Let me say what will happen here at Homey's Place - where you can do anything you like until you get on my damn nerves - when my first.epub with ads shows up:
They, having got on my damn nerves by putting Garbage In...
Cause Homey to write an Garbage Out script. and plaster it all over the intartubes.
Homey - with nerves now becalmed - then resumes his blissful, no intrusions permitted reading time.
Above this post in the timeline is a post whose signature reads:
There are less illiterates than people who can't read.
Almost correct. I'd put that as can't read with anything remotely resembling comprehension. Some of you write code. God help your users, and multiple gods help your co-workers.
First line of the summary and appearing four times is the word Canada. As in where this happened. Canada - you should grab something to steady yourselves - IS NOT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
So all those pithy, insightful posts about the RIAA (The Recording Industry Association of America), US statutes and so forth are a complete waste.
Yeah, yeah, I know: This is slashdot. Even so, this thread (so far) sets a new low.
... Not all that many will have an extra 30 amp circuit, and none have a 75 amp circuit anywhere.
You must not live in the "heat pump belt". My house - a whopping 1200 Ft^2, built 1990 - has a 200A service entry... with a 90A feed - to the heat pump. Unlike central air-cond, that load is present pretty much year round.
Being an electrical type, in possession of a clamp on ammeter with analog out and a DAQ system, I did some measurements some time back. Long story short: I could handle (install another circuit) for that 75A load and charge that car. But I'd need to choose which to do without: Heat/Cool, hot water or cooking with the conventional oven. Peak usage is ~140A. And let us not delve into inrush currents...
Another item which has received little or no consideration: Power Factor. Currently, utilities "eat" the wasted power from residential service with a PF of 0.7 - 0.8 lag. Wonder how those chargers work? Hopefully not variable-reactance XFMR (worst from a PF vantage). Or phase controlled (SCR / triac - not much better). Or inverter-chopper (can be PF friendly)? Anyone know?
You also to pass a reasonability test... first off PODS storage is *not* actually called or branded as such, they are an acronym for Portable On Demand Storage (a side business of Public Storage iirc)..
Just an FYI, when commencing an argument, check your facts. This: http://www.pods.com/ doesn't just sorta-kinda negate what you claim - it blows it clean away. Also, so does the container that sits in a neighbor's driveway down the street with foot-high letters P O D S that I can see from a couple of hundred feet away. Not to mention - but I will anyway - the various ones seen being transported and delivered all over the place.
Now you know why I (for one) find your argument, um, unpersuasive.
No it doesn't. The Earth is rotating and this may be demonstrated by experiment, ergo it cannot be said to be at rest. You can argue that one inertial frame of reference is as good as any other, but the Earth is not an inertial frame.
...There is nothing wrong with grabbing a map and a compass and going out on a hike, but with the advancement in tools to help us navigate more effectivily, who really wants to take an old school map with them....
Hi, long time hiker and caver here (+40 years at it) and the answer to your question is:
Anyone who wishes to avoid Nature's capital punishment for the crime of being stupid in her domain.
I have a GPS... and I always take a compass and waterproof USGS topo for the quad(s) I'll be in. Batteries and 'tronics can fail. They can be lost, as can the maps and compass. So be smart and have a backup. And keep the two sets of nav aids separated in your gear.
Regarding the WPA fail, I believe the GP was refering to Ubuntu 6.10 - Edgy Eft. Wireless + WPA was problematic. One had to deal with WPA supplicant and / or GNOME's nm-applet to get wireless up and running. I say "and / or" because I never did figure out which was the magic bullet;)
I swore off Windows in 2006. I tried many distros, including Debian. Ubuntu was the least troublesome to get working. This coming from a guy who has tinkered - and worked - with Linux since there was a Linux to tinker with. No babe in the woods here, I cut my teeth on the Unix Timesharing System Version 3 (and 4).
Sometimes the point is to build the best-est & baddest box in your part of the woods. Geek cred does have a certain utility (Debian). Other times we just need a functional machine for our work (Ubuntu).
But I will say this: Once (if ever) the economy comes back to the point where I can part with a few grand for my best-est & baddest build-to-tinker-n-tweak box - it will be running Debian.
Another great tool is "ip verify source vlan dhcp-snooping
" which can be used to block traffic from IPs/macs that did not obtain their IP from the DHCP server. This nicely prevents users from statically assigning addresses and/or spoofing their mac address.
