Last month, Congress voted to repeal FCC rules that would prevent internet service providers from selling your personal web browsing and app usage data. It was a decision that's unpopular across the country, regardless of party affiliation. If the politicians that voted in favor of the reversal thought no one would notice, there are some big ass signs in their districts that say otherwise.
The internet activists at the non-profit Fight for the Future have crowdfunded four billboards, so far, that shame the members of congress that voted for the repeal. The lawmakers that have the honor of being called out will now have to see their face along the highway when they return home. Those lucky few are Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Dean Heller (R-NV), John Rutherford (R-FL) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ). These four lawmakers accepted a combined $196,905 in campaign contributions from the telecom industry in the last election cycle. Blackburn, in particular, has been a longtime enemy of net neutrality. Just last year, she brought up SOPA and tried to frame it as an initiative that would have increased cybersecurity.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by kaszz on Sunday May 07 2017, @11:38PM
There are overhead with the microkernel and HURD approach. But given that CPUs don't seem to get any faster anytime soon. But they do get more cores and it becomes easier with time to interconnect many CPUs into clusters. It seems it makes sense to exploit just that. The same way assembler made sense for 8-bit 1 MHz while C is a better choice for more powerful computers. With a few megabytes of RAM and fast storage, multi-user-process OS makes sense. And so on. I think the time is right for a microkernel. Another factor is the sheer complexity of kernels and software is a liability and then there's the always-up demand.
One thing I like with HURD is that it's possible for each user to create their own filesystem not seen by others and not needing root.