journaling is just that. The file system keeps a "journal" of what is going on on the system. Below is from an article on FreeOS.com ->
http://freeos.com/articles/3933/
Journaling filesystems are sort of the elite in the business. They're what filesystems like FAT and ext2 want to grow up into. They're also essential for big enterprise server where data integrity is a priority.
The idea behind journal filesystems comes from big databases like Oracle. Database operations quite often include several related and dependent sub-operations. The failure of any one operation means that the entire operation is invalid and any changes made to the database are rolled back. Journal filesystems use a similar system.
A journal log file is maintained on the partition. Filesystem writes are first written to the log file. If a write operation is interrupted due to the machine unexpectedly going down -- power failure, crash -- then at the next boot, the journal log file is read and operations are rolled back. This process takes only a few seconds to few minutes rather than the hours that a `fsck' can possibly take, on larger servers.
For more info on journaling read here -> http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue55/florido.html
you know most people program for the windows world.. sometimes its a good thing!
Now that I have a super fast computer I am beginning to like mozilla and some of its features of turning off things, like images from certain servers. Maybe someone will implement turning off JS from hostile sites (like mozilla's cookie rejecting) or prompting you for this.
NOTE I am NOT talking about turing off ALL javascript, just allowing users more control over it.
This user may want to try proximitron (sp) it is a proxy that allows you to set up some filters. Thus turing off pop ups and pop back....
I think the boy scouts policy shoudl be like the girl scouts atleast. LEave it up to the troups not the whole organization. The boy scouts are even divided from within. DId it help them to exclude gays? NO it helped a few small minded people. If you include your self in that group then.
"Exclusion does not imply hatred". No? In this case it does. There are some people that hate gays and they exclude them and teach other their hateful ways.
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Hmm where in the boy scouts does it say you must be straight? It says 'morally straight' not heterosexual staright, there is a difference. They found out there was someone gay in the organization and they decided to get ride of him just because he was gay. Not becuase he molested someone, not because he flaunted it, but because he was gay. He was not teaching or promoting the fact that he was gay to anyone in the boy scouts. It is not in their teachings, it is the biggoted ways of some of the boy scout elders, who are probably white biggots and would remove blacks and asians if they could.
The message that this sends is that it is okay to hate someone or exclude someone just because they are gay. So where does that end? Hate people or exclude them cause you THINK that they are gay as well? Did you know that may of the current school shootings were by kids that were CALLED gay or queer? So how about a gay bashing goup in school or an anti gay group in school? Hmm we stop nazi's cause they hate more than just gays, they hate jews and blacks as well. So where does the hate end?
This teaches people that gays bad and that it is okay to NOT accept them. Or even worse to be called or thought of as gay is also bad.
"It is the right of the Boy Scouts to set their own agenda".. and it should be the right of public schools and public organizations to prohibit boy scouts and other hate teaching organizations from using their facilities as well, yet the hate mongers think that thay should have to right to hate and spread there hate.
"To impose upon the Boy Scouts a mandate that the gay guy be admitted would be the equivalent to the metaphorical "fist in the face" of which Holmes speaks. ".. and Holmes is a biggot! Plain and simple. To impose upon cities, states and counties that have gay rights laws inacted to accept this is and equal slap to the face. This is flat out discrimination based on what you think a gay person is like. Many cities and counties have enacted anti gay discrimination laws, and if you discriminate against gays it is a violation of this law. Ideally it would be in the constitution right after color, creed, it would say sexual orientation.
If your religion teaches hate then I want no part of it. Maybe someday the boy scouts and other hate organizations will open up their eyes and realize that this is just another form of hate...."
"Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?" Jesus said unto him,"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul , and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment." And the second is like unto it, "Thou shalt love thy neightbor as thyself." Matthew 22:36-39
.. no where does it say except if he is gay, straight, black, white, male, female, or any other exclusion... I bet you call yourself a Christian as well?
