I've encountered problems with users sending to multiple recipients in the same domain from a Yahoo! account, where Qmail sends the email not just once, but N times (where N is the number of users), resulting in N^2 emails being processed by the recieving server.
I conclude from this behaviour that Qmail is fundamentally broken, and am a firm believer in Postfix (all hail the mighty Big Blue!).
Ah - that'll be a Tesco Metro - little more than a convenience store with a Tesco badge on it (IIRC, they bought a chain of 7-11 type stores a few years back).
True enough, they don't carry a large range, so I guess you were unlucky.
And I'm certainly not a Cargo Cultist - although the great white gods who arried on silvery wings with their ribbons and their bows certainly impressed me with their mastery of the Universe the last time they visited my island.:P
I just don't find the idea that there's mass that we can't see (or, more precisely, that doesn't interact with the observable universe other than gravitationally) to be outlandish.
Both MOND and 'invisible mass' are unattractive, but to posit that there are things I can't see is easier for me personally than to tear up a beautifully simple equation that holds good for a huge range of scales.
I was trained as a mathematician, not a physicist, so my aesthetic sense tends to militate against introducing complexity without good reason.
Read the link, and (at least to me), MOND ~= epicycles.
Postulating a more complex equation for gravity, as opposed to keeping things simple and looking for a physical reason for the observations not fitting the naive expectations of the observer, seems slightly Ptolemaic.
I certainly wouldn't call MOND a crackpot idea - after all, Kepler's insight provided the mathematical foundation for the Newtonian 1/r^2 relation, replacing epicycles with ellipses in a beautiful simplification, but there's the rub - Kepler simplified, MOND adds complexity and would discourage the search for 'dark matter' or whatever might be the physical cause of the divergence between observation and theory.
Nice of you to bring MOND to our attention, though - it brightened up an otherwise miserable early morning in the office:P
My local Tesco stocks about 18 different ground coffees, including the Lavazza that I drink most days.
I'm sure they stock quite a few instant coffees too, but since I never drink instant, I never look.
As for tea, a good tea is as complex as a fine wine, but for some reason most of the tea drunk in the UK is of the 'builders tea' variety, taken with milk and sugar - be it PG Tips, Yorskhire or whatever, it's far from a good Orange Pekoe or a Darjeeling.
I drink my tea black, no sugar, and never use teabags.
As I pointed out when this was first discussed, (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=346907&cid=21196881), someone's going to have to install 17,000 copies of Windows on these PCs, and there's probably quite a nice little earner in it for them.
There's no absolute necessity for someone to have been bribed - a very generous discount for the licenses plus the prospect of being able to abstract a chunk of the budget for a nice big Windows installation could have been enough to influence a decision maker without baksheesh changing hands.
'Cruel and unusual', in this context, should be interpreted as 'disproportionate'.
Thus a $220,000 fine against an individual is disproportionate, but a bunch of $195,000 fines against a hugely profitable corporate entity is not necessarily so, given that part of the objective in setting the fine is to deter future behaviour of the same kind by others.
Even a $195,000,000 total fine against Comcast wuld be, in relation to income and ability to pay, proportinately far less than the $220,000 awarded against the file sharer.
Sure, Comcast shareholders might get a smaller dividend, but then at the next AGM the pension funds, etc. can pressurise the Comcast board to eliminate the offending behaviour in the future.
The file sharer, on the other hand, will likely have to declare bankruptcy and maybe lose her home.
I think 'cruel and unusual' depends heavily on who or what is being fined.
And Eric Nicoli (chairman of EMI) is probably snacking on larks tongues in aspic, while talking to the trees (possibly why he took his eye off the ball and allowed his company to infringe the copyright of Mr Fripp).
Given that Nigeria is around 50% Muslim, Baksheesh is probably the best B-word to use in this context, as it's less prejudicial than "Bribery"
It could well be that Ballmer and his friends are making a charitable gesture by donating / heavily discounting 17,000 Windows licenses - there's probably a nice little earner in it for whoever is running the project too, as 17,000 Windows installs will take a good deal of manpower / project management / consultancy fees etc.
If you ever saw the Blue Planet episode where the female Orcas are teaching their young the techniques of sea-lion hunting on a beach in Patagonia, I think you'd have little doubt that they are intelligent and socialised creatures.
