On what sort of legal/copyright grounds (this time) would cause the shutdown of Pandora outside the U.S.? I thought the whole beauty and logical design of Pandora to make the streaming legit was the idea of the played music being based on the donated full, legit, and tangible music CDs they received from the community or public domain?
I guess long live free recreational drug use in Europe; just won't be able to stream Paul Oakenfold anymore while doing it.
$40 seems steep, but the size of the hard drive wasn't even list ITFA, and there was definite intent and motive to go find some secret government/contractor data on a piece of computer hardware, too, by the journalists themselves. So it's evident price or need of a hard drive wasn't an issue. With dumpster diving and shady data mining practices that have been at least publicly practiced over the last decade quite over announced, have people not learned to wipe the data on their storage devices? I pitty the "outside" company who is suppose to be in charge of doing that (or so NG claims).
At work, it's kind of a break from the pace to sit down with a bunch of servers, and let DOI standard wipe policy chug away. It's not like you have to constantly monitor it; should be one of the easiest things do to on the side.
What did 'Clear' really accomplish other than making another specialty line for others to stand in? Even so, all Clear really confirms for me is that if you happen to have a name that easily gets associated with a terrorist on "The Watch List", then this is all that it will circumvent.
Other things like making sure you booked your flight with the same name as what is on your drivers license, making sure you have all your electronic devices pulled out of their cas(es), have no liquids over 2-3oz with you and plenty of other and anything else is pretty general as far as flying and airport rules are concerned. I'd say piss poor planning or TTR-VIP (Think They Are a Very Important Person) syndrome has a lot to do with people's woes at the airport.
This whole 'mobile-portable' computing movement is a ridiculous marketing blackhole, IMHO. My ultimate concern with any laptop I've owned over the last 10+ years has been weight, performance, battery life and usability. Like the majority, I could care less about how 'thin' my mobile computing device is, and without being contradicting with my concern about weight, not having a bit of depth to the device would make any type of the most basic computing skills (e.g. using the touchpad mouse or typing) on your lap, sitting in a chair or at a table kind of difficult without a bit of vertical depth to rest your hands on. Apple Airbook and it's PC competitors just never felt all that comfortable to be to begin with. I bought into the netbook hype and I really it's design purpose driven around portability. Not so sure I'll be doing this time around.
What seems was "Ultra-small, portable netbooks for $199" last year, will be this years "Ultra-thin laptops for $500". This is almost like a hot super model debate.
That's definitely a very 'grey' area for invasion of privacy, however, it's a double-edged sword. I would definitely not ever hand out any of my personal login credentials to anyone regardless of some baseless attempt to poke into my personal life, but when you get down to it, I don't have anything hiding under a secret, social internet rug, either.
It's a good ideas to weed out potential douche bags with less than a shake of common sense not to plaster their beer drinking photos all over public internet mediums, however, if it doesn't impact their daily job performance at work, I say let them make all the fools of themselves online as they want, but the day it impacts them at the work place, hit them with the pink slip.
Besides, doesn't the 90-day probationary period most employment places have pretty much handle this already? It won't give them a Facebook/MySpace/whatever account, but why need an excuse to fire a bad employee? So, you make a bad hiring decision as a company/manager/boss, simply repremand or fire, learn from your mistake and move on and get better at your interviewing skills.
Thanks marklar1. Whomever tagged 'Troll' is a flame wagon or Bill Gates, himself.
Hence why I don't use WMC for my HTPC needs. Too dependent on M$ wanting to make more capital on things that should be considered into services packs or hotfixes.
This is no different than any other bug/issue that M$ faced, but at least the OSS community (e.g. mythTV, what I use) doesn't attribute to their way of fixes and approaches.
What broke in Windows Media Center isn't what I call a bug that needs to be fixed... Microsoft will make that "fix" an "enhanced feature" that only users who purchase or upgrade to Windows 7 Home Ultra-Premium-Enhanced-Elite-Super-Ultimate Edition.
Chalk one up for Intel and Linux kernel OSS support! IMHO, a big milestone in the fact that Linux kernel development is always teetering on the bleeding edge. This isn't going to change much for the novice user unless distro's do their part and package in the kernel support for it, but for the more savvy users and testers, it's going to help USB 3.0 mature very quickly and get the bugs worked out faster. I dig it.
