Especially if the sysadmins take an active role in:
A. Customizing and minimizing the installed packages. B. Configuring a very restrictive set of firewall rules. C. Configuring a very tight SELinux policy.
The key to Linux is to not think of it as on Operating System so much as an "OS Toolbox" that lets you build just what is needed.
There is one flaw that I see in the Safe Harbor provisions, and that flaw is simply that there is no recourse against a false claim of infringement. Processing these requests does cost time, money, and at least some period where content can be made unavailable.
Perhaps it should be necessary to post a bond for the maximum amount of "claimed damages" prior to sending the notice, just to prevent damage to innocent non-infringers?
Why not just make the battery pack a swappable component? Drive into the "recharge station" and swap battery packs? If they are standardized, that could be easily viable.
Looking at the tactics of the *AA crowd, it will have to get to that level. Ordinarily, I'd agree with you on this one, but these people are relentless and have enough of an agenda + litigation budget to try circuit-hopping until they get favorable rulings.
Unless they really screw up and catch massive sanctions and some of their pit bulls face the neutering of disbarrment, that is.
This is very much a positive development, though really the whole issue is eventually going to have to go before the Supreme Court. At least they seem to have been generally pretty decent in their handling of Constitutional and "IP Law" issues the past few terms.
"Simpson claims nearly 50 businesses are without access to their email and data. Some of those clients provide internet services to car dealers and other companies."
It seems like the collateral damage could be truly huge here. If, as TFA states, 911 service was affected negatively, and something "bad" happened, there will be some 'splainin' to do here.
The problem with buying a company like Red Hat is very simple: you end up with nothing. It's a company basically of, by, and for open-source near-zealots.
If you buy it and try to control it, the talent leaves and you bought a client list.
Maybe I need to turn in my geek card, but all I expect from a phone is the ability to communicate by voice and very occasional text messages. I'll stick with an el-cheapo cell.
I'm going to sacrifice 5 of my mod points to comment here, just because I have to in order to refute your preposterous point.
"Climate change" and "fossil fuel supply" sure sound like big FUD points. We have little of the former, and much of the latter at this time. Thus, at this time, any radical and painful "cure" is not indicated any more than it would be for giving an ultra-aggressive course of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgury to a person who has a potentially pre-cancerous cell.
Could it be real? Yep. Could it be wrong? Yep.
I guess some people are SO uncertainty-adverse that they would rather guarantee an absolute collapse of the entire world's economy. Absolute collapse is easy and "certain" (properly engineered) and very comforting to the asshats that actually want such a thing to happen.
We can't just up-end an installed base that would cost tens (or hundreds maybe) of trillions of dollars to replace.
Truly clean energy in abundance and cheap enough that even the poorest person can have 10 kW/h sustained in perpetuity? Yes - I'm for that.
Energy so expensive that only the richest among us can have any? Fuck that, fuck it in the ear, and fuck anyone advocating such an approach in the ass with a canon firing a shell at full velocity.
And if a new tax or "cap and trade" law makes my heating bill double, I'll be beyond angry.
Why not just make the actual "flushing" process work primarily on memory cache data - including any "renames", "deletes", etc.?
If any "writes" are pending, then the other operations should be done in the strict order in which they were requested. There should be no pattern possible where cache and file metadata can be out of sync with one another.
I'd be mostly concerned about the lifespan of hard drives at these temperatures. The electronics can be easily made to tolerate heat, but drives are a weak link. The bearings and lubricants are especially vulnerable.
Something like this will simply fuel a black market in fake license plates to beat the cameras. Right now we have a problem with that in PA. There have been articles in the Pittsburgh papers regarding people fighting tickets issued in Philadelphia for vehicles that were proven to be 300+ miles away at the time of the infraction.
Basically, counterfeit plates carry a forgery charge, but one that will almost certainly be plea-bargained down to something insignificant when the case actually gets to court.
The big problem with cameras is that they don't have a cop on-site to ask for "license and registration" (thus dropping a part of what amounts to a public-private key pair - the publicly available plate number, plus the registration number). In a live traffic stop, the officer will verify all documents, plus the car type. Done photographically, that chance is lost.
Anyone can print random letters and numbers on a plate-sized piece of paper, and it's really pretty easy to make a metal license plate. Prisoners can do that one.
Even worse, having cameras for this type of enforcement makes the forger's risk much lower, as each camera displaces several "traffic cops".
The parent post hit upon the perfect balance. Really, I could live with 10 years from the date of "public availabilty" of any writing, design. or idea.
OO.o's "Base" is not even close to being an Access replacement, and a lot of small businesses run at least some mission-critical parts of the business on Access apps. They are important enough that they need to be kept in operation, but the business can't afford to rewrite them.
MS sells a version of Windows that is actually almost identical to "retail" for embedded applications, where any component can be selectively installed, not installed, or replaced. Windows Embedded (formerly XP embedded) shows that it's NOT impossible at all to have a working Windows install with IE.