The fact that this behaviour is passed down from generation to generation makes it, for me at least, qualify as a culture on the same sort of level as hunter-gatherers in human terms.
What strikes me is - why did the guy let the manager take the box from him in the first place?
If it had been me, I would have felt perfectly within my rights to put said manager on his ass the moment he tried to steal what was, by then, my property, and let the law sort it out if he objected.
The nearest we've got to Best Buy in the UK is PC World / Dixons, and I've had so many bust-ups with managers in those stores over mis-labelling, poorly placed stock, etc. that I now just don't shop there any more, else I would be risking getting done for GBH.
When you fuck off the entire population of Arab Muslins by kicking in doors, bulldozing houses, supporting your own forms of terror and lawlessness, then you will never lose perhaps, but you will never eradicate the terrorist, because too many people have empathy for the terrorist.
And when you compound the situation by supporting an aggressive rogue state in the heart of the Middle East, allowing that state carte blanche to oppress and murder civilians in territories that are illegally occupied some 40 years after a war of aggression started by that rogue state, is it any wonder that the Arab (and non-Arab) Muslim world sees you as evil?
Get out of Iraq, then sort out Israel and force them to behave like a civilised nation, and let's see if support for anti-Western ideologies collapses in the region.
Although, reading TFA, it seems that a Fortinet executive was reported to have been associated with the Burmese government, as reported in the Burmese press.
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck...
Having said that, if one reads TFA to the end, the argument that the existence of more-or-less ineffective filtering actually helped in the dissemination of information about the Burmese government repression seems reasonable - the sense of false security afforded the authorities by their possession of filtering may have provided a window of opportunity for the citizenry to get information to the world.
My objection isn't to the use of a filter for copyrighted material, rather the implication that the copyright holders should be able to band together and mandate the use of a particular filtering technology.
From the summary:
It is a big drain to a company like ours to have to deal with incompatible systems.
It might be a big drain to them, but if internet sites provide their own means of filtering (thus complying with the letter and the spirit of the law), then working with those various systems is just the cost of doing business in a free market.
The company I code for has to integrate with many CRM and WFM applications, and it's often a custom integration for each customer.
That's fine - keeps me in work, but it ups the cost to my employer.
Now if we could mandate that every customer had to use SAP, say, then I'd have relatively little to do all day and could spend even more time on/. arguing with the friends of the **AA.
Funny though - my testing (mostly on ~30MB CAD files) showed Netware 3.11 to be at least twice as fast, running on identical hardware.
Added to which, at the time the fastest Intel platform for Oracle 6 was Netware - running at ring 0 really gave those queries a boost, so as an application server, Netware was far superior - it just lacked the developer base, which was a pity as NLMs werejust as easy to code as Windows binaries, without the Win32 API bloat.
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I've encountered problems with users sending to multiple recipients in the same domain from a Yahoo! account, where Qmail sends the email not just once, but N times (where N is the number of users), resulting in N^2 emails being processed by the recieving server.
I conclude from this behaviour that Qmail is fundamentally broken, and am a firm believer in Postfix (all hail the mighty Big Blue!).
:P
True enough, they don't carry a large range, so I guess you were unlucky.
And I'm certainly not a Cargo Cultist - although the great white gods who arried on silvery wings with their ribbons and their bows certainly impressed me with their mastery of the Universe the last time they visited my island. :P
I just don't find the idea that there's mass that we can't see (or, more precisely, that doesn't interact with the observable universe other than gravitationally) to be outlandish.
Both MOND and 'invisible mass' are unattractive, but to posit that there are things I can't see is easier for me personally than to tear up a beautifully simple equation that holds good for a huge range of scales.
I was trained as a mathematician, not a physicist, so my aesthetic sense tends to militate against introducing complexity without good reason.
Postulating a more complex equation for gravity, as opposed to keeping things simple and looking for a physical reason for the observations not fitting the naive expectations of the observer, seems slightly Ptolemaic.
I certainly wouldn't call MOND a crackpot idea - after all, Kepler's insight provided the mathematical foundation for the Newtonian 1/r^2 relation, replacing epicycles with ellipses in a beautiful simplification, but there's the rub - Kepler simplified, MOND adds complexity and would discourage the search for 'dark matter' or whatever might be the physical cause of the divergence between observation and theory.