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"has sent me a lot of documents from total strangers I've never heard of before"
This has nothing to do with hsi friends being stupid. It has to do with getting email from people he does not know, that has attachments.
I got one the other day from someone I don't know. It was a word doc attachment. I'm just glad I use Linux and don't have word or anything loaded on my machine to read that crap.
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The fisrt ammendment is already ruined. Organizations like the boy scouts which use it to discriminate, or the salvation army which is trying to do the same are saying it is against my fist ammendment right to have so and so work for me. Now they say gays, next it coudl be blacks or asians or whatever.
In the russian guys case, is he a US citizen? If not he may not be thought of to have any rights in the US.
Persoanlly I think that this is bull crap, but there are large companies involved here and the goverment. Didn't you people ever watch the x files.. people disappear all the time. IN a few months it will be who was that guy?
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"That the Boy Scouts denies membership is in no way impeding on an individual's personal liberties."
I'd have to disagree here. The boyscouts KICKED out someone who loved to be a boyscout. ANd now they have the right to continue to do so. So what will be next for them? THey can now kick people out cause they THINK that they are gay, or they act gay.
Yes I agree with the flag burning issue. But If you look at my initial post I did mention "They are thinking still of passing an ammendment to the constitution to prevent 'desicration of the us flag'. (yes this is in congress again) ". This is todays administration. Part fo the administration is democratic. It's stupid reall. DEmocrats / Republicans - I think the US gov is being stupid right now.
Had Clinton or Bush or Congress decided to pass a federal law or add an ammendment to the constitution to prevent discrimination against sexual orientation the Salvation Army, and Boy Scouts would be violating fed law. But they wont. Cause it is okay to discriminate against gays. Oh and look at the results from the US census. There is almost 1/2 million gay couples. This is only the couples, what about the single gay person?
You talk about the will of the people. HOw many states have removed there sodomy laws? How many have offerred domestic partner benifits? LOTS! THE will of the people is soon becoming that gays are normal people with normal rights.
We are everywhere, were here, were queer and we ain't going anywhere! ANDWE WANT OUR RIGHTS!
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"Since the Court is not an elected body, then it is supposedly impartial".
They are appointed. They are appointed by people who feel the same way that they do. So if a supreme court justice leaves who do you think will be appointed to a new position? Someone who woudl be interested in a chance to oerturn roe vs wade or make it against federal law to be gay or something stupid. The administration would appoint he nes justice. So how can you say that they are impartial?
The boy scouts recieve federal money as well as from religious organizations. They were not claiming that it was against their 'religious' beliefs, but against their interpretaion of the boyscout charter, which states that the boyscouts must be 'morally straight'. People confuse morally straight with gay-homosexual/straight.
"The Court said that yes, the Constitution protects the religious views".. no it said First Ammendment Rights, it did not specify which part fo the first ammendment. (http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-699.ZS.html)
This was about freedom of 'expressive association' or allowance for bigotry. I don;t care what you call it they are discriminating! And it is allowed. What if their religion said no african americans allowed or no whites? Would that be okay? Be careful this is defined in the constitution as one of the ammendments.
"It's nice that you have the ability to sit back in a country that was created for you and presented to you and
condemn the very principals that made us what we are", yes sit back and worry that these freedoms that made us free are being taken away. Currently most states have laws against burning the flag. You HAD the right to burn a flag. You HAD the right to..
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Anyone that is discriminated against should be in a protected class, if they are not harming others.
Homosexuality is a consensual act between two adults (or teens in some cases). It is not like pedophelia where one is abused unwillingly or bestiality where one is an animal that does now know what is going on.
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Thank you for pointing out that they are second class citizens in the US.
Oh most states are throwing out there sodomy laws, and the few that do have them many apply to both same sex and opposite sex couples. (not all though).
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With the current goverment in hand I think it is hard to believe that they will care.
Here is why.
