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posted by n1 on Sunday September 28 2014, @11:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the stress-free-life-#amazonwishlist dept.

Amazon's aggressively updating their wishlist feature to allow customers to add items from other online shopping sites, or even by just uploading a photograph. "Last year, one in three Amazon customers worldwide wished," Amazon explains in a press release, noting that 50 new items are added every second. Now customers can even link their Twitter account to their Amazon wish list to request things with a hashtag.

One blogger suggests someone might then jokingly tweet "#AmazonWishList" about some ridiculous product, only to discover that it's now actually being added to their wishlist.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @12:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @12:10AM (#99402)

    #IWishThatDebianWasNotInfectedWithSystemd

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @02:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @02:42AM (#99437)
      #SickOfSystemDPropoganda
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @11:45AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @11:45AM (#99535)

        Lots of Debian users are sick of their their favorite distro being destroyed by systemd. Some of these people have been using Debian since before you were even born! They have every right to be upset, and every right to be vocal about what's happening to Debian. If them being vocal about it prevents Debian from turning into a killed project like GNOME or Firefox, then more power to them!

    • (Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Monday September 29 2014, @09:11AM

      by zafiro17 (234) on Monday September 29 2014, @09:11AM (#99512) Homepage

      I wish you knew how to install and run FreeBSD, Slackware, and/or Gentoo. There are alternatives, you know. I mean, other than whining.

      If you haven't given FreeBSD a whirl, now's your chance. Install PC-BSD to help with the learning curve. You'll find out it's more similar to Linux than you'd guessed, and where it differs it's usually better (exception: hardware support isn't as good).

      --
      Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @11:49AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @11:49AM (#99536)

        Long-time Debian users shouldn't have to switch distros just because systemd is crap. That's stupid. Debian has worked for for many years without systemd. The real solution is for Debian to not include systemd, ever, in any form.

      • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday September 29 2014, @11:57AM

        by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 29 2014, @11:57AM (#99540)

        You'll find out it's more similar to Linux than you'd guessed

        Actually quite a bit less. For obvious reasons I started a big project last Friday to see what it would take to convert. I have substantial docs that might turn into a very interesting post along the lines of "20 yr linux user (no exaggeration, downloaded SLS floppy images from a BBS in fall of 94, and using some form of linux continuously since) tries FreeBSD 10.0" but a short summary from a high level is I'm surprised how un-unified freebsd is compared to Debian.

        There's at least 3 upgrade/update systems:

        1) Wait, what, your own docs suggest wiping the drive and reinstalling to upgrade, what? Although there's some hacky thing that tries to upgrade the core OS? WTF you install Debian once and then upgrade forever, for like years. Until you switch architecture from i386 to amd64 or whatever.

        2) pkg. Pretty much where you type "apt-get" in debian you type "pkg" on freebsd. But not everything is in pkg (although a lot is) and there is a lot in ports, bringing us to

        3) ports. Something like gentoo for freebsd. Or imagine debian distributing just the patch files for a package and you download the source and compile and install yourself... by hand, manually, on each machine, believe it or not. I have not adventured into ports and don't look forward to writing puppet scripts to handle it, although I'm sure others have figured out solutions I haven't researched yet.

        There are other issues. I found getting nvidia drivers on X to work was weird compared to linux but easy. Much like linux, sounds just works. Nothing like pulseaudio screwing it up. (see above paragraph) "all" configuration being in /etc/rc.conf or whatever feels really weird and I need an automation / scripting solution (probably I'll end up with a lot of little parts in a directory and then cat * > /etc/rc.conf to assemble them. I put "all" configuration in quotes because most of my time is being spent configuring other files anyway so why are some config options hoarded into one beast of an unmanageable unautomatable file and others aren't? Freebsd seems to like rebooting much like Windows or unlike linux, I severely wedged mouse discovery when bringing up X and had to reboot. If something like the "Debian Policy" document exists for freebsd I haven't found it, and admins really need access to that to understand their own systems. How kernel modules are loaded is totally bizarre in freebsd, like WTF are you thinking, can't you just put a list of names in "/etc/modules" linux style? Why does every service need two ways to start, one for the next reboot (usually hand editing /etc/rc.conf) and another starting by hand right after install (service sshd start or whatever it was, I don't have my notes in front of me) or rephrased if I installed ntp I wanna run ntp so why do I have to manually start it after installing it and edit automatic starting, its just conceptually weird. Where's your freebsd volume manager, like LVM on linux, or where is it in your installer, I always install bare metal on linux using LVM as a shim to make drive upgrades/transfers painless, just create a PV on the new drive, add the new drive to the old vg and then remove the old drive from the old vg and don't forget to install your boot loader on the new drive and you're done, so so I think very early in the morning.

