Reinstall grub? Really? Why would that be necessary? Do you know what causes your need to reinstall grub?
I was going to say "I've never had to do that" but I just realized that a year ago I reformatted for unrelated reasons (I wanted to resize various partitions) and reinstalled grub as a side effect, so I can't say whether I would have had to do it if I had waited longer.
The article implies that the drives which use the 3.3V line are the ones that support hotplugging:
However, without 3.3 V power, the SATA device may not be able to implement hotplugging as mentioned in the previous paragraph.
It doesn't say it directly, sure, but it does imply that drives that support hotplugging probably need the 3.3V line, so it is logical to conclude that existing drives using the 3.3V line are probably hotpluggable.
My SATA hard drive once flew out of my laptop (literally across the room) when I dropped it. I just popped it back in and used it for several more hours, nothing died.
Granted, I don't think anything was actually running at the time (just the OS), but nothing bad happened.
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I would agree - but my comments apply to LinkedIn as well (I did mention LinkedIn, after all). I don't have any social networking site accounts, so I guess I'm not doing it wrong either way;)
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I agree with you 100%. I have avoided Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. like the plague for various reasons, one being that in the long run I don't think it will actually do me any good. I get jobs effortlessly enough as it is;)
"Remote computing service" is not the definition that's important. The important definition is that for "electronic communication service", which is defined in Title 18 Chapter 119 Section 2510 as follows:
(15) "electronic communication service" means any service which provides to users thereof the ability to send or receive wire or electronic communications
A wireless access point is certainly an electronic communication service, whether it's run by an ISP, a coffee shop, or an average home user. Note that it doesn't say anything about public or private users; it just says "any service which provides to users thereof..."
The idea that it be "readily accessible to the general public" is not applied to "electronic communication service" anywhere in the text of the bill (at least not that I could find) - but even if it were, many users don't bother encrypting their wireless access points, so they are obviously readily accessible to the general public, and thus qualify for the logging requirements either way.
How is that a good thing? Keeping logs will slow down my router and fill up my hard drive space.
This legislation will make reformats more complicated as I suddenly find myself having to leave a filesystem intact and available to my router at all times.
If my router is on a UPS but the machine hosting the logs is not, the router can no longer keep logs, and I could get charged with a crime for not making sure logs were kept during that time.
There's zero benefit from this law. Implying that there are benefits, however sarcastically, is a bad thing.
You're forgetting that both parties support stronger information-retention laws. It was only a matter of time, really; if it wasn't a Republican it would be a Democrat.
That just means they'll make any wireless router incapable of keeping such logs illegal. Or rather, any such device would be implicitly illegal, since use of those devices would cause the log-keeping law to be broken.
It's not that, exactly; Psion wants people to stop referring to other companies' products as "netbooks", since supposedly only Psion can call a product a netbook.
It's like if someone starts referring to Dell desktops as iMacs (for whatever reason) on a popular blog; Apple would probably ask the blogger to stop.
It's absolutely idiotic to say "if you don't like the terms, return the software" but then make the manner of knowing what the terms are preclude returning the software.
That is what shouldn't be legal. All EULAs should be provided in outside-the-shrinkwrap envelopes for immediate, pre-purchase perusal.
I agree with my sibling post (the AC). If you're halfway decent at your skills, you can get job offers with minimal effort. I applied to exactly one company, and they hired me. I know people who are sitting on four or five job offers, and at least some of them aren't as good at programming as I am.
(Yes, I realize that's an arrogant thing to say. Is it news to you that programmers are arrogant?)
I'm trying to decide if being written up for working 1 minute overtime is better or worse than being fired for improving the codebase (improving, not "improving"), as was my case...
Usually tax write-offs for donations of physical goods are in the amount of the value of the goods (in this case, probably the amount that you could sell them for). Might be a little hard with rapidly depreciating stuff like computer hardware, though... but IANATA (I Am Not A Tax Accountant) so ask yours.
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Reinstall grub? Really? Why would that be necessary? Do you know what causes your need to reinstall grub?
I was going to say "I've never had to do that" but I just realized that a year ago I reformatted for unrelated reasons (I wanted to resize various partitions) and reinstalled grub as a side effect, so I can't say whether I would have had to do it if I had waited longer.
The article implies that the drives which use the 3.3V line are the ones that support hotplugging:
However, without 3.3 V power, the SATA device may not be able to implement hotplugging as mentioned in the previous paragraph.
It doesn't say it directly, sure, but it does imply that drives that support hotplugging probably need the 3.3V line, so it is logical to conclude that existing drives using the 3.3V line are probably hotpluggable.
