We had under two hours of downtime planned and unplanned - on our enterprise email system in the last two years. Including moving all the data from one SAN array to another without the benefit of an array-based replication solution. Our unplanned downtime has been minutes. And not with a very expensive system. Four modest 1U servers, clustered, and a mid-range fibre channel array. In terms of staff time, it's a fraction of an FTE (not even half) to manage it. Oh, yeah, and I know the backups are good.
Sure. It'll be mandatory in those new UK "eco villages" the government is talking about. Along like charging you for leaving town, and the mandatory composting toilets. And I suspect the reeducation and orientation films will be spectacular as well. Eco Gulag. Well, that's unfair. Maybe Eco Ghetto.
Because most people don't give a damn about anything until it personally affects them? That's human nature. That's why McCain is freaking out about the poll numbers lately - people generally vote their wallets, with occasionally security concerns winning out.
The reason we hear about the DMCA here on Slashdot is because it has an effect on the typical Slashdot reader. A group who isn't very representative of the population. You think it's based on principle? Hah. Simple rationalization.
Yeah, but it was unlikely it was someone shorting Apple, isn't it? The SEC has clamped down on selling short right now, right? It's more likely that it was just someone screwing around. As long as they aren't an investor or trader, it's hard to see how they'd actually get in any trouble, any more than the guy who showed up on the BBC supposedly representing DuPont and claiming they were setting up a compensation fund for the people and families of the injured and killed from the Bhopal disaster. It was pretty funny - it put DuPont in the position of having to deny they were going to help people. (DuPont bought Union Carbide a number of years ago). Sure, this stuff can have real consequences, but it's not hard to claim you were just being funny if you have no financial ties.
The Wikipedia folks seem to be very self-involved. They actually seem to think they're on some grand crusade and are under attack. It's actually sad. Since keeping deleted articles on some alternative site calls into question whether or not it should have been deleted by one of their own, it's embarrassing to them. Sort of like their unwillingness to deal with a sock puppeteer when it's pointed out to them:
No, Steve Jobs will make the world better by selling cellphones that'll end up in landfills! That's all that's needed! None of this "giving to charity" thing. The starving and ill just need phones and ipods.
Does Slashdot claim not to be evil? Also, compared to Google and their aggregation of information, does Slashdot matter? I'd say no on both counts. Google, like Microsoft and a few other companies, are unique players, and soon (within the next 10 years) I suspect Google will be operating under at least the same level of review that Microsoft does in both the US and EU.
Have some self-control. Don't enable email notification features or applications. Don't have your Blackberry set to vibrate or beep when you get an email. When you're at a natural break in what you're doing (need a bio-break, have to talk to someone, just need to take a minute and stretch) check it at that point. Log out of your IM client or set your status to "away" or "busy" when needed.
WPS was great. As long as you were willing to go to the trouble, you could extend the objects to do nearly anything. One of the the biggest issue it had was the dependency on Presentation Manager (the main, legacy OS/2 UI underneath it, dating back to the 1.x days) and its single input queue. Which would get clogged up by a misbehaving app. They never fixed the input queue OS/2 itself (the PowerPC port was supposed to fix it, if I remember correctly), but OS/2 v4 added some ability to at least "sideline" apps that clogged up the input queue without hosing PM itself. The app would stay hung until you rebooted, but at least it wasn't causing problems for everything else.
The better-written apps never did this anyway.
I used OS/2 from v2 to v4. Actually owned DeScribe, GalCiv, etc. Great OS. It tided me over nicely until Windows XP came out and had enough bugfixes to to be tolerable.
If you want to see something funny, look at a copy of "OS/2 Warp Programming for Dummies" if you run across one. It actually included things like programming the WPS. Seemed unusually technical for a "For Dummies" book.
I've seen a ton of ReiserFS problems. Just because you come up with a really clever way to use the same BTree algorithms for a number of problems doesn't mean you ought to use only a single b-tree for everything. It gives you nowhere to go when something goes wrong. It's great to want to demonstrate how smart you were, but if you take that too far, it can turn something good into something dumb. Then again, wanting to demonstrate how clever he is might've been a major personality flaw of the designer.
