the top 10 trending news topics on Facebook, pretty much 7-10 are right-wing outlets, like Fox News, in the US, typically.
"Consistently, Roose found, conservative pages were beating out liberals’ in making it into the day’s top 10 Facebook posts with links in the United States, based on engagement, like the number of reactions, comments, and shares the posts receive."
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No doubt there's gear on site. Where exactly it goes off-premises, we're relying on the tender document's vague wording -- what do you make of it?
I've tweaked the article to reflect the fact the tender document leans more toward wanting a system than can perform analysis and predictions in the cloud by integrating with physical, on-location SCADA systems.
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"he reached for the knife that he has admitted that he had in his possession"
No, the police said he admitted he had a knife and one was retrieved from his car -- you're just retelling the post-shooting police spin. Him reaching for a weapon is an assumption. He was visibly unarmed and beaten up while trying to go his car. Him resisting arrest is not good, and trying to evade the cops made it worse. The whole situation is not good.
Shooting him seven times was the cops giving up and executing him. They didn't even know what he was wanted for. That's why people are a bit miffed.
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Let's put this stupidity to bed. Medical examiners have ruled it was homicide, and he died from "cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression." Yeah, he had drugs in his system, and was in a bad way: he tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. So, perhaps the last thing he needed was a knee on his neck.
By your logic, terminal cancer patients are fair game to the police -- they're just dead people walking, huh?
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I think you're overlooking the fact people of color are targeted by police disproportionately to the population mix, and that Blake's shooting was taken as another potential example of this. It's not clear the officers arresting him knew exactly what he was wanted for. It's not great he resisted arrest. I don't think shooting him 7 times was the answer.
And yes, what happened to Miller was terrible.
I guess what I and others find distasteful here is the whiff of outrage at people daring to protest or get upset at inequality, injustice, and prioritization of policing over education, community, and health. It's as if you want them to go back to their lower-paid jobs in their lower-valued homes, keep quiet, and stay out of the way.
Presumably so that you can take to the streets to protest against the killing of people like Miller.
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"a protest (riot of thugs)" ... "Trump had to send federal agents in to cities because the local force wasnt dealing with the issue"
Please stop watching Fox News. You're kinda forgetting that a lot, or most of, the violence on the streets was escalated or instigated by police intolerant of those with the opinion that the police aren't doing a great job.
Which is sorta like the definition of a police state.
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