My SATA hard drive once flew out of my laptop (literally across the room) when I dropped it. I just popped it back in and used it for several more hours, nothing died.
Granted, I don't think anything was actually running at the time (just the OS), but nothing bad happened.
I would agree - but my comments apply to LinkedIn as well (I did mention LinkedIn, after all). I don't have any social networking site accounts, so I guess I'm not doing it wrong either way ;)
I agree with you 100%. I have avoided Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. like the plague for various reasons, one being that in the long run I don't think it will actually do me any good. I get jobs effortlessly enough as it is ;)
Good to know, I suppose.
"Remote computing service" is not the definition that's important. The important definition is that for "electronic communication service", which is defined in Title 18 Chapter 119 Section 2510 as follows:
(15) "electronic communication service" means any service which provides to users thereof the ability to send or receive wire or electronic communications
A wireless access point is certainly an electronic communication service, whether it's run by an ISP, a coffee shop, or an average home user. Note that it doesn't say anything about public or private users; it just says "any service which provides to users thereof..."
The idea that it be "readily accessible to the general public" is not applied to "electronic communication service" anywhere in the text of the bill (at least not that I could find) - but even if it were, many users don't bother encrypting their wireless access points, so they are obviously readily accessible to the general public, and thus qualify for the logging requirements either way.
So sorry, you're wrong.
er... "I won't be keeping logs", is what I meant.
As a staunch conservative myself, I have to agree. I don't keep log files, though, nor do I plan to - and they can't make me.
I've already written my Senators and House Reps speaking out against this legislation...
The problem is that a party which knows enough to not want it would be made up of people who want nothing to do with politics.
I agree. Even if the law passes, I won't be keeping laws. I don't have the time, resources, or patience to make sure logs are correctly kept.
Of course I could just disable logging and claim I leave my WiFi turned off on the router, saying "there's nothing to log, so why turn on logs?"
No, but they would be illegal to use unless data retention were enabled.
How is that a good thing? Keeping logs will slow down my router and fill up my hard drive space.
This legislation will make reformats more complicated as I suddenly find myself having to leave a filesystem intact and available to my router at all times.
If my router is on a UPS but the machine hosting the logs is not, the router can no longer keep logs, and I could get charged with a crime for not making sure logs were kept during that time.
There's zero benefit from this law. Implying that there are benefits, however sarcastically, is a bad thing.
"He was acting fidgety and nervous, and he refused to let us see what he was doing."
I'd be surprised if this hasn't been used a thousand times as "probable cause" for a warrantless search.
If the only people running for office are people who legislate nanny-state laws, who are we supposed to vote for?
What's that you say? Run for office ourselves? I, uh, have to go.
On a whim I once tried to get my linksys router to mount a CIFS share and keep logs there. I never got it to work.
I really don't see how the average home user is supposed to get it to work, let alone work correctly.
You're forgetting that both parties support stronger information-retention laws. It was only a matter of time, really; if it wasn't a Republican it would be a Democrat.
That just means they'll make any wireless router incapable of keeping such logs illegal. Or rather, any such device would be implicitly illegal, since use of those devices would cause the log-keeping law to be broken.
It's not that, exactly; Psion wants people to stop referring to other companies' products as "netbooks", since supposedly only Psion can call a product a netbook.
It's like if someone starts referring to Dell desktops as iMacs (for whatever reason) on a popular blog; Apple would probably ask the blogger to stop.
Agreed. The device is little different from coaxing the cat into pressing the spacebar.
It's absolutely idiotic to say "if you don't like the terms, return the software" but then make the manner of knowing what the terms are preclude returning the software.
That is what shouldn't be legal. All EULAs should be provided in outside-the-shrinkwrap envelopes for immediate, pre-purchase perusal.
I agree with my sibling post (the AC). If you're halfway decent at your skills, you can get job offers with minimal effort. I applied to exactly one company, and they hired me. I know people who are sitting on four or five job offers, and at least some of them aren't as good at programming as I am.
(Yes, I realize that's an arrogant thing to say. Is it news to you that programmers are arrogant?)
The trick is to only make friends in other industries ;)
I'm trying to decide if being written up for working 1 minute overtime is better or worse than being fired for improving the codebase (improving, not "improving"), as was my case...
Usually tax write-offs for donations of physical goods are in the amount of the value of the goods (in this case, probably the amount that you could sell them for). Might be a little hard with rapidly depreciating stuff like computer hardware, though... but IANATA (I Am Not A Tax Accountant) so ask yours.