The first - locking IP addys - is always true. The second is not when the physical port can be accessed.
... It sure isn't obvious that the force that keeps you from falling through the ground to the center of the Earth is electromagnetic...
The hell it isn't, and the nature of this force can be readily demonstrated with simple and commonly had objects:
Battery
Wire
Incadescent lamp
Pair of magnets
Compass (the navigational kind)
I'll skip the details one how one uses the above to demonstrate that opposite charges / polarity attract and like repels as most readers of/. are smart enough to figure it out. But those simple demonstrations with a grade school level description of the atom makes it obvious.
And with not a single calculation or equation being used:)
No one is suggesting that after studying materials like this that someone is qualified to do PhD level work. The value in material like this in it's utility in combating the woo-woo purveyors out there.
Oh, it's a business model patent....
That describes how my (and yours) local Chinese buffet restaurant differentiates it's lunch and supper hours business.
Fail: Prior Art.
But wait! They're using a computer, that makes it different!
So does the restaurant owner....
So... your position boils down to: Having even more people die - only thing that distinguishes the second group from the former is you don't like them.
Hard to see a difference between you and what you rail on about, now isn't it?
... do people really still use an OS that stopped being developed a decade ago?
Yep. Even older: The last DOS (MSDOS 4.01, running on a ancient Compaq) install I had to maintain was retired last July. This in a ~ 26bil (US) Fortune 500 company. It operated a testing apparatus. Lack of slow enough hardware (not kidding) to replace that Compaq was why it was retired.
... the market will only pay for what it will bare...
Speaking of thinking and being critical... just what kind of market are you referring to? The red light district? We were discussing DRAM...
PS: Your thinking in the last paragraph is a bit naive. Given:
1. A minuscule fine in proportion to profits.
2. Increasing the fine will take forever to implement: Evil Mega Corp. Inc. has a cadre of lawyers and lobbyists to make this so.
3. Corporations - while enjoying many of the perks of being human - are not, in fact human. It has no soul, no empathy no "feelings" at all. What they do have are software, accountants, and driven-to-succeed(-at-any-cost) types all over the upper middle and senior ranks.
These lead to (pick one)
4a. The fine gets folded into the cost of doing business at location X by automation. Since the cost to operate just went up the price to sell adjusts up as well.
4b. Busted here? Well, shoot, how about that market over yonder? Wonder how long we'll have to wait (answer for the US: about a decade for a two-term administration, 5 years for a one-shot) before we can game this market again?
Under the law, I've granted the public the right to use that program without paying me any money, but only under the terms I, as the copyright holder, have allowed. If you violate the license, you've stolen from me.
Nice sleight of hand there. And I'm burning mod points here, so be nice and pay attention, please.
Should you so choose you can - under the law - commence charges, in civil court against the violator. You will have to show the court your standing (your privilege to instantiate proceedings) AND what unlawful or tortuous act was committed, and be specific about it.
Your attorney will tell you, the judge will tell you - and yes I'll point it out as well: Your feelings of being "stolen from" don't matter. What matters is the Law - which says you have a violation of Contract predicated upon Copyright Law, not an act of Larceny.
Your GPL example is also not Larceny.
In other words, guess what: No matter how big a bitch-fit tantrum you throw, no matter how much you wish it to be true, what you believe simply is not true - under the law.
Sorry, couldn't resist the opportunity for snark. "collective ecosystem knowledge". What the hell is that? Pure noise, bereft of signal is what that is. Some days I really mourn the death of literacy. This be one of those days.
Not to mention that once the cops have pepper sprayed someone, the last thing on that person's mind will be "let's fight."
Nope. During - and immediately after an assault, be that from pepper spray, baton or fist - precisely two thoughts or impulses will be bouncing around in the assaulted person's mind: Fight
or Flight
And from what I've seen in a half-century of living - either is likely.
.You needn't worry about your GPS unit, ever since the Firestone tire debacle. The resulting law said that every tire needed to be able to be identified as being from Lot #X without being dismounted (prior to that lot numbers were printed on the inside of the tire). The manufacturers' solution was RFID chips with unique serial numbers embedded in every tire.