Sounds like the US and France better call up Charles Whitmore or Benjamin Linus and start asking about "the island"... can anyone say "Oceanic Flight 815" Take 2.
At the gov't facility I work at, we back up everything to prepare for any bare-metal recovery using EMC's Legato Networker; it's expensive, but it works, and tax dollars pay for it. Just depends on your environment, and technological and idealogical approach I guess. Since we do regular, monthly full-server offsites, nightly incrementals and any mission critical data (that's in the hundreds of terrbytes) we have ship it to another computer room which houses a STK tape silo for long-term archive, I've never had the need to use data analysis/recovery tools because just doing regular backups have a 99.9% retention for us to get back anything we want. And it's not just small talk; our datacenter has a UPS backup power failure and took out a few critical servers, one being our operational Oracle database server. With the DBAs cold backups and our bare-metal recovery to repair the awry ext3 filesystem, we had zero data loss other than what wasn't commited journaling and database wise with the power outage hit.
A lot of people said it on here; if you back up your important stuff and keep up with the cycle, there should be no question that getting what you need back that has great importance should be anything less than a trivial, minute manner.
Agreed. It's a shame he didn't get more rights for Tetris, but I'd say, as a whole, despite the shortcomings with Tetris, he's been pretty well taken care of by the 'Big 2' gaming/computing companies (e.g. Micro$oft and Nintendo); I think he even works for Microsoft (and might still now) doing game design. He's done lots of work on other Nintendo games I know of, too. Happy B-day Tetris. Thanks to you, I'll never throw away my 8-bit NES... ever.
I actually have planted rhubarb many times in my life and may I ask why in THE HELL your old man used a bulldozer to plant rhubarb? You guys 'bored' on the farm and need to find a reason to bring out the big toys to play?
Agreed. IMHO, standards like that just piss off end-users and just for making it a mess, I'd like to see it fail. But it makes marketing schemes riun rampid. Can't wait to see what type of fluff the Best Buy TV sales croanies will blow up my ass when ths hits the masses... I'm sure I'll be asked to buy the super-duper-gold-monster-goliath-mega-enhanced HDMI 1.4 cable/
There needs to be more Steve Chamberlin's in the world. Personal (or enterprise, for that matter) computing hardware has hit a mass exploitation mark; computers today have such an abundance of resources, storage and processing power, any developer I've had to work with in the last half of decade sees the computer, much like Steve mentioned in TFA, as "...like black boxes... and understand what they do, but not how they do it." which leads to blatant disregard for anything, really sloppy ways of coding and development, zero ideology or best practice on how to truly harness and control resources efficiently. I don't expect anyone to have a physics background or be some die-hard electrical engineer, but there's definitely something to be said for growing up and working with early computer models where you had to give two shakes about that stuff.
This is very cool, indeed.
Umm, because most of the rest of us aren't soulless twats?
Oh is someone bitter because they hold a baseless meaningless title of biggest douche sack and want to make sure their purpose on Earth is not trivial?
Toilet plunge my karma, but why is this a/. headliner? Only light that is coming out of this is at least some early 20th century folk have melded into and use technology, as far as the statistic... who cares.
If our country/leaders could keep a secret about anything it would be the greatest miracle EVER. I don't see Jesus being threatened in the 'miracle' category on this one...
...yet another target for Al qaeda to pin a 'red' tack onto.
I was deployed in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 during the Fallujah and the Al Sadr battles in Najaf later that summer of 2004. Now, I personally am not a 'war' anything fan in the sense that I steer clear of video games or any movies/TV/news depictions. I don't care to drown myself in that mess and my level of empathy for people who didn't come back from that shithole will always toll over anything that tries to depict it otherwise.
Anything coming out the video game is going to be skewed, one-sided unlimited ammo shootout against insurgents. Is it really going depict the other facets of war: mental struggle, anguish, sadness, loss of life, sleep deprivation, pain, etc.
Lets not forget a part of the war that I'm sure won't be in the game if it ever happens: the bodies of the contractors hung over the bridge or the self-less heroism of Marines/Army personnel dying to save a captured or injured friend and the many soldiers who died during that as well.
So what is Avism did have backups, restored their system(s) and got everything back online. If they didn't do any amount of forensic analysis or even have a good idea how they got hacked, I wouldn't, as a sysadmin OR a company, mind you, would want to even come back online until they get their security issues addressed...