Whether or not anyone would want to use it that way in the real world is a different question, but it should be an option to totally customize your machine's load however you want.
You forgot the asshats option in the equation. What makes you think that someone won't put a "node" into malware of some sort - and maybe one that simply proxies data flows.
We can't even stop malware's effects on SMTP, which every network admin in the world would demand (or at least consider) a death penalty to the spammers responsible for it.
Push P2P out as a stealth software product, and all bets are off, and plausible deniability is on - especially if the malware itself adds in a "random request/IP masquerade" feature...)
Yes, we do, but it's really more a "de jure" rather than "de facto" thing.
First, any competent attorney will cost at least $10k before you get to court (pre-trial proceedings, evidentiary motions, research, etc).
If you don't have the $10k to blow up-front, then you can get a public defender, who will usually be a less experienced lawyer with a huge caseload. The PD will do their best for you, but doesn't have the time or energy to really devote to your case, especially since she has 100 others in play at all times.
Add to this that the court rules themselves (ie: little things like "font size in brief" or "line spacing" or "citation reference format") are arcane to the extreme, and any one can be a landmine that blows the foot off of your case.
Next, add in that often prosecutors take an unreasonable "interpretation" of the law itself, which if unchallenged stands. And the challenge must follow ALL rules.
So - bottom line - it's $10k or jail, guilty or not. If guilty, it's probably $10k + jail, if innocent it's just jail.
If you have $100k and are innocent, you have a chance.
Maybe it was BOTH "Kill the family" and "Bill loves Emily" - and the message's quantum supposition function collapsed under observation to actually be "Bill is Emily" (and Bill's cat, being so hurt at her owner being exposed publicly as a freak, went into a box and fired the gun)
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Especially if the sysadmins take an active role in:
A. Customizing and minimizing the installed packages.
B. Configuring a very restrictive set of firewall rules.
C. Configuring a very tight SELinux policy.
The key to Linux is to not think of it as on Operating System so much as an "OS Toolbox" that lets you build just what is needed.
These are all great ideas, and I hope Firefox and/or MSIE pick up on them, simply because I can't stand the Chrome UI.
Sorry, but that thing just isn't what a browser is supposed to be.
The uhderlying technology can be the greatest ever, but if the interface sucks, well, I won't use it.
There is one flaw that I see in the Safe Harbor provisions, and that flaw is simply that there is no recourse against a false claim of infringement. Processing these requests does cost time, money, and at least some period where content can be made unavailable.
Perhaps it should be necessary to post a bond for the maximum amount of "claimed damages" prior to sending the notice, just to prevent damage to innocent non-infringers?
You do know that Linux uses all available RAM for disk buffers, but quickly releases it for use when an application requests some.
Why not just make the battery pack a swappable component? Drive into the "recharge station" and swap battery packs? If they are standardized, that could be easily viable.
Looking at the tactics of the *AA crowd, it will have to get to that level. Ordinarily, I'd agree with you on this one, but these people are relentless and have enough of an agenda + litigation budget to try circuit-hopping until they get favorable rulings.
Unless they really screw up and catch massive sanctions and some of their pit bulls face the neutering of disbarrment, that is.
This is very much a positive development, though really the whole issue is eventually going to have to go before the Supreme Court. At least they seem to have been generally pretty decent in their handling of Constitutional and "IP Law" issues the past few terms.
I tried it out, found the interface hideously dumbed-down, and reverted back to IE and FF. I still think it's a solution in search of a problem.
"Simpson claims nearly 50 businesses are without access to their email and data. Some of those clients provide internet services to car dealers and other companies."
It seems like the collateral damage could be truly huge here. If, as TFA states, 911 service was affected negatively, and something "bad" happened, there will be some 'splainin' to do here.
The problem with buying a company like Red Hat is very simple: you end up with nothing. It's a company basically of, by, and for open-source near-zealots.
If you buy it and try to control it, the talent leaves and you bought a client list.
Maybe I need to turn in my geek card, but all I expect from a phone is the ability to communicate by voice and very occasional text messages. I'll stick with an el-cheapo cell.
I'm going to sacrifice 5 of my mod points to comment here, just because I have to in order to refute your preposterous point.
"Climate change" and "fossil fuel supply" sure sound like big FUD points. We have little of the former, and much of the latter at this time. Thus, at this time, any radical and painful "cure" is not indicated any more than it would be for giving an ultra-aggressive course of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgury to a person who has a potentially pre-cancerous cell.
Could it be real? Yep.
Could it be wrong? Yep.
I guess some people are SO uncertainty-adverse that they would rather guarantee an absolute collapse of the entire world's economy. Absolute collapse is easy and "certain" (properly engineered) and very comforting to the asshats that actually want such a thing to happen.
We can't just up-end an installed base that would cost tens (or hundreds maybe) of trillions of dollars to replace.
Truly clean energy in abundance and cheap enough that even the poorest person can have 10 kW/h sustained in perpetuity? Yes - I'm for that.
