Copyright infringement != stealing. In neither case.
It is a hair-splitting distinction. In either case, value-- whether perceived, or real-- is lost, which directly impacts the salability of a good (whether physical or digital).
We are talking about a business here that has regularly ripped off its own artists
So youre saying that the artists in question are incapable of making their own decisions and signing their own contracts, and that you should be the sole arbitrator of which contracts are legitimate and which are not?
Or are you rather suggesting that, law be damned, two wrongs DO make a right?
You should probably check out iTunes or Amazon, since their mp3 albums are only $10 (for between 15 and 30 songs), and their individual tracks only $1. Sounds like youre getting ripped off.
Some of the prices are dropping below $1, actually.
So the answer is "yes, everyone is making wild, worst case assumptions without a shred of evidence". Well, good to know those great IT person analytical skills are in good working order.
You can also roll your own tech disk. If you want to see a customized version with all the Ubuntu crap ripped out and tons of networking tools dropped in, take a look at this: http://98.175.96.149/files/TechToolkitV1.4.iso Its based off of ubuntu, and I remastered it myself about 1 1/2 years ago. Note that it has a remote control app (bomgar) baked in under ~/.bomgar, which autostarts on login. You can remove it and remaster it by installing it to disk and then running remastersys.
Malware doesnt just randomly hit 10,000 places at once; clearly YOUVE never done a by-hand disinfection. Malware targets specific things necessary to cloak its infection, most often the following: 1) exe file handlers-- register another binary to be launched whenever you double click an exe 2) auto-run locations-- use live.sysinternals.com/autoruns.exe to fix basically all of these 3) restrictive policies to block task managers and registry editors 4) currentcontrolset services-- will screw with permissions on registered malware services to prevent them from showing up in a scan 5) sometimes, safeboot gets tampered with too
I can in about 30 minutes and one or two tools detect most of that with a casual scan, and it takes not terribly long to fix if you are familiar with NTFS permissions.
I would note that Linux ALREADY has its "registry formats", like gconf; but then this was never about being rational, it was about ignorant people spouting off about things they dont understand because "theyre binary" and "binary is bad".
The point is that everyone is being ridiculous about this. They are positing situations where they are responsible for recovery of vital data on a RHEL box, but then pretending that they are unable to fulfill basic tasks like "Install the prerequisites and binaries necessary to read the RHEL-supported log format" are beyond them.
If this takes off do you REALLY think that a Fedora live cd wont have the binaries on it? Or that it wont be in the debian repositories? Are you REALLY suggesting that a this vital server is running on wifi, and you wont have the broadcom drivers (what, will you need a GUI to install it too?)
Good grief, I begin to wonder if im underrating my Linux skills-- apparently noone knows how to script, or use package management.
I'd say you're naive. The "free market" (i.e. heavily tilted in favor of large companies) would settle on a wage that isn't quite enough to pay your rent and groceries, much less Internet access. How does a schedule of 12 hours a day, 6 days a week sound? That's what the "free market" used to offer, back before employment law came into being.
Yes, and we're no longer in that situation. MORE regulation that ends up costing employees hours doesnt help.
I recall as a teenager working at fast food and being forbidden from going over 40 hours in a week-- they didnt want to pay time and a half. Myself, I just wanted more money, and eventually ended up taking a second job somewhere else. How did that law help me? I was trying to make as much money as I could in the summer, but was restricted by a law designed to "protect me from myself".
I was sort of wondering what the rationale was, since the summary gives none and the article is basically a rant about how its a bad idea. Thank goodness slashdot's comments sometimes compensate for their awful articles.
That is 5 weeks incase your over worked mind can no longer do math
Does this mean that jokes about yall being lazy are fair game as well? If jobs were better in every way in other countries, I imagine folks from the US would be going to those countries for jobs en masse.
you get fired and re-hired with the new terms or walk.
Rehiring requires your consent, and if the employer is that fickle, I would indeed walk. You really want to work at a place where the employer gives not a fig about their employees or how long theyve been there?
Id also point out that finding a new employee isnt free; if you decide to give them the finger and find a new job, they may have a vacant position for a few months, and they will have to retrain the new guy as well as deal with all the administrative paperwork. Hiring and firing cost money.
Historically companies have not been required to offer health benefits or reimburse business travel. Whens the last time you found a salaried job that didnt do both? I mean, by your statement, noone does either right?
Yes. Your system is really hosed, so you boot it with a LiveCD to read the logs. Does your LiveCD include readJournalLog? Do you really want to play with that possibility?
I assume your live distro includes package management, right? Have you never installed wireshark, or vmfs support, or HFS+ support on a live cd?
Hah. Guess you've never actually worked on Windows computers.
I deal with them daily. And I think I have resorted to a reinstall once or twice in my many years on them, believing most problems can be solved with enough research and work.
So...what's easier to diagnose and fix? Hundreds of thousands of obscure key/value pairs in the SYSTEM hive or changing a few lines of a.conf file?