Otherwise, you're just setting yourself up for failure. Chances are either the same person(s) will do it again or the attacker(s) I'm sure divulged (bragged) about how they were able to pull it off.
110% agreed with caveats. With Avism's popularity, there's always a higher risk of malacious activity and intrusion attempts and if you're just backing up between two servers, I pitty the fool (e.g. manager) who decided that, operationally, that was sufficient.
Any solution would have been better than online mirroring or whatever half-ass attempt they were doing.
Comments from posts saying, "storage and burnable media is so cheap, *at least* you could have done.." holds true at a certain point. For the server's OS, sure. As for their '13 years of data', I can tell you that might be a slightly larger feat, especially if it's in the in the upper 10's of terrabytes range. Maybe storing in that type of newbie manner would work for a one-time or a point-in-time solution, but not every month or quarterly; SUPER time consuming, not to mention over time, the amount of storage space you'll need to put it in. Again, who's to say it's even that much data considering they were just backing between two stand-alone servers.
It's all speculation that/.'ers are going to exhaust exponentially.
Too bad. P(iss)P(oor)P(lanning) at it's best.
About a decade+ ago, a friend of mine in college gave me a Gateway Handbook and I still own it to this day. I upgraded the RAM to 24mb and put in a 1GB hard drive in it and whatever Linux distro I had around at the time. It was definitely usable when I was in college to take notes on, but using as a daily application for my life is where it failed; 802.11b was *just* emerging and playing Doom on it during class quickly tired.
It's comical to see how laptop industry flops back on itself (much how fashion has went back to calling 80's straight leg pants and moon boots the new 'in'). I remember when all the hype a few years ago surrounded the netbook. It's cool, don't get me wrong (and I do own a Acer Aspire ZG5), but definitely not a new idea. Just a regurgitation of what failed the first time around because there wasn't enough technology infrastructure to support it (e.g. wi-fi, internet for the masses, etc.)
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Well you better put every pawn shop out of business then.
On what sort of legal/copyright grounds (this time) would cause the shutdown of Pandora outside the U.S.? I thought the whole beauty and logical design of Pandora to make the streaming legit was the idea of the played music being based on the donated full, legit, and tangible music CDs they received from the community or public domain? I guess long live free recreational drug use in Europe; just won't be able to stream Paul Oakenfold anymore while doing it.
Weeeeeeeee Oooooooooooo Weeeeeeeeeeee Oooooooooooo! Excellent.
Was this suppose to be a post on 'The Onion' ? Maybe an editor was 'high' and posted on the wrong site...
$40 seems steep, but the size of the hard drive wasn't even list ITFA, and there was definite intent and motive to go find some secret government/contractor data on a piece of computer hardware, too, by the journalists themselves. So it's evident price or need of a hard drive wasn't an issue. With dumpster diving and shady data mining practices that have been at least publicly practiced over the last decade quite over announced, have people not learned to wipe the data on their storage devices? I pitty the "outside" company who is suppose to be in charge of doing that (or so NG claims). At work, it's kind of a break from the pace to sit down with a bunch of servers, and let DOI standard wipe policy chug away. It's not like you have to constantly monitor it; should be one of the easiest things do to on the side.
What did 'Clear' really accomplish other than making another specialty line for others to stand in? Even so, all Clear really confirms for me is that if you happen to have a name that easily gets associated with a terrorist on "The Watch List", then this is all that it will circumvent. Other things like making sure you booked your flight with the same name as what is on your drivers license, making sure you have all your electronic devices pulled out of their cas(es), have no liquids over 2-3oz with you and plenty of other and anything else is pretty general as far as flying and airport rules are concerned. I'd say piss poor planning or TTR-VIP (Think They Are a Very Important Person) syndrome has a lot to do with people's woes at the airport.
This whole 'mobile-portable' computing movement is a ridiculous marketing blackhole, IMHO. My ultimate concern with any laptop I've owned over the last 10+ years has been weight, performance, battery life and usability. Like the majority, I could care less about how 'thin' my mobile computing device is, and without being contradicting with my concern about weight, not having a bit of depth to the device would make any type of the most basic computing skills (e.g. using the touchpad mouse or typing) on your lap, sitting in a chair or at a table kind of difficult without a bit of vertical depth to rest your hands on. Apple Airbook and it's PC competitors just never felt all that comfortable to be to begin with. I bought into the netbook hype and I really it's design purpose driven around portability. Not so sure I'll be doing this time around. What seems was "Ultra-small, portable netbooks for $199" last year, will be this years "Ultra-thin laptops for $500". This is almost like a hot super model debate.
