Were I coding this patch, for example, the IPs for which to return NXDOMAIN would be specified in a config. That config would be able to take single IPs and also ranges.
That's what I was hoping the patch would do as well, since it's only a futher hack on the part of Verisign to wildcard the entire DNS transaction, although I think from a maintenance standpoint the patch is probably cleaner since you're not having to maintain a list of IPs. But even a list of IPs has a mitigation factor, since their lame sitefinder service would be tough to move around on IPs alot if it is expected to be reliable.
Yes, it is only state law, but most marijuana posession isn't a federal offense because it doesn't involve interstate transportation or federal property, rendering the federal law moot.
And then there's local enforcement. The cop on my block says that he has to bust somebody with over a 1/4 lb of marijuana before the DA will even look at the case, and there are a number of municipaliities (often college towns), where getting busted means confiscation and a $10 fine. I'd wager that there's a lot of places where getting busted is confiscation and a browbeating by the cops, and I know people who have been busted who just get half their stash lifted!
Ironically, I found this news article panning Health Canada's official dope supply for ill people.
What's even funnier is that some company has a $7 million contract to supply them with it! As I read the article, I wondered how they do quality control -- just lab tests for delta-9 THC, or do they actually give samples to people to try? I'm sure its all BS lab tests and some rocket scientist is trying to mix/blend it to average out the potency.
Are they that lax? When I looked into the recent publicity campaign surrounding the new decriminalization laws, it didn't sound all that lax to me, merely becoming what many American states have now.
Where I live, around 42 grams (1.5 oz) is considered a petty misdemeanor and the Canadian law didn't seem much if any better than that.
From the hype, it made is sound like Canada was doing Dutch-style decriminalization, which would be awesome, especially since I live ~3 hours from the border. Plus it would be chaos for the American drug control people, since it would likely flood the US with dope.
Very nearly the same performance numbers and probably a better drive than the 959. Not as "exclusive", but at $130k, I