Energy so expensive that only the richest among us can have any? Fuck that, fuck it in the ear, and fuck anyone advocating such an approach in the ass with a canon firing a shell at full velocity.
And if a new tax or "cap and trade" law makes my heating bill double, I'll be beyond angry.
Why not just make the actual "flushing" process work primarily on memory cache data - including any "renames", "deletes", etc.?
If any "writes" are pending, then the other operations should be done in the strict order in which they were requested. There should be no pattern possible where cache and file metadata can be out of sync with one another.
I'd be mostly concerned about the lifespan of hard drives at these temperatures. The electronics can be easily made to tolerate heat, but drives are a weak link. The bearings and lubricants are especially vulnerable.
Something like this will simply fuel a black market in fake license plates to beat the cameras. Right now we have a problem with that in PA. There have been articles in the Pittsburgh papers regarding people fighting tickets issued in Philadelphia for vehicles that were proven to be 300+ miles away at the time of the infraction.
Basically, counterfeit plates carry a forgery charge, but one that will almost certainly be plea-bargained down to something insignificant when the case actually gets to court.
The big problem with cameras is that they don't have a cop on-site to ask for "license and registration" (thus dropping a part of what amounts to a public-private key pair - the publicly available plate number, plus the registration number). In a live traffic stop, the officer will verify all documents, plus the car type. Done photographically, that chance is lost.
Anyone can print random letters and numbers on a plate-sized piece of paper, and it's really pretty easy to make a metal license plate. Prisoners can do that one.
Even worse, having cameras for this type of enforcement makes the forger's risk much lower, as each camera displaces several "traffic cops".
The parent post hit upon the perfect balance. Really, I could live with 10 years from the date of "public availabilty" of any writing, design. or idea.
The key date is "public availabilty"
OO.o's "Base" is not even close to being an Access replacement, and a lot of small businesses run at least some mission-critical parts of the business on Access apps. They are important enough that they need to be kept in operation, but the business can't afford to rewrite them.
MS sells a version of Windows that is actually almost identical to "retail" for embedded applications, where any component can be selectively installed, not installed, or replaced. Windows Embedded (formerly XP embedded) shows that it's NOT impossible at all to have a working Windows install with IE.
Whether or not anyone would want to use it that way in the real world is a different question, but it should be an option to totally customize your machine's load however you want.
Since the address is an official communication, why can't it be hosted on "whitehouse.gov"?
The President can't get enough bandwidth for it? The FedGov has bandwidth out, as Zappa would say, "the provervial wazoo"!
Jeez, this is actually pretty easy to fix. Just ask the tier-1 providers to provide no-cost peering to the whitehouse.gov site.
(Unless, of course, they want to face:
while (investigation.practices) == false {
if ((cash_in > 1000000000) || (good_press > $0x1000000)) && (rahm.canKillThisIfItGetsOutOfHand($Limbaugh_Now) && (ISPonLimbaughSide(Situation)))
Ah - forget the coding - just tell them there's bailout cash coming their way if they make it go viral.
You forgot the asshats option in the equation. What makes you think that someone won't put a "node" into malware of some sort - and maybe one that simply proxies data flows.
We can't even stop malware's effects on SMTP, which every network admin in the world would demand (or at least consider) a death penalty to the spammers responsible for it.
Push P2P out as a stealth software product, and all bets are off, and plausible deniability is on - especially if the malware itself adds in a "random request/IP masquerade" feature...)
Yes, we do, but it's really more a "de jure" rather than "de facto" thing.
First, any competent attorney will cost at least $10k before you get to court (pre-trial proceedings, evidentiary motions, research, etc).
If you don't have the $10k to blow up-front, then you can get a public defender, who will usually be a less experienced lawyer with a huge caseload. The PD will do their best for you, but doesn't have the time or energy to really devote to your case, especially since she has 100 others in play at all times.
Add to this that the court rules themselves (ie: little things like "font size in brief" or "line spacing" or "citation reference format") are arcane to the extreme, and any one can be a landmine that blows the foot off of your case.
Next, add in that often prosecutors take an unreasonable "interpretation" of the law itself, which if unchallenged stands. And the challenge must follow ALL rules.
So - bottom line - it's $10k or jail, guilty or not. If guilty, it's probably $10k + jail, if innocent it's just jail.
If you have $100k and are innocent, you have a chance.
I still think that Twisted Sister was a good hair band, at least in relation to most other hair bands.
Maybe it was BOTH "Kill the family" and "Bill loves Emily" - and the message's quantum supposition function collapsed under observation to actually be "Bill is Emily" (and Bill's cat, being so hurt at her owner being exposed publicly as a freak, went into a box and fired the gun)
Now the only thing I have to live for is for it to progress to 0x12:3456:7890 - which is a long time away.
Prefer that the rows of Tetris blocks explode in an orgy of gore and fire - with extra points if it's somehow sexualized.