First they said, yes M$ has a monoploy, but they are not really planning on doing anything about it. More of a slap on the wrist than anything else.
Next, they ruled that the boyscouts could discriminate against gays, because they are a private organization. (gays are second class citizens in the US now).
Next they ruled that they could discriminate cause they are a religious organization against gays (gays are second class citizens in the US now).
They are thinking still of passing an ammendment to the constitution to prevent 'desicration of the us flag'. (yes this is in congress again) Oh please don't they have better things to do than this? And this will accomplish what? How many flag burnings are there a year to justify this? And so what if they do. It is just a flag! A symbol. It is not like they are defacing the statue of liberty, by spray painting her pink or blue or something.
They have not stepped in even though AT&T and AOL/Time Warner are talking about merging their cable systems (talk about mega crap cable). All the channels you don't want at a price you can't afford.
People always want to blame the gays and lesbians first for ruining our country, but the truth is it is the politicians who don't know s*** about anything that are taking away our freedoms first and letting big companies step all over little people as well.
You have no privacy, you have no rights to freedom, you have no right in your own home. Welcome to America, land of the used to be free....
Yeah I'm pissed off at the state of america.
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I need to get a boot that will explain to my sys admins that changing the/etc/group file and changing group ids is okay to do. Does this cover how to change group ids and add delete and change groups????
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The only issue I have with electronic voting is that it seems like it would be just as susceptable to being rigged as lets say.. chads... While it could be more accurate, it depends on how the austrailians are about implementation.
Implementation->If they do it right then they will be in good shape. If they do it like Bart (Bay Area Rapid Transit) then I think it would work. Bart uses linux in its system and I think Bart is pretty reliable, except for the occasionaly train failure. Bart is a metro transit system. Most of there issues are bad equipment or old equipment. (good implementation) (search google on bart) If they do it like Caltrans (California Transportation) and their implementation of the FastTrak then they are really screwed. FastTrak is a toll booth system that allows you to be auto billed instead of paying at the gate by an electronic reader. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. They only implemented it in a few lanes instead of all. (poor implementation).
In any case I am not familiar with how the austrailians are in their impementation of ideas, but if it is anything like the olympics I think they will be in good shape.
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It would actually be better to install it for the user. Many windows users cannot insatll programs, or if they run into a problem with the intstall they are unhappy.
Personally I'd like to see OEM's include Netscape 6.x the latest and/or mozilla. As well as an option to install Linux. Or maybe offer dual boot systems off the get go and see how many people buy a dual boot. Or offer a trial vmware with other OSes installed. Or even includes some of the software for other apps.
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There are lefthanded mice. Some mice are actually no handed.
Try http://www.thelefthand.com/thelefthand/
I never really thoguth my palm piliot was left or right handed. You can hold it in your right hand and use the stylus, so what is so 'right handed' about it?
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Withthe price of LCD and flat panels coming down, and now this, it will not be to far away until one can buy a touch screen for the home computer at a reasonable price for good quality, and get a good size (think 1 to 2 years 17"+viewable screen).
This will be the 'alternate' input device, where you can use your mouse, your keyboard or put all your grubby little paws over your screen and get nice little oil prints everywhere... totally cool..
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I think this is fitting of them.. 7 days and counting?
Gee if this were.net how much would they loose in lawsuits for lack of business? 7 days of downtime * 1000 employees * 40 hours * salary per employee per hr.. oh * how many compnaies = lots of lost profits for the software mega giant..
yeah! billy is broke!
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I've said that before.. and in some countries you pay to access the internet and wainting for junk email to download costs money. Why should I pay to recieve stuff i don't want?
But this is the 'trend' today. Always an 'opt out' options, but hardly ever an opt in option.... opt out of letting financial institutions from selling your personal info, opt out of recieving telemarketing calls, opt out of spam..
Where are my rights not be disturbed with crap I don't want?
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This is actually a good example of a basic apache module. I wrote a module a while ago and this is what the basic principle looks like. Using this as a template it would make writing apache modules super easy.