Disingenuous much? Whats easier to fix, an incorrect entry in an ini file, or a deleted/etc folder? What the hell does that have to do with anything, youre comparing a single app's configuration to what is basically a database of settings for 90% of the programs on your system. When things go wrong, they dont just randomly break in a thousand places at once simply because theyre stored in the same file, any more than named.conf is likely to get screwed up simply because your exports file got screwed up.
Theres certainly no reason you cant use a package manager to install it to RAM-- you DO know you can install packages on a live-booted os, right?
Presumably, if it becomes a big deal, they all will have it, and youre not going to convince me that a corner case of a corrupted bin folder requiring you to install software to ramdisk on an old LiveBoot distro is somehow a serious argument against what RedHat is doing.
up with the wonderful Windows Registry? 9 out of 10 times non virus related PC problems are ALWAYS related to the registry due to database/index corruption.
Bull. Ive NEVER seen that occur. I HAVE seen issues with bad permissions causing issues (programs cant read a registry key), but that can occur in any system with access controls. Ive also seen issues with incorrect settings, but that can occur in any system where you can configure settings. And filesystem corruption of vital system files can happen whether you are using a binary format or a text based one.
Im glad to see so many windows "experts" have bought into the "fix your registry now" scam, though.
I hate the Windows eventlog and binary logs in general precisely because they become rapidly less accessible the more issues a system has
Not really, the requirements for reading event logs boil down to one or two DLLs, and MMC.exe. Ive been on systems where the whole windows folder disappeared (due to a wigging out drive and filesystem), and was still able to read data out of the event log by pulling those one or two files over.
I could write in about a day a logging program that would write binary data in a key-value format with hashing-- as they describe here-- which would meet all of your requirements. And neither am I a programmer, nor would I even have to use a full-fledged programming language.
It seems like people are assuming a ton of things about how said system will and will not function, just because of experience with totally unrelated database systems.
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Anyone who says anything that disagrees with my opinion is just delusional. I'm the only correct one![/sarcasm]
Were you INTENDING to be ironic?
And depending on your moral code, it might not even be wrong to begin with.
Unless you intend to turn this into a religious or philosophic discussion, the legal code of a society is what is most relevant here.
Copyright infringement != stealing. In neither case.
It is a hair-splitting distinction. In either case, value-- whether perceived, or real-- is lost, which directly impacts the salability of a good (whether physical or digital).
We are talking about a business here that has regularly ripped off its own artists
So youre saying that the artists in question are incapable of making their own decisions and signing their own contracts, and that you should be the sole arbitrator of which contracts are legitimate and which are not?
Or are you rather suggesting that, law be damned, two wrongs DO make a right?
You should probably check out iTunes or Amazon, since their mp3 albums are only $10 (for between 15 and 30 songs), and their individual tracks only $1. Sounds like youre getting ripped off.
Some of the prices are dropping below $1, actually.
Are you SERIOUSLY speculating on a situation where your vital server is running off of WLAN?
Do you even do IT work for a living?
Are you even aware that it is trivial and the work of an afternoon to re-roll a live distro with support for whatever you want?
So the answer is "yes, everyone is making wild, worst case assumptions without a shred of evidence". Well, good to know those great IT person analytical skills are in good working order.
You might need to register some dlls to get it to work.
You can also roll your own tech disk. If you want to see a customized version with all the Ubuntu crap ripped out and tons of networking tools dropped in, take a look at this:
http://98.175.96.149/files/TechToolkitV1.4.iso
Its based off of ubuntu, and I remastered it myself about 1 1/2 years ago.
Note that it has a remote control app (bomgar) baked in under ~/.bomgar, which autostarts on login. You can remove it and remaster it by installing it to disk and then running remastersys.
Malware doesnt just randomly hit 10,000 places at once; clearly YOUVE never done a by-hand disinfection. Malware targets specific things necessary to cloak its infection, most often the following:
1) exe file handlers-- register another binary to be launched whenever you double click an exe
2) auto-run locations-- use live.sysinternals.com/autoruns.exe to fix basically all of these
3) restrictive policies to block task managers and registry editors
4) currentcontrolset services-- will screw with permissions on registered malware services to prevent them from showing up in a scan
5) sometimes, safeboot gets tampered with too
I can in about 30 minutes and one or two tools detect most of that with a casual scan, and it takes not terribly long to fix if you are familiar with NTFS permissions.
I would note that Linux ALREADY has its "registry formats", like gconf; but then this was never about being rational, it was about ignorant people spouting off about things they dont understand because "theyre binary" and "binary is bad".
Then we should move to text-based filesystems, rather than the complex btrfs, ext4, and ntfs, right?
The point is that everyone is being ridiculous about this. They are positing situations where they are responsible for recovery of vital data on a RHEL box, but then pretending that they are unable to fulfill basic tasks like "Install the prerequisites and binaries necessary to read the RHEL-supported log format" are beyond them.