That's definitely a very 'grey' area for invasion of privacy, however, it's a double-edged sword. I would definitely not ever hand out any of my personal login credentials to anyone regardless of some baseless attempt to poke into my personal life, but when you get down to it, I don't have anything hiding under a secret, social internet rug, either. It's a good ideas to weed out potential douche bags with less than a shake of common sense not to plaster their beer drinking photos all over public internet mediums, however, if it doesn't impact their daily job performance at work, I say let them make all the fools of themselves online as they want, but the day it impacts them at the work place, hit them with the pink slip. Besides, doesn't the 90-day probationary period most employment places have pretty much handle this already? It won't give them a Facebook/MySpace/whatever account, but why need an excuse to fire a bad employee? So, you make a bad hiring decision as a company/manager/boss, simply repremand or fire, learn from your mistake and move on and get better at your interviewing skills.
Thanks marklar1. Whomever tagged 'Troll' is a flame wagon or Bill Gates, himself. Hence why I don't use WMC for my HTPC needs. Too dependent on M$ wanting to make more capital on things that should be considered into services packs or hotfixes. This is no different than any other bug/issue that M$ faced, but at least the OSS community (e.g. mythTV, what I use) doesn't attribute to their way of fixes and approaches.
What broke in Windows Media Center isn't what I call a bug that needs to be fixed... Microsoft will make that "fix" an "enhanced feature" that only users who purchase or upgrade to Windows 7 Home Ultra-Premium-Enhanced-Elite-Super-Ultimate Edition.
Chalk one up for Intel and Linux kernel OSS support! IMHO, a big milestone in the fact that Linux kernel development is always teetering on the bleeding edge. This isn't going to change much for the novice user unless distro's do their part and package in the kernel support for it, but for the more savvy users and testers, it's going to help USB 3.0 mature very quickly and get the bugs worked out faster. I dig it.
Sounds like the US and France better call up Charles Whitmore or Benjamin Linus and start asking about "the island"... can anyone say "Oceanic Flight 815" Take 2.
At the gov't facility I work at, we back up everything to prepare for any bare-metal recovery using EMC's Legato Networker; it's expensive, but it works, and tax dollars pay for it. Just depends on your environment, and technological and idealogical approach I guess. Since we do regular, monthly full-server offsites, nightly incrementals and any mission critical data (that's in the hundreds of terrbytes) we have ship it to another computer room which houses a STK tape silo for long-term archive, I've never had the need to use data analysis/recovery tools because just doing regular backups have a 99.9% retention for us to get back anything we want. And it's not just small talk; our datacenter has a UPS backup power failure and took out a few critical servers, one being our operational Oracle database server. With the DBAs cold backups and our bare-metal recovery to repair the awry ext3 filesystem, we had zero data loss other than what wasn't commited journaling and database wise with the power outage hit. A lot of people said it on here; if you back up your important stuff and keep up with the cycle, there should be no question that getting what you need back that has great importance should be anything less than a trivial, minute manner.
Agreed. It's a shame he didn't get more rights for Tetris, but I'd say, as a whole, despite the shortcomings with Tetris, he's been pretty well taken care of by the 'Big 2' gaming/computing companies (e.g. Micro$oft and Nintendo); I think he even works for Microsoft (and might still now) doing game design. He's done lots of work on other Nintendo games I know of, too. Happy B-day Tetris. Thanks to you, I'll never throw away my 8-bit NES... ever.
I actually have planted rhubarb many times in my life and may I ask why in THE HELL your old man used a bulldozer to plant rhubarb? You guys 'bored' on the farm and need to find a reason to bring out the big toys to play?