It shows how to acces things in the headers_in, and how to write messages. Thus cookies are part of the headers in also, so it would be easey to modify to read the cookies.
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It really pisses me off that again you have to 'opt out' of this crap rather than 'opt in'.
It should be noted that just because this is a new law does not mean that it holds any weight. If someone sews a financial institution for giving this info or selling this info away they can overturn this law. Of course there has to be 'wrongful' damage as well as proof that the company was responsible.
The real question I have is what kind of info do they sell / trade?
So how long do you think it will be before someone decides to pretend to be a financial institution and buys this information to use it for fraudulent purposes like identity theft? Hey in the US if they get your social security number they get your identity nowadays.
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I think this will kill them, especially when people can choose SuSE, debain, RedHat, Slackware, and many other venders that aren't doing that. After all they are not that great a product and they are not in that much demand. Sure they may have a nice installer, but so does Mandrake, and the new Redhat anaconda is pretty nice as well.
What will make someone buy Caldera over some other distro, after they do something like this?
Is there ANY advantage of their version of Linux over lets say Mandrake (or any other)?
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Journaling filesystems are sort of the elite in the business. They're what filesystems like FAT and ext2 want to grow up into. They're also essential for big enterprise server where data integrity is a priority.
The idea behind journal filesystems comes from big databases like Oracle. Database operations quite often include several related and dependent sub-operations. The failure of any one operation means that the entire operation is invalid and any changes made to the database are rolled back. Journal filesystems use a similar system.
A journal log file is maintained on the partition. Filesystem writes are first written to the log file. If a write operation is interrupted due to the machine unexpectedly going down -- power failure, crash -- then at the next boot, the journal log file is read and operations are rolled back. This process takes only a few seconds to few minutes rather than the hours that a `fsck' can possibly take, on larger servers.
For more info on journaling read here -> http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue55/florido.html
GNOME 1.4.x.. ... XFree 4.1.x.. nautulus(sp).. mozilla.. new config tools eventually phazing out linuxconf... easy GUI ISP dial tool..
I am running 7.1 right now and except for a few setup issues it is actually pretty good.
Hopefully they'll put mozill 9.3 in or the latest version of mozilla at the time of release...
Now that I have a super fast computer I am beginning to like mozilla and some of its features of turning off things, like images from certain servers. Maybe someone will implement turning off JS from hostile sites (like mozilla's cookie rejecting) or prompting you for this.
NOTE I am NOT talking about turing off ALL javascript, just allowing users more control over it.
This user may want to try proximitron (sp) it is a proxy that allows you to set up some filters. Thus turing off pop ups and pop back....
"Exclusion does not imply hatred". No? In this case it does. There are some people that hate gays and they exclude them and teach other their hateful ways.
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The message that this sends is that it is okay to hate someone or exclude someone just because they are gay. So where does that end? Hate people or exclude them cause you THINK that they are gay as well? Did you know that may of the current school shootings were by kids that were CALLED gay or queer? So how about a gay bashing goup in school or an anti gay group in school? Hmm we stop nazi's cause they hate more than just gays, they hate jews and blacks as well. So where does the hate end?
This teaches people that gays bad and that it is okay to NOT accept them. Or even worse to be called or thought of as gay is also bad.
"It is the right of the Boy Scouts to set their own agenda".. and it should be the right of public schools and public organizations to prohibit boy scouts and other hate teaching organizations from using their facilities as well, yet the hate mongers think that thay should have to right to hate and spread there hate.
"To impose upon the Boy Scouts a mandate that the gay guy be admitted would be the equivalent to the metaphorical "fist in the face" of which Holmes speaks. ".. and Holmes is a biggot! Plain and simple. To impose upon cities, states and counties that have gay rights laws inacted to accept this is and equal slap to the face. This is flat out discrimination based on what you think a gay person is like. Many cities and counties have enacted anti gay discrimination laws, and if you discriminate against gays it is a violation of this law. Ideally it would be in the constitution right after color, creed, it would say sexual orientation.