If this takes off do you REALLY think that a Fedora live cd wont have the binaries on it? Or that it wont be in the debian repositories? Are you REALLY suggesting that a this vital server is running on wifi, and you wont have the broadcom drivers (what, will you need a GUI to install it too?)
Good grief, I begin to wonder if im underrating my Linux skills-- apparently noone knows how to script, or use package management.
I'd say you're naive. The "free market" (i.e. heavily tilted in favor of large companies) would settle on a wage that isn't quite enough to pay your rent and groceries, much less Internet access. How does a schedule of 12 hours a day, 6 days a week sound? That's what the "free market" used to offer, back before employment law came into being.
Yes, and we're no longer in that situation. MORE regulation that ends up costing employees hours doesnt help.
I recall as a teenager working at fast food and being forbidden from going over 40 hours in a week-- they didnt want to pay time and a half. Myself, I just wanted more money, and eventually ended up taking a second job somewhere else. How did that law help me? I was trying to make as much money as I could in the summer, but was restricted by a law designed to "protect me from myself".
I was sort of wondering what the rationale was, since the summary gives none and the article is basically a rant about how its a bad idea. Thank goodness slashdot's comments sometimes compensate for their awful articles.
That is 5 weeks incase your over worked mind can no longer do math
Does this mean that jokes about yall being lazy are fair game as well? If jobs were better in every way in other countries, I imagine folks from the US would be going to those countries for jobs en masse.
you get fired and re-hired with the new terms or walk.
Rehiring requires your consent, and if the employer is that fickle, I would indeed walk. You really want to work at a place where the employer gives not a fig about their employees or how long theyve been there?
Id also point out that finding a new employee isnt free; if you decide to give them the finger and find a new job, they may have a vacant position for a few months, and they will have to retrain the new guy as well as deal with all the administrative paperwork. Hiring and firing cost money.
This is a large part of the reason Unions were born in the first place.
No, its not. Its hard to negotiate when you hold none of the chips, and it has nothing to do with individual ability to negotiate.
Historically companies have not been required to offer health benefits or reimburse business travel. Whens the last time you found a salaried job that didnt do both? I mean, by your statement, noone does either right?
Also text is very disk corruption resistant compared to binary
Thats a gross oversimplification; text is a subset of binary. Binary allows for things like journals and integrety checking.
Yes. Your system is really hosed, so you boot it with a LiveCD to read the logs. Does your LiveCD include readJournalLog? Do you really want to play with that possibility?
I assume your live distro includes package management, right? Have you never installed wireshark, or vmfs support, or HFS+ support on a live cd?
Hah. Guess you've never actually worked on Windows computers.
I deal with them daily. And I think I have resorted to a reinstall once or twice in my many years on them, believing most problems can be solved with enough research and work.
So...what's easier to diagnose and fix? Hundreds of thousands of obscure key/value pairs in the SYSTEM hive or changing a few lines of a .conf file?
Disingenuous much? Whats easier to fix, an incorrect entry in an ini file, or a deleted /etc folder? What the hell does that have to do with anything, youre comparing a single app's configuration to what is basically a database of settings for 90% of the programs on your system. When things go wrong, they dont just randomly break in a thousand places at once simply because theyre stored in the same file, any more than named.conf is likely to get screwed up simply because your exports file got screwed up.
Theres certainly no reason you cant use a package manager to install it to RAM-- you DO know you can install packages on a live-booted os, right?
Presumably, if it becomes a big deal, they all will have it, and youre not going to convince me that a corner case of a corrupted bin folder requiring you to install software to ramdisk on an old LiveBoot distro is somehow a serious argument against what RedHat is doing.
up with the wonderful Windows Registry? 9 out of 10 times non virus related PC problems are ALWAYS related to the registry due to database/index corruption.
Bull. Ive NEVER seen that occur. I HAVE seen issues with bad permissions causing issues (programs cant read a registry key), but that can occur in any system with access controls. Ive also seen issues with incorrect settings, but that can occur in any system where you can configure settings. And filesystem corruption of vital system files can happen whether you are using a binary format or a text based one.
Im glad to see so many windows "experts" have bought into the "fix your registry now" scam, though.
I hate the Windows eventlog and binary logs in general precisely because they become rapidly less accessible the more issues a system has
Not really, the requirements for reading event logs boil down to one or two DLLs, and MMC.exe. Ive been on systems where the whole windows folder disappeared (due to a wigging out drive and filesystem), and was still able to read data out of the event log by pulling those one or two files over.
And whoever said they were using mysql?
I could write in about a day a logging program that would write binary data in a key-value format with hashing-- as they describe here-- which would meet all of your requirements. And neither am I a programmer, nor would I even have to use a full-fledged programming language.
It seems like people are assuming a ton of things about how said system will and will not function, just because of experience with totally unrelated database systems.