Uh, no. I work in the tire manufacture business. The lot ID has always been - and still is - available for inspection on the outside of the tire. We call this the "serial plate", it's mounted to the mold. Look for a series of letters / numbers bracketed by impressions of what looks like screw heads: that's the serial plate. It's near the bead area. Granted, it may be on the inboard side and may require you to crawl about with an inspection mirror (or put the vehicle up on a rack), but no need to dismount the tire. Tire lot ID's were never on the inside of a tire. What people see there are impressions of the cure press' bladder lot ID, a different thing entirely.
What the law requires is for vehicle manufacturers to provide a way of reading tire pressures automatically and notifiying the vehicle operator of low and/or imbalanced tire pressures. The pressure transponder (an RFID-like device) is part of the valve assembly, not the tire.
Various tire makers have experimented with placing RFID tags into tires but with little success. It's a very hostile environment (high temperatures and pressures) inside the material while the tire is being cured, tags don't survive it very well.
It sounds to me like your being.... what's the word / phrase I'm searching for.... a concerned parent. Vigilant about the young'un. I.E. what you're supposed to be doing. That duty you owe the kid, yourself and us, the rest of society.
Get the answers to your questions (I don't have 'em). Do the fact-checking. Decide on a course of action.
Now an interesting question arises for Kargeneth's post:
Slashdot Mirror
Let me say what will happen here at Homey's Place - where you can do anything you like until you get on my damn nerves - when my first .epub with ads shows up:
They, having got on my damn nerves by putting Garbage In ...
Cause Homey to write an Garbage Out script. and plaster it all over the intartubes.
Homey - with nerves now becalmed - then resumes his blissful, no intrusions permitted reading time.
The sequence "foo bar biz baz" is "toto titi tata tutu".
Whoa .... you mean if I move to France I can haz titi while coding? Where do I sign up?
Above this post in the timeline is a post whose signature reads:
There are less illiterates than people who can't read.
Almost correct. I'd put that as can't read with anything remotely resembling comprehension. Some of you write code. God help your users, and multiple gods help your co-workers.
First line of the summary and appearing four times is the word Canada . As in where this happened. Canada - you should grab something to steady yourselves - IS NOT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
So all those pithy, insightful posts about the RIAA (The Recording Industry Association of America), US statutes and so forth are a complete waste.
Yeah, yeah, I know: This is slashdot. Even so, this thread (so far) sets a new low.
... Not all that many will have an extra 30 amp circuit, and none have a 75 amp circuit anywhere.
You must not live in the "heat pump belt". My house - a whopping 1200 Ft^2, built 1990 - has a 200A service entry ... with a 90A feed - to the heat pump. Unlike central air-cond, that load is present pretty much year round.
Being an electrical type, in possession of a clamp on ammeter with analog out and a DAQ system, I did some measurements some time back. Long story short: I could handle (install another circuit) for that 75A load and charge that car. But I'd need to choose which to do without: Heat/Cool, hot water or cooking with the conventional oven. Peak usage is ~140A. And let us not delve into inrush currents ...
Another item which has received little or no consideration: Power Factor. Currently, utilities "eat" the wasted power from residential service with a PF of 0.7 - 0.8 lag. Wonder how those chargers work? Hopefully not variable-reactance XFMR (worst from a PF vantage). Or phase controlled (SCR / triac - not much better). Or inverter-chopper (can be PF friendly)? Anyone know?
This:
"thousands of big image and video files" + inhouse web server + local ISP (telco / cableco) slow uplink speed = flaky or failure-prone performance
Shared Hosting / VDS / CoLo (in increasing desirability) with fat pipes to a backbone segment is what you need for this.
...
You also to pass a reasonability test... first off PODS storage is *not* actually called or branded as such, they are an acronym for Portable On Demand Storage (a side business of Public Storage iirc)..
Just an FYI, when commencing an argument, check your facts. This: http://www.pods.com/ doesn't just sorta-kinda negate what you claim - it blows it clean away. Also, so does the container that sits in a neighbor's driveway down the street with foot-high letters P O D S that I can see from a couple of hundred feet away. Not to mention - but I will anyway - the various ones seen being transported and delivered all over the place.
Now you know why I (for one) find your argument, um, unpersuasive.
No it doesn't. The Earth is rotating and this may be demonstrated by experiment, ergo it cannot be said to be at rest. You can argue that one inertial frame of reference is as good as any other, but the Earth is not an inertial frame.