Nice of you to bring MOND to our attention, though - it brightened up an otherwise miserable early morning in the office :P
I'm sure they stock quite a few instant coffees too, but since I never drink instant, I never look.
As for tea, a good tea is as complex as a fine wine, but for some reason most of the tea drunk in the UK is of the 'builders tea' variety, taken with milk and sugar - be it PG Tips, Yorskhire or whatever, it's far from a good Orange Pekoe or a Darjeeling.
I drink my tea black, no sugar, and never use teabags.
Perhaps it needs a supercapacitor to even out the load?
:P
There's no absolute necessity for someone to have been bribed - a very generous discount for the licenses plus the prospect of being able to abstract a chunk of the budget for a nice big Windows installation could have been enough to influence a decision maker without baksheesh changing hands.
Thus a $220,000 fine against an individual is disproportionate, but a bunch of $195,000 fines against a hugely profitable corporate entity is not necessarily so, given that part of the objective in setting the fine is to deter future behaviour of the same kind by others.
Even a $195,000,000 total fine against Comcast wuld be, in relation to income and ability to pay, proportinately far less than the $220,000 awarded against the file sharer.
Sure, Comcast shareholders might get a smaller dividend, but then at the next AGM the pension funds, etc. can pressurise the Comcast board to eliminate the offending behaviour in the future.
The file sharer, on the other hand, will likely have to declare bankruptcy and maybe lose her home.
I think 'cruel and unusual' depends heavily on who or what is being fined.
:P
It could well be that Ballmer and his friends are making a charitable gesture by donating / heavily discounting 17,000 Windows licenses - there's probably a nice little earner in it for whoever is running the project too, as 17,000 Windows installs will take a good deal of manpower / project management / consultancy fees etc.
There, fixed that for you.
Is this data warehouse thingy they are using some kind of Memory Hole?
The fact that this behaviour is passed down from generation to generation makes it, for me at least, qualify as a culture on the same sort of level as hunter-gatherers in human terms.
If it had been me, I would have felt perfectly within my rights to put said manager on his ass the moment he tried to steal what was, by then, my property, and let the law sort it out if he objected.
The nearest we've got to Best Buy in the UK is PC World / Dixons, and I've had so many bust-ups with managers in those stores over mis-labelling, poorly placed stock, etc. that I now just don't shop there any more, else I would be risking getting done for GBH.
And when you compound the situation by supporting an aggressive rogue state in the heart of the Middle East, allowing that state carte blanche to oppress and murder civilians in territories that are illegally occupied some 40 years after a war of aggression started by that rogue state, is it any wonder that the Arab (and non-Arab) Muslim world sees you as evil?
Get out of Iraq, then sort out Israel and force them to behave like a civilised nation, and let's see if support for anti-Western ideologies collapses in the region.
I think it might...
Does it run Linux?
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck ...
Having said that, if one reads TFA to the end, the argument that the existence of more-or-less ineffective filtering actually helped in the dissemination of information about the Burmese government repression seems reasonable - the sense of false security afforded the authorities by their possession of filtering may have provided a window of opportunity for the citizenry to get information to the world.
Total bastards use SCO (Superficially Copyrighted Optics)!
When Phillipa was on screen, who cared about the technology?
From the summary:
It might be a big drain to them, but if internet sites provide their own means of filtering (thus complying with the letter and the spirit of the law), then working with those various systems is just the cost of doing business in a free market.
The company I code for has to integrate with many CRM and WFM applications, and it's often a custom integration for each customer.
That's fine - keeps me in work, but it ups the cost to my employer.
Now if we could mandate that every customer had to use SAP, say, then I'd have relatively little to do all day and could spend even more time on /. arguing with the friends of the **AA.
:P
Funny though - my testing (mostly on ~30MB CAD files) showed Netware 3.11 to be at least twice as fast, running on identical hardware.
Added to which, at the time the fastest Intel platform for Oracle 6 was Netware - running at ring 0 really gave those queries a boost, so as an application server, Netware was far superior - it just lacked the developer base, which was a pity as NLMs werejust as easy to code as Windows binaries, without the Win32 API bloat.