Because it's primary purpose isn't a phone! It's a fashion accessory. It's to make you look cool, or well-off, hip, etc. And yes, a lot of people won't admit to no longer liking a consumer product they own. Being someone who waited at midnight makes it hard to go back and say "I was an idiot". As did overpaying for something with a multi-year contract when you factor out the total cost of ownership. And it has a cult-like following and your former brethren will turn on you like you're a heretic if you mention your doubts in public. Best to just keep quiet.
One thing you can use - delete the photos, show them an empty card via the camera LCD panel and walk away. Take the card out of the camera. Get the pictures back with photo rescue software. Much easier than the old-time "palm an extra roll of film and swap it as you hand it over" trick.
No - those are handcuffs, the chains are there, and there's no colors. Clearly, while it's meant to evoke the idea of the Olympic rings, it's different. It's certainly significantly different in intent (it would never be mistaken as an actual IOC logo) and it's significantly different in design. Google likes to bend over for China and the Church of Scientology - they don't want hassles from the latter, and they stand to make a lot of money from the former as long as they stick to their "Don't be evil could just mean amoral" corporate slogan.
It's not the IOC trademark - it's not even rings. It's handcuffs. Take a look at the "Reporters Without Borders" press freedom site. That's basically the image. There's no danger of dilution or confusion - it's mocking them. And if there's anything that those pompous, self-important gasbags and sleazeballs don't like, it's being made fun of. Bleah. The IOC and the Chinese government deserve each other.
I imagine if this type of technology takes off someone could use it to find a third party's DNA on someone's fingers. Divorce lawyers will love it! At it's extreme, this could be HILARIOUS.
No, but the fact that the Air Force has to worry about the effect on pilots probably is to some folks who like to see the military as a bunch of emotionless killing machines. It seems more like the training is about becoming *able* to do it, but the aftereffects are another story. The best anyone can likely do is rationalize it based on the chain of command, the necessity of the conflict, etc., all of which provides a moral framework for the decision to take someone's life. Some folks are going to find that harder than others, and the military needs those folks. They help prevent abuses. But the difficulty of this is one reason why we shouldn't use force for trivial reasons.
You're not supposed to speculate about who the next pope will be while the current one is still alive. And you're not supposed to be seen as running for the job once the time comes. I can only conclude that with typical transparency, Apple will adopt the same practices, right down to the closed meeting and the black smoke / white smoke as they try to come to a decision. Waiting three days to see of Jobs comes back seems only fitting, as well.
Supposedly that's it, according to some of the articles. He thought a lot of the others were screw-ups, so he kept access to himself. Everyone seemed to know it, as well, right up to the top of the IT organization. A new security person was hired, and that person didn't like the situation (may have come up during some sort of review). They made a point of asking him for the passwords, which he interpreted as "hey, we want to screw up the network - you know, the one you feel really possessive about" and refused. Didn't seem to recognize the authority of whoever delivered the message (don't know if it was the new security person or not). They then sent the police after the apparent master criminal.
Also, while they couldn't make configuration changes (that's what "locked out" meant apparently), the network continued to run, even without his intervention. So he might've been a doofus about this issue, and for all I know a total jerk with no people skills, but it sounds like (crazy access issue aside) he knew his job pretty well.
I suspect the new security person (who for all we know is more of a policy person than a technical person) handled it badly on their end as well, and may have gone for a club (formal meetings, demands) when a lunch conversation might've done the trick. The guy shouldn't have held onto exclusive access, but it sounds like the security person didn't handle it well. Apparently, that individual now fears for their safety, which I suspect is either an overreaction or a further attempt to demonize Childs to make it seem like whatever actions taken are justified.
Obviously, if you think you need protection from the state, you haven't spent nearly enough time with Nanny. She'll help you think the right way, Dear.
