TFS leads off with 'OMG! Pandemic next week!', as does the tiny, uninformative blog TFS links to, despite lack of citation to a source that might be more authoritative than a 2-paragraph pseudo-article. Fortunately, that blog links to a story that is actually informative and somewhat related to technical matters. It leads off with the less exciting, but probably more accurate 'Swine flu may have been caught early enough to prevent a serious U.S. epidemic.' Nowhere in the eetimes.com article does it say a pandemic is predicted within a week, and nowhere in the blog TFS links to is there a citation for the author's pandemic prediction.
I'm not saying the disease isn't serious, but will someone please beat some sense into the fearmonger who cut/pasted this shitty summary together? It makes my eyes hurt just to read it, and stinks of someone trying to drive up their blog's hit count.
dd if=/dev/yourharddrive of=/my/drive/copy.dd
cp/my/drive/copy.dd/my/drive/copy2.dd
mount -r -o loop/my/hard/drive/copy2.dd/mountpoint
... your wild "killalldata" application and tamper-resistant hardware gets you nowhere, unless your special hardware doesn't support block-level access. You're not planning on turning off block-level access with you tamper-resistant hardware, are you? Because that would really piss off your average filesystem.
There have been terrorist plots to weaponize airliners before 9/11, there have been plans since, and there will still be more in the future. One can only imagine that sooner or later some bad guy is going to figure out how to do it without getting stopped first.
What about terrorists makes you think that they don't reuse ideas? IEDs weren't exactly one-time events. Neither was the whole suicide bomber idea. If anything, I'd argue that once they try something, they are more likely than ever to try it again, especially if the first try met with success.
Several times? No. In the space of a few minutes it took off, lost power, turned, and glided down over the river to land. I appreciate your point, that not every low-flying plane causes panic, but it didn't have the kinetic evergy to make several horror-inducing passes overhead.
VMware and Xen run separate instances of OSes. Zones isolate virtual servers within a single OS instance. The requirements (especially memory) for zones tend to be significantly less than for hypervisors.
Sure, but Coke isn't the one releasing it. You are. I wonder if the coming cap-n-trade plans include going after soda drinkers? It would be amusing if we had to buy carbon credits from Coke just to drink one of their products...
You may be technically correct, however in terms of real-world impact, this is secondary. GP states that realistically suspected libel must be taken down, and his point stands. This is because of several things, all of which a lawyer should be well aware of: a) Not everyone has the means to hire one of you, and when justice comes dearly (RTFA re: cost to litigate in the UK and size of libel awards), it is out of the price range of many, b) Not everyone with the means to hire a lawyer feels like doing so for the least little thing on the internet that might get someone else's panties in a twist, c) some libelous topics might be interpreted rather subjectively, making defense against the charges difficult, d) even ofter hiring said lawyer and spending time and money defending something that may well be trivial, there is still the chance of losing, even when one's case is solid.
The alarm here is that the law is bad because is leaves itself very open to abuse, regardless of possible defenses.
Except the RIAA is telling the host that someone is hitting on the RIAA's wife, and expects the host to do something about it, rather than take care of it themselves.
This removes the RIAA's campaign from the courts, where it was starting to show embarrassing losses, and where its underhanded and possibly illegal methods were subject to scrutiny, and allows it to operate in a realm where there are few, if any, checks on its abuses.
I don't support copying music illegally, but I also don't want my ISP in the back pocket of a powerful and ruthless corporate entity that has repeatedly shown lack of restraint, bad faith, bad judgment, and a complete disregard for those it wrongfully harms.
I have rights in the courts. What rights do I have if my ISP decides to cut my service? What happens when the RIAA wrongfully accuses someone, as they have in the past?
Well, that's good to know. I can't understand what the hell they are thinking. Alienating your install base is not a sustainable business strategy, at least not unless you already have a lock on 90%+ of the market. Even that only delays the inevitable.
From my humble observations, I think the reason an infant NT grew as big as it did against other, more capable, established OSes back in the early '90s is because it was easy to pirate and easy to learn to use (compared to, say, UNIX or NetWare), so lots of small businesses (owner is the IT guy) borrowed a copy and used it. When/if success happened and the business demanded IT growth, funds were generally available for legit purchases.
Aside from wholesale commercial piracy, MS should be grateful to those who still choose to use their products (even without paying for every license), and stop taking itself so seriously.
Good point, but I have a feeling that the sort of people he works for will lose interest once the crisis has passed for now. I say, use the urgency of the moment to achieve now what you probably won't be able to later. Plus, once you've bent the rules for them the first time, it becomes easier and easier for them to ask you to do it again and again.
Surprisingly, those 500 FOSS-supporting slashdotters might be right. Apparently, the economic poo we are wading through has a lot of businesses (esp smaller ones) considering FOSS. I don't know if Microsoft will ever again resort to auditing and suing its own install base en masse like it did years ago, but with their balance sheets sliding south just like everyone else, they might start looking to maximise the revenue from their unofficial install base, as it were. I sure wouldn't want to chance it. There are more FOSS equivalents now than ever for proprietary software. Now might be the perfect time to switch.
Slashdot Mirror
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Other than that, well done.
TFS leads off with 'OMG! Pandemic next week!', as does the tiny, uninformative blog TFS links to, despite lack of citation to a source that might be more authoritative than a 2-paragraph pseudo-article. Fortunately, that blog links to a story that is actually informative and somewhat related to technical matters. It leads off with the less exciting, but probably more accurate 'Swine flu may have been caught early enough to prevent a serious U.S. epidemic.' Nowhere in the eetimes.com article does it say a pandemic is predicted within a week, and nowhere in the blog TFS links to is there a citation for the author's pandemic prediction.