If your religion teaches hate then I want no part of it. Maybe someday the boy scouts and other hate organizations will open up their eyes and realize that this is just another form of hate...."
"Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?" Jesus said unto him,"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul , and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment." And the second is like unto it, "Thou shalt love thy neightbor as thyself." Matthew 22:36-39
.. no where does it say except if he is gay, straight, black, white, male, female, or any other exclusion... I bet you call yourself a Christian as well?
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This has nothing to do with hsi friends being stupid. It has to do with getting email from people he does not know, that has attachments.
I got one the other day from someone I don't know. It was a word doc attachment. I'm just glad I use Linux and don't have word or anything loaded on my machine to read that crap.
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In the russian guys case, is he a US citizen? If not he may not be thought of to have any rights in the US.
Persoanlly I think that this is bull crap, but there are large companies involved here and the goverment. Didn't you people ever watch the x files.. people disappear all the time. IN a few months it will be who was that guy?
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I'd have to disagree here. The boyscouts KICKED out someone who loved to be a boyscout. ANd now they have the right to continue to do so. So what will be next for them? THey can now kick people out cause they THINK that they are gay, or they act gay.
Yes I agree with the flag burning issue. But If you look at my initial post I did mention "They are thinking still of passing an ammendment to the constitution to prevent 'desicration of the us flag'. (yes this is in congress again) ". This is todays administration. Part fo the administration is democratic. It's stupid reall. DEmocrats / Republicans - I think the US gov is being stupid right now.
Had Clinton or Bush or Congress decided to pass a federal law or add an ammendment to the constitution to prevent discrimination against sexual orientation the Salvation Army, and Boy Scouts would be violating fed law. But they wont. Cause it is okay to discriminate against gays. Oh and look at the results from the US census. There is almost 1/2 million gay couples. This is only the couples, what about the single gay person?
You talk about the will of the people. HOw many states have removed there sodomy laws? How many have offerred domestic partner benifits? LOTS! THE will of the people is soon becoming that gays are normal people with normal rights.
We are everywhere, were here, were queer and we ain't going anywhere! ANDWE WANT OUR RIGHTS!
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They are appointed. They are appointed by people who feel the same way that they do. So if a supreme court justice leaves who do you think will be appointed to a new position? Someone who woudl be interested in a chance to oerturn roe vs wade or make it against federal law to be gay or something stupid. The administration would appoint he nes justice. So how can you say that they are impartial?
The boy scouts recieve federal money as well as from religious organizations. They were not claiming that it was against their 'religious' beliefs, but against their interpretaion of the boyscout charter, which states that the boyscouts must be 'morally straight'. People confuse morally straight with gay-homosexual/straight.
"The Court said that yes, the Constitution protects the religious views".. no it said First Ammendment Rights, it did not specify which part fo the first ammendment. (http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-699.ZS .html)
This was about freedom of 'expressive association' or allowance for bigotry. I don;t care what you call it they are discriminating! And it is allowed. What if their religion said no african americans allowed or no whites? Would that be okay? Be careful this is defined in the constitution as one of the ammendments.
"It's nice that you have the ability to sit back in a country that was created for you and presented to you and condemn the very principals that made us what we are", yes sit back and worry that these freedoms that made us free are being taken away. Currently most states have laws against burning the flag. You HAD the right to burn a flag. You HAD the right to..
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Homosexuality is a consensual act between two adults (or teens in some cases). It is not like pedophelia where one is abused unwillingly or bestiality where one is an animal that does now know what is going on.
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Oh most states are throwing out there sodomy laws, and the few that do have them many apply to both same sex and opposite sex couples. (not all though).
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Here is why.
First they said, yes M$ has a monoploy, but they are not really planning on doing anything about it. More of a slap on the wrist than anything else.