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We had under two hours of downtime planned and unplanned - on our enterprise email system in the last two years. Including moving all the data from one SAN array to another without the benefit of an array-based replication solution. Our unplanned downtime has been minutes. And not with a very expensive system. Four modest 1U servers, clustered, and a mid-range fibre channel array. In terms of staff time, it's a fraction of an FTE (not even half) to manage it. Oh, yeah, and I know the backups are good.
Sure. It'll be mandatory in those new UK "eco villages" the government is talking about. Along like charging you for leaving town, and the mandatory composting toilets. And I suspect the reeducation and orientation films will be spectacular as well. Eco Gulag. Well, that's unfair. Maybe Eco Ghetto.
The reason we hear about the DMCA here on Slashdot is because it has an effect on the typical Slashdot reader. A group who isn't very representative of the population. You think it's based on principle? Hah. Simple rationalization.
Yeah, but it was unlikely it was someone shorting Apple, isn't it? The SEC has clamped down on selling short right now, right? It's more likely that it was just someone screwing around. As long as they aren't an investor or trader, it's hard to see how they'd actually get in any trouble, any more than the guy who showed up on the BBC supposedly representing DuPont and claiming they were setting up a compensation fund for the people and families of the injured and killed from the Bhopal disaster. It was pretty funny - it put DuPont in the position of having to deny they were going to help people. (DuPont bought Union Carbide a number of years ago). Sure, this stuff can have real consequences, but it's not hard to claim you were just being funny if you have no financial ties.
Each dollar given to her as part of her ridiculous severance package was given it's own unique IP address.
The Wikipedia folks seem to be very self-involved. They actually seem to think they're on some grand crusade and are under attack. It's actually sad. Since keeping deleted articles on some alternative site calls into question whether or not it should have been deleted by one of their own, it's embarrassing to them. Sort of like their unwillingness to deal with a sock puppeteer when it's pointed out to them:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/19/wikipedia_civil_servant_scandal/
No, Steve Jobs will make the world better by selling cellphones that'll end up in landfills! That's all that's needed! None of this "giving to charity" thing. The starving and ill just need phones and ipods.
That's what folks generally call a "mistress". If you're having an affair, she's not a "girlfriend".
Does Slashdot claim not to be evil? Also, compared to Google and their aggregation of information, does Slashdot matter? I'd say no on both counts. Google, like Microsoft and a few other companies, are unique players, and soon (within the next 10 years) I suspect Google will be operating under at least the same level of review that Microsoft does in both the US and EU.
Have some self-control. Don't enable email notification features or applications. Don't have your Blackberry set to vibrate or beep when you get an email. When you're at a natural break in what you're doing (need a bio-break, have to talk to someone, just need to take a minute and stretch) check it at that point. Log out of your IM client or set your status to "away" or "busy" when needed.
WPS was great. As long as you were willing to go to the trouble, you could extend the objects to do nearly anything. One of the the biggest issue it had was the dependency on Presentation Manager (the main, legacy OS/2 UI underneath it, dating back to the 1.x days) and its single input queue. Which would get clogged up by a misbehaving app. They never fixed the input queue OS/2 itself (the PowerPC port was supposed to fix it, if I remember correctly), but OS/2 v4 added some ability to at least "sideline" apps that clogged up the input queue without hosing PM itself. The app would stay hung until you rebooted, but at least it wasn't causing problems for everything else.
The better-written apps never did this anyway.
I used OS/2 from v2 to v4. Actually owned DeScribe, GalCiv, etc. Great OS. It tided me over nicely until Windows XP came out and had enough bugfixes to to be tolerable.
If you want to see something funny, look at a copy of "OS/2 Warp Programming for Dummies" if you run across one. It actually included things like programming the WPS. Seemed unusually technical for a "For Dummies" book.
Oh, I think they'll be more likely to attempt to avoid taxes than censorship. Based on past performance.
I've seen a ton of ReiserFS problems. Just because you come up with a really clever way to use the same BTree algorithms for a number of problems doesn't mean you ought to use only a single b-tree for everything. It gives you nowhere to go when something goes wrong. It's great to want to demonstrate how smart you were, but if you take that too far, it can turn something good into something dumb. Then again, wanting to demonstrate how clever he is might've been a major personality flaw of the designer.