Agreed. IMHO, standards like that just piss off end-users and just for making it a mess, I'd like to see it fail. But it makes marketing schemes riun rampid. Can't wait to see what type of fluff the Best Buy TV sales croanies will blow up my ass when ths hits the masses... I'm sure I'll be asked to buy the super-duper-gold-monster-goliath-mega-enhanced HDMI 1.4 cable/
There needs to be more Steve Chamberlin's in the world. Personal (or enterprise, for that matter) computing hardware has hit a mass exploitation mark; computers today have such an abundance of resources, storage and processing power, any developer I've had to work with in the last half of decade sees the computer, much like Steve mentioned in TFA, as "...like black boxes... and understand what they do, but not how they do it." which leads to blatant disregard for anything, really sloppy ways of coding and development, zero ideology or best practice on how to truly harness and control resources efficiently. I don't expect anyone to have a physics background or be some die-hard electrical engineer, but there's definitely something to be said for growing up and working with early computer models where you had to give two shakes about that stuff. This is very cool, indeed.
Oh is someone bitter because they hold a baseless meaningless title of biggest douche sack and want to make sure their purpose on Earth is not trivial?
Toilet plunge my karma, but why is this a /. headliner? Only light that is coming out of this is at least some early 20th century folk have melded into and use technology, as far as the statistic... who cares.
Jurassic Amoeba... coming to theaters everywhere Summer 2009. ...it's not the veloci-raptor this time, it's the fearsome mitosis!
If our country/leaders could keep a secret about anything it would be the greatest miracle EVER. I don't see Jesus being threatened in the 'miracle' category on this one...
...yet another target for Al qaeda to pin a 'red' tack onto.
I was deployed in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 during the Fallujah and the Al Sadr battles in Najaf later that summer of 2004. Now, I personally am not a 'war' anything fan in the sense that I steer clear of video games or any movies/TV/news depictions. I don't care to drown myself in that mess and my level of empathy for people who didn't come back from that shithole will always toll over anything that tries to depict it otherwise. Anything coming out the video game is going to be skewed, one-sided unlimited ammo shootout against insurgents. Is it really going depict the other facets of war: mental struggle, anguish, sadness, loss of life, sleep deprivation, pain, etc. Lets not forget a part of the war that I'm sure won't be in the game if it ever happens: the bodies of the contractors hung over the bridge or the self-less heroism of Marines/Army personnel dying to save a captured or injured friend and the many soldiers who died during that as well.
So what is Avism did have backups, restored their system(s) and got everything back online. If they didn't do any amount of forensic analysis or even have a good idea how they got hacked, I wouldn't, as a sysadmin OR a company, mind you, would want to even come back online until they get their security issues addressed... Otherwise, you're just setting yourself up for failure. Chances are either the same person(s) will do it again or the attacker(s) I'm sure divulged (bragged) about how they were able to pull it off.
110% agreed with caveats. With Avism's popularity, there's always a higher risk of malacious activity and intrusion attempts and if you're just backing up between two servers, I pitty the fool (e.g. manager) who decided that, operationally, that was sufficient. Any solution would have been better than online mirroring or whatever half-ass attempt they were doing. Comments from posts saying, "storage and burnable media is so cheap, *at least* you could have done.." holds true at a certain point. For the server's OS, sure. As for their '13 years of data', I can tell you that might be a slightly larger feat, especially if it's in the in the upper 10's of terrabytes range. Maybe storing in that type of newbie manner would work for a one-time or a point-in-time solution, but not every month or quarterly; SUPER time consuming, not to mention over time, the amount of storage space you'll need to put it in. Again, who's to say it's even that much data considering they were just backing between two stand-alone servers. It's all speculation that /.'ers are going to exhaust exponentially.
Too bad. P(iss)P(oor)P(lanning) at it's best.
About a decade+ ago, a friend of mine in college gave me a Gateway Handbook and I still own it to this day. I upgraded the RAM to 24mb and put in a 1GB hard drive in it and whatever Linux distro I had around at the time. It was definitely usable when I was in college to take notes on, but using as a daily application for my life is where it failed; 802.11b was *just* emerging and playing Doom on it during class quickly tired. It's comical to see how laptop industry flops back on itself (much how fashion has went back to calling 80's straight leg pants and moon boots the new 'in'). I remember when all the hype a few years ago surrounded the netbook. It's cool, don't get me wrong (and I do own a Acer Aspire ZG5), but definitely not a new idea. Just a regurgitation of what failed the first time around because there wasn't enough technology infrastructure to support it (e.g. wi-fi, internet for the masses, etc.)