Next, they ruled that the boyscouts could discriminate against gays, because they are a private organization. (gays are second class citizens in the US now).
Next they ruled that they could discriminate cause they are a religious organization against gays (gays are second class citizens in the US now).
They are thinking still of passing an ammendment to the constitution to prevent 'desicration of the us flag'. (yes this is in congress again) Oh please don't they have better things to do than this? And this will accomplish what? How many flag burnings are there a year to justify this? And so what if they do. It is just a flag! A symbol. It is not like they are defacing the statue of liberty, by spray painting her pink or blue or something.
They have not stepped in even though AT&T and AOL/Time Warner are talking about merging their cable systems (talk about mega crap cable). All the channels you don't want at a price you can't afford.
People always want to blame the gays and lesbians first for ruining our country, but the truth is it is the politicians who don't know s*** about anything that are taking away our freedoms first and letting big companies step all over little people as well.
You have no privacy, you have no rights to freedom, you have no right in your own home. Welcome to America, land of the used to be free....
Yeah I'm pissed off at the state of america.
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The only issue I have with electronic voting is that it seems like it would be just as susceptable to being rigged as lets say.. chads... While it could be more accurate, it depends on how the austrailians are about implementation.
Implementation->If they do it right then they will be in good shape. If they do it like Bart (Bay Area Rapid Transit) then I think it would work. Bart uses linux in its system and I think Bart is pretty reliable, except for the occasionaly train failure. Bart is a metro transit system. Most of there issues are bad equipment or old equipment. (good implementation) (search google on bart) If they do it like Caltrans (California Transportation) and their implementation of the FastTrak then they are really screwed. FastTrak is a toll booth system that allows you to be auto billed instead of paying at the gate by an electronic reader. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. They only implemented it in a few lanes instead of all. (poor implementation).
In any case I am not familiar with how the austrailians are in their impementation of ideas, but if it is anything like the olympics I think they will be in good shape.
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Personally I'd like to see OEM's include Netscape 6.x the latest and/or mozilla. As well as an option to install Linux. Or maybe offer dual boot systems off the get go and see how many people buy a dual boot. Or offer a trial vmware with other OSes installed. Or even includes some of the software for other apps.
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Try http://www.thelefthand.com/thelefthand/
I never really thoguth my palm piliot was left or right handed. You can hold it in your right hand and use the stylus, so what is so 'right handed' about it?
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This will be the 'alternate' input device, where you can use your mouse, your keyboard or put all your grubby little paws over your screen and get nice little oil prints everywhere ... totally cool..
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Gee if this were .net how much would they loose in lawsuits for lack of business? 7 days of downtime * 1000 employees * 40 hours * salary per employee per hr.. oh * how many compnaies = lots of lost profits for the software mega giant..
yeah! billy is broke!
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But this is the 'trend' today. Always an 'opt out' options, but hardly ever an opt in option. ... opt out of letting financial institutions from selling your personal info, opt out of recieving telemarketing calls, opt out of spam..
Where are my rights not be disturbed with crap I don't want?
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It shows how to acces things in the headers_in, and how to write messages. Thus cookies are part of the headers in also, so it would be easey to modify to read the cookies.
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Wells Fargo...
And I think another bank I have an account at.
It really pisses me off that again you have to 'opt out' of this crap rather than 'opt in'.
It should be noted that just because this is a new law does not mean that it holds any weight. If someone sews a financial institution for giving this info or selling this info away they can overturn this law. Of course there has to be 'wrongful' damage as well as proof that the company was responsible.
The real question I have is what kind of info do they sell / trade?
So how long do you think it will be before someone decides to pretend to be a financial institution and buys this information to use it for fraudulent purposes like identity theft? Hey in the US if they get your social security number they get your identity nowadays.
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What will make someone buy Caldera over some other distro, after they do something like this?
Is there ANY advantage of their version of Linux over lets say Mandrake (or any other)?
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