Ah but it is - in it's own locality within spacetime. That was one of two concepts the the Gravity Probe B experiment was all about:
Overview: http://einstein.stanford.edu/
Frame dragging: http://einstein.stanford.edu/MISSION/mission1.html#two_effects
"E si pur mouve" - true. More so in light of the above experiment - even if Galileo never said it ;)
... is never absurd.
The "genius" of the "elites" usually is.
For those US citizens who don't get the genius reference: It's our Constitution. See Federalist Papers, for starters.
It never has had a Justice system - bound to certain select definitions of the word Justice.
Such as yours, mine or that dude over yonder. And that's a good thing.
...There is nothing wrong with grabbing a map and a compass and going out on a hike, but with the advancement in tools to help us navigate more effectivily, who really wants to take an old school map with them....
Hi, long time hiker and caver here (+40 years at it) and the answer to your question is:
... and I always take a compass and waterproof USGS topo for the quad(s) I'll be in. Batteries and 'tronics can fail. They can be lost, as can the maps and compass. So be smart and have a backup. And keep the two sets of nav aids separated in your gear.
Anyone who wishes to avoid Nature's capital punishment for the crime of being stupid in her domain.
I have a GPS
Regarding the WPA fail, I believe the GP was refering to Ubuntu 6.10 - Edgy Eft. Wireless + WPA was problematic. One had to deal with WPA supplicant and / or GNOME's nm-applet to get wireless up and running. I say "and / or" because I never did figure out which was the magic bullet ;)
I swore off Windows in 2006. I tried many distros, including Debian. Ubuntu was the least troublesome to get working. This coming from a guy who has tinkered - and worked - with Linux since there was a Linux to tinker with. No babe in the woods here, I cut my teeth on the Unix Timesharing System Version 3 (and 4).
Sometimes the point is to build the best-est & baddest box in your part of the woods. Geek cred does have a certain utility (Debian). Other times we just need a functional machine for our work (Ubuntu).
But I will say this: Once (if ever) the economy comes back to the point where I can part with a few grand for my best-est & baddest build-to-tinker-n-tweak box - it will be running Debian.
...
Another great tool is "ip verify source vlan dhcp-snooping " which can be used to block traffic from IPs/macs that did not obtain their IP from the DHCP server. This nicely prevents users from statically assigning addresses and/or spoofing their mac address.
The first - locking IP addys - is always true. The second is not when the physical port can be accessed.
... Reminds me of a quote one of my high school teachers was fond of: "Life is hard. But life is really hard if you're stupid."
Good teacher, following the sage words of the great Western philosopher Hondo*:
;)
"Life is tough. It's tougher when you're stupid."
* aka John Wayne
You stopped your list a bit short. After doing your 1-2-3 they arrive at:
4. He's a potential material witness.
They won't know, indeed cannot know precisely how material his information is until he is questioned, hence the detainment.
All legal and proper (in the US). Been that way here since 1789, do try to keep up.
... It sure isn't obvious that the force that keeps you from falling through the ground to the center of the Earth is electromagnetic ...
The hell it isn't, and the nature of this force can be readily demonstrated with simple and commonly had objects:
Battery
Wire
Incadescent lamp
Pair of magnets
Compass (the navigational kind)
I'll skip the details one how one uses the above to demonstrate that opposite charges / polarity attract and like repels as most readers of /. are smart enough to figure it out. But those simple demonstrations with a grade school level description of the atom makes it obvious.
And with not a single calculation or equation being used :)
No one is suggesting that after studying materials like this that someone is qualified to do PhD level work. The value in material like this in it's utility in combating the woo-woo purveyors out there.
Oh, it's a business model patent ....
That describes how my (and yours) local Chinese buffet restaurant differentiates it's lunch and supper hours business.
Fail: Prior Art.
But wait! They're using a computer, that makes it different! ....
So does the restaurant owner
So ... your position boils down to: Having even more people die - only thing that distinguishes the second group from the former is you don't like them.
Hard to see a difference between you and what you rail on about, now isn't it?
... do people really still use an OS that stopped being developed a decade ago?
Yep. Even older: The last DOS (MSDOS 4.01, running on a ancient Compaq) install I had to maintain was retired last July. This in a ~ 26bil (US) Fortune 500 company. It operated a testing apparatus. Lack of slow enough hardware (not kidding) to replace that Compaq was why it was retired.