Because it's primary purpose isn't a phone! It's a fashion accessory. It's to make you look cool, or well-off, hip, etc. And yes, a lot of people won't admit to no longer liking a consumer product they own. Being someone who waited at midnight makes it hard to go back and say "I was an idiot". As did overpaying for something with a multi-year contract when you factor out the total cost of ownership. And it has a cult-like following and your former brethren will turn on you like you're a heretic if you mention your doubts in public. Best to just keep quiet.
One thing you can use - delete the photos, show them an empty card via the camera LCD panel and walk away. Take the card out of the camera. Get the pictures back with photo rescue software. Much easier than the old-time "palm an extra roll of film and swap it as you hand it over" trick.
It's almost embarrassing.
Why almost?
No - those are handcuffs, the chains are there, and there's no colors. Clearly, while it's meant to evoke the idea of the Olympic rings, it's different. It's certainly significantly different in intent (it would never be mistaken as an actual IOC logo) and it's significantly different in design. Google likes to bend over for China and the Church of Scientology - they don't want hassles from the latter, and they stand to make a lot of money from the former as long as they stick to their "Don't be evil could just mean amoral" corporate slogan.
It's not the IOC trademark - it's not even rings. It's handcuffs. Take a look at the "Reporters Without Borders" press freedom site. That's basically the image. There's no danger of dilution or confusion - it's mocking them. And if there's anything that those pompous, self-important gasbags and sleazeballs don't like, it's being made fun of. Bleah. The IOC and the Chinese government deserve each other.
Actually, I think your reading of it provided the more apt description.
Huh? AA basically received the corporate death penalty. They couldn't continue doing business after licenses were revoked, at least here in the US.
I imagine if this type of technology takes off someone could use it to find a third party's DNA on someone's fingers. Divorce lawyers will love it! At it's extreme, this could be HILARIOUS.
No, but the fact that the Air Force has to worry about the effect on pilots probably is to some folks who like to see the military as a bunch of emotionless killing machines. It seems more like the training is about becoming *able* to do it, but the aftereffects are another story. The best anyone can likely do is rationalize it based on the chain of command, the necessity of the conflict, etc., all of which provides a moral framework for the decision to take someone's life. Some folks are going to find that harder than others, and the military needs those folks. They help prevent abuses. But the difficulty of this is one reason why we shouldn't use force for trivial reasons.
You're not supposed to speculate about who the next pope will be while the current one is still alive. And you're not supposed to be seen as running for the job once the time comes. I can only conclude that with typical transparency, Apple will adopt the same practices, right down to the closed meeting and the black smoke / white smoke as they try to come to a decision. Waiting three days to see of Jobs comes back seems only fitting, as well.
Supposedly that's it, according to some of the articles. He thought a lot of the others were screw-ups, so he kept access to himself. Everyone seemed to know it, as well, right up to the top of the IT organization. A new security person was hired, and that person didn't like the situation (may have come up during some sort of review). They made a point of asking him for the passwords, which he interpreted as "hey, we want to screw up the network - you know, the one you feel really possessive about" and refused. Didn't seem to recognize the authority of whoever delivered the message (don't know if it was the new security person or not). They then sent the police after the apparent master criminal.
Also, while they couldn't make configuration changes (that's what "locked out" meant apparently), the network continued to run, even without his intervention. So he might've been a doofus about this issue, and for all I know a total jerk with no people skills, but it sounds like (crazy access issue aside) he knew his job pretty well.
I suspect the new security person (who for all we know is more of a policy person than a technical person) handled it badly on their end as well, and may have gone for a club (formal meetings, demands) when a lunch conversation might've done the trick. The guy shouldn't have held onto exclusive access, but it sounds like the security person didn't handle it well. Apparently, that individual now fears for their safety, which I suspect is either an overreaction or a further attempt to demonize Childs to make it seem like whatever actions taken are justified.
Obviously, if you think you need protection from the state, you haven't spent nearly enough time with Nanny. She'll help you think the right way, Dear.