        Sometimes I felt my experiment was like a really bad "Kids react to ..." video. Normally I like novelty and greatly enjoy new experiences, but I was emitting too many "WTF" rather than "awesome".

        As a meta observation I'd be dead in this project without google. Freebsd error messages from the point of view of a dev might be great, but from the POV of a mere sysadmin or dev or non technical end user are garbage, trash, why do you guys even bother just throw up a blue screen. Via google I found out freebsd runs the nvidia closed source X11 driver in linux compatibility mode and if you haven't already enabled linux binary compatibility mode on AMD64 you get some whacked out acid burned error message about ELF type mismatch code 03 or some other pure WTF moment, which once I have the extensive education in freebsd to understand kinda makes sense, but for a noob, its WTF and pray google tells me what to do (which was enable linux binary compatibility by loading a kernel module, then things work, although of course the docs don't mention this little issue, thanks guys). An intelligent "debian-ish" way to handle this kind of problem would be 1) Document it in the docs? Just maybe? 2) modify your script to first test if the binary kernel module appears in your bsd equivalent of "lsmod" and barf out an intelligible text message explaining exactly why it doesn't work and how to fix it 3) if your package requires linux binary compat make a dependency on a package that does little other than force it on and make sure it works, why you guys make kernel modules a PITA compared to linux is an excellent meta question anyway.

        I'm not stuck and I'm not done, but I think my experience so far is pretty realistic for an experienced linux guy switching to FreeBSD at complete noob plus maybe two or so hours. Trust me, its not like switching from Debian to Ubuntu where your greatest concern is getting /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whatever entries correct or a handful of path names here and there.

  • (Score: 2) by EvilJim on Monday September 29 2014, @01:41AM

    by EvilJim (2501) on Monday September 29 2014, @01:41AM (#99425) Journal

    When will Amazon start shipping Amazonian hookers? they could do it legally in my country and some others I think.

    • (Score: 2) by davester666 on Monday September 29 2014, @05:28AM

      by davester666 (155) on Monday September 29 2014, @05:28AM (#99472)

      No, Amazon is more into sales, not rentals. Now Netflix should be all over doing this. You can select have one two or three out at a time, you can have them as long as you want and return them as you are finished with them.

      They have the whole system down, just change a few words on the web site and done!

      • (Score: 2) by EvilJim on Monday September 29 2014, @08:50PM

        by EvilJim (2501) on Monday September 29 2014, @08:50PM (#99763) Journal

        That is brilliant, now we've just got to organise a boycott and go create our own netflix... maybe call it 'SoylentWomen' or something.

  • (Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Monday September 29 2014, @09:09AM

    by zafiro17 (234) on Monday September 29 2014, @09:09AM (#99510) Homepage

    This truly represents the pinnacle of human existence and the culmination of all that scientists and researchers have worked so hard for, for so long.

    I'm glad I lived to see this glorious age in human existence.

    --
    Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey
  • (Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Monday September 29 2014, @11:12AM

    by PizzaRollPlinkett (4512) on Monday September 29 2014, @11:12AM (#99528)

    How much longer before there's nowhere to go where you're not a "consumer" and everything you do is buying and selling? Amazon wants to put buttons in your home to buy things. Social media is becoming a big shopping network. I was in an eye doctor's waiting room recently and a TV was blasting out ads to get treatments for medical conditions you might not have known you had. Can we have one simple moment when we're human beings instead of dehumanized consumers buying things and wanting them?

    I don't have a Star Wars analogy for this (maybe that's why I like Star Wars?), but Star Wars philosophy is based on Buddhism. Buddhism has this thing called "dukkha" and I encourage you to find out what that is if you don't know. It's like the entire Western world has embraced dukkha as its highest purpose.

    --
    (E-mail me if you want a pizza roll!)