... the market will only pay for what it will bare ...
Speaking of thinking and being critical ... just what kind of market are you referring to? The red light district? We were discussing DRAM ...
PS: Your thinking in the last paragraph is a bit naive. Given:
1. A minuscule fine in proportion to profits.
2. Increasing the fine will take forever to implement: Evil Mega Corp. Inc. has a cadre of lawyers and lobbyists to make this so.
3. Corporations - while enjoying many of the perks of being human - are not, in fact human. It has no soul, no empathy no "feelings" at all. What they do have are software, accountants, and driven-to-succeed(-at-any-cost) types all over the upper middle and senior ranks.
These lead to (pick one)
4a. The fine gets folded into the cost of doing business at location X by automation. Since the cost to operate just went up the price to sell adjusts up as well.
4b. Busted here? Well, shoot, how about that market over yonder? Wonder how long we'll have to wait (answer for the US: about a decade for a two-term administration, 5 years for a one-shot) before we can game this market again?
Under the law, I've granted the public the right to use that program without paying me any money, but only under the terms I, as the copyright holder, have allowed. If you violate the license, you've stolen from me.
Nice sleight of hand there. And I'm burning mod points here, so be nice and pay attention, please.
Should you so choose you can - under the law - commence charges, in civil court against the violator. You will have to show the court your standing (your privilege to instantiate proceedings) AND what unlawful or tortuous act was committed, and be specific about it.
Your attorney will tell you, the judge will tell you - and yes I'll point it out as well: Your feelings of being "stolen from" don't matter. What matters is the Law - which says you have a violation of Contract predicated upon Copyright Law, not an act of Larceny.
Your GPL example is also not Larceny.
In other words, guess what: No matter how big a bitch-fit tantrum you throw, no matter how much you wish it to be true, what you believe simply is not true - under the law.
To the very best of the collective's knowledge
There, fixed that for 'em.
Sorry, couldn't resist the opportunity for snark. "collective ecosystem knowledge". What the hell is that? Pure noise, bereft of signal is what that is. Some days I really mourn the death of literacy. This be one of those days.
Not to mention that once the cops have pepper sprayed someone, the last thing on that person's mind will be "let's fight."
Nope. During - and immediately after an assault, be that from pepper spray, baton or fist - precisely two thoughts or impulses will be bouncing around in the assaulted person's mind:
Fight
or
Flight
And from what I've seen in a half-century of living - either is likely.
.You needn't worry about your GPS unit, ever since the Firestone tire debacle. The resulting law said that every tire needed to be able to be identified as being from Lot #X without being dismounted (prior to that lot numbers were printed on the inside of the tire). The manufacturers' solution was RFID chips with unique serial numbers embedded in every tire.
Uh, no. I work in the tire manufacture business. The lot ID has always been - and still is - available for inspection on the outside of the tire. We call this the "serial plate", it's mounted to the mold. Look for a series of letters / numbers bracketed by impressions of what looks like screw heads: that's the serial plate. It's near the bead area. Granted, it may be on the inboard side and may require you to crawl about with an inspection mirror (or put the vehicle up on a rack), but no need to dismount the tire. Tire lot ID's were never on the inside of a tire. What people see there are impressions of the cure press' bladder lot ID, a different thing entirely.
What the law requires is for vehicle manufacturers to provide a way of reading tire pressures automatically and notifiying the vehicle operator of low and/or imbalanced tire pressures. The pressure transponder (an RFID-like device) is part of the valve assembly, not the tire.
Various tire makers have experimented with placing RFID tags into tires but with little success. It's a very hostile environment (high temperatures and pressures) inside the material while the tire is being cured, tags don't survive it very well.
It sounds to me like your being .... what's the word / phrase I'm searching for .... a concerned parent. Vigilant about the young'un. I.E. what you're supposed to be doing. That duty you owe the kid, yourself and us, the rest of society.
Get the answers to your questions (I don't have 'em). Do the fact-checking. Decide on a course of action.
Now an interesting question arises for Kargeneth's post:
Are people really this paranoid?
You mean the school or the parent?
Specifically No. 1, Part A of Niven's Laws:
1A - Never throw shit at an armed man.
1B - Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.
Myself, I'm following 1B with respect to this woman - whom, in the backstory behind this appears to be quite the nutcase.