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In my mind the principal reason for the current hierarchy is read/write usage. With /etc and /usr it is possible after installation and configuration to set one or both as Read Only. With /var and /home you have the directories that should be Read/Write on a running system. This allows you to mount each of those directories on a different partition with different settings or even different filesystems depending on how you want to optimize/secure your application.

Now admittedly actually doing this is pretty rare in these days, but I still like having the option. I believe he does address this talking about "union mounts" and "overlay filesystems". I'm really not too familiar with either or how production ready they are, but it may address my concerns.

A web interface is already a reality.[1] Work great with Chrome or Chromium. Not a full featured office, but in general very nice. [1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/office/ndjpnladcal...

For anyone interested, a book was written on this about 15 years ago by a reporter from "Janes Defense Weekly". "The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology". Not as tin-hat as you might think, mostly a story of a lot of dead ends while trying to research some DARPA dark projects.

I really would say your just restating the OP conclusion from the point of the of the purchaser instead of from the point of view of the software developer.

An executive at an Enterprise would state their search for some piece of software as: I have such and such problem. I wish someone would make a magic wand and fix it for me(how hard can it be anyway).

To which some software developer will reply. Hey we make magic wands. We make incredible magic wands. Let's schedule some time to show them to you. And the fact that the people who have to use it are not involved makes a huge difference in quality.

You give Word, Excel and Jira as examples of Enterprise Software. If these are examples of Enterprise Software they are by far the best examples of such Software.

Enterprise Software that currently makes my life miserable on a daily basis would be products like Remedy for workflows and approvals, Serena and Harvest for Change Management, WebSphere Middleware, CyberArk for secrets management, and WebMethods for an Enterprise Service Bus. All of these have horrible documentation, are extremely expensive, and most have superior open source equivalents.

The only reason that companies like this can still stay in business is because there are executives who still believe in magic wands and then believe sales people when they say they have them for sale.

I had looked into doing something similar around 10 years ago. A couple of things I found useful that aren't mentioned:

Find a program that can measure the propagation of EM waves(for a WISP that's normally microwaves) Quite a few are listed at http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/qsl-review-propagation-sof...

I really liked the book Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks[1] if you're completely new to large scale wireless.

[1] http://www.ciscopress.com/store/deploying-license-free-wirel...

Think of defining an empty range.

    a) 1 <= x < 1
    c) 1 <= x <= 0 

c seems quite a bit more confusing than a.

Just coming out of a situation like this there are a few thing that are important to take note of on both sides.

First even having a pretty good job in not enough to keep you above the poverty level. I worked in a trade job and was paid fairly well. In our case, though with a family of 5 you would need to make about $13.50 an hour and never miss a day of work for any reason to keep above the poverty level. We just weren't making it and were on food stamps for about a year.

On the other hand our situation was very much a life decision. We had two preschool age children and my wife preferred not to go to work. In the end I decided I just had to get a better job. I went back to school(which meant I got even more government money) and was eventually able to double my salary.

I don't know if I have any point other than that there is no black and white. It is a nuanced situation and we should not dehumanize either side.

I would just like to point out that, for all the talk of routers being vunerable, routers in general use busybox, which in turn uses ash shell as the default shell. Most routers will not be vunerable unless bash was explicitly installed.

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=52937

As an answer to the question on entanglement, the FAQ posted above had this to say:

In contrast, Bell’s Theorem can be formulated without even speaking about hidden variable theories: the theorem states that some predictions of QM, well confirmed by several experiments, can not be explained by any local theory. And BM is nonlocal, as well as QM is. In fact BM inspired Bell to investigate non-locality, finally leading himto discover his famous inequalities. Bell was one of the most prominent proponents of BM and wrote many articles explaining it in great detail.

Also here's a wikipedia article that talks about Bohmian Mechanics and entanglement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory#...

https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI The Cousera couse above is a really good. Its centered mostly around Java, but the basic principles, of course, can be used in any programming language.

Slightly related. This was one of my favorite assignments from my algorithms class on coursera. We implemented part of bzip compression and decompression. http://coursera.cs.princeton.edu/algs4/assignments/burrows.h...

Here are the Safe documents if anyone is interested. http://ycombinator.com/safe/

Jolla is based on what was left of Nokia's Maemo/Meego.

Herb Sutter wrote a good article on this a few years ago. It was written in 2005 and centered mostly on multi-threading and parallel programming, but definitely worth a read. http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm

The actual Tor Security advisory. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2013-Aug...

After doing a quick google search of zuvikomx I'm pretty sure the company's located in Mexico City, Mexico.

Do you have an example of how aliasing could break a script?

Did you read the article?

I always wished we could use SSL the way we use phisycal keys. They are a very good example encapsulization and easy user interface. When you use the key for your house, you look for a certian color or shape of the key. Most users don't know or care how the lock works. Why can't SSL be this way. Instead of having the end user chose a password have the browser automaticaly generate a public/private pair. For the user interface make a key with a random or user generated design. When the user goes to the website again present the user with a list of their keys and have them chose the correct one.

Those are all important things...and they should be publish on the internet as well. The only way to bring prices in healthcare down is to allow the customers to be able to compare price and quality. When my wife was pregnant our number one priorty was to find a doctor with a low C-section rate and I was incredibly frustrated to find no public means of finding this out. If patients are given the tools to research price an quality, I believe it will have a huge impact on the healthcare system.