I'm not saying the disease isn't serious, but will someone please beat some sense into the fearmonger who cut/pasted this shitty summary together? It makes my eyes hurt just to read it, and stinks of someone trying to drive up their blog's hit count.
If they do ...
/my/drive/copy.dd /my/drive/copy2.dd
/my/hard/drive/copy2.dd /mountpoint
... your wild "killalldata" application and tamper-resistant hardware gets you nowhere, unless your special hardware doesn't support block-level access. You're not planning on turning off block-level access with you tamper-resistant hardware, are you? Because that would really piss off your average filesystem.
dd if=/dev/yourharddrive of=/my/drive/copy.dd
cp
mount -r -o loop
It has to work before it's considered dangerous.
Once-in-a-lifetime? No.
There have been terrorist plots to weaponize airliners before 9/11, there have been plans since, and there will still be more in the future. One can only imagine that sooner or later some bad guy is going to figure out how to do it without getting stopped first.
What about terrorists makes you think that they don't reuse ideas? IEDs weren't exactly one-time events. Neither was the whole suicide bomber idea. If anything, I'd argue that once they try something, they are more likely than ever to try it again, especially if the first try met with success.
... would affect the average slashdotter how, exactly?
Several times? No. In the space of a few minutes it took off, lost power, turned, and glided down over the river to land. I appreciate your point, that not every low-flying plane causes panic, but it didn't have the kinetic evergy to make several horror-inducing passes overhead.
"Eaten by sharks in a building"? Heavens no. The sharks use frickin' lasers these days.
"Dozens of feet"? Sure. The only question is how many dozens.
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but the original UNIX by AT&T was a crappy OS barely able to run two minutes in a row without crashing.
Huh? Solaris is SVR4-based, and is one of the most rock-solid OSes out there.
Zones != VMware / xen.
VMware and Xen run separate instances of OSes. Zones isolate virtual servers within a single OS instance. The requirements (especially memory) for zones tend to be significantly less than for hypervisors.
I thought the old Sun OS 4.1.x and prior was BSD based, and all the stuff in the last 14-15 years (Solaris, or Sun OS 5.x) was SVR4 based. Am I wrong?
Are you kidding? With that sig, I thought you were making a hilarious meta-joke. You should've just let it be.
"95% of all Harley Davidsons ever made are still on the road.
The other 5% made it home okay."
- found floating around somewhere on the interwebs
Sure, but Coke isn't the one releasing it. You are. I wonder if the coming cap-n-trade plans include going after soda drinkers? It would be amusing if we had to buy carbon credits from Coke just to drink one of their products ...
You may be technically correct, however in terms of real-world impact, this is secondary. GP states that realistically suspected libel must be taken down, and his point stands. This is because of several things, all of which a lawyer should be well aware of: a) Not everyone has the means to hire one of you, and when justice comes dearly (RTFA re: cost to litigate in the UK and size of libel awards), it is out of the price range of many, b) Not everyone with the means to hire a lawyer feels like doing so for the least little thing on the internet that might get someone else's panties in a twist, c) some libelous topics might be interpreted rather subjectively, making defense against the charges difficult, d) even ofter hiring said lawyer and spending time and money defending something that may well be trivial, there is still the chance of losing, even when one's case is solid.
The alarm here is that the law is bad because is leaves itself very open to abuse, regardless of possible defenses.
Except the RIAA is telling the host that someone is hitting on the RIAA's wife, and expects the host to do something about it, rather than take care of it themselves.
Sneakernet meets Limewire on a terabyte scale??
Hey! Watch what you're saying! Stop maligning pitbulls. ;)
This removes the RIAA's campaign from the courts, where it was starting to show embarrassing losses, and where its underhanded and possibly illegal methods were subject to scrutiny, and allows it to operate in a realm where there are few, if any, checks on its abuses.
I don't support copying music illegally, but I also don't want my ISP in the back pocket of a powerful and ruthless corporate entity that has repeatedly shown lack of restraint, bad faith, bad judgment, and a complete disregard for those it wrongfully harms.
I have rights in the courts. What rights do I have if my ISP decides to cut my service? What happens when the RIAA wrongfully accuses someone, as they have in the past?
Well, I suppose that there are worse forms of abuse the sheep could have endured at the hands of bored guys at night.
Even the cockroaches are saying "Yeah, I could probably survive one, but two? That's just crazy talk."
Well, that's good to know. I can't understand what the hell they are thinking. Alienating your install base is not a sustainable business strategy, at least not unless you already have a lock on 90%+ of the market. Even that only delays the inevitable.
From my humble observations, I think the reason an infant NT grew as big as it did against other, more capable, established OSes back in the early '90s is because it was easy to pirate and easy to learn to use (compared to, say, UNIX or NetWare), so lots of small businesses (owner is the IT guy) borrowed a copy and used it. When/if success happened and the business demanded IT growth, funds were generally available for legit purchases.
Aside from wholesale commercial piracy, MS should be grateful to those who still choose to use their products (even without paying for every license), and stop taking itself so seriously.
Good point, but I have a feeling that the sort of people he works for will lose interest once the crisis has passed for now. I say, use the urgency of the moment to achieve now what you probably won't be able to later. Plus, once you've bent the rules for them the first time, it becomes easier and easier for them to ask you to do it again and again.
Surprisingly, those 500 FOSS-supporting slashdotters might be right. Apparently, the economic poo we are wading through has a lot of businesses (esp smaller ones) considering FOSS. I don't know if Microsoft will ever again resort to auditing and suing its own install base en masse like it did years ago, but with their balance sheets sliding south just like everyone else, they might start looking to maximise the revenue from their unofficial install base, as it were. I sure wouldn't want to chance it. There are more FOSS equivalents now than ever for proprietary software. Now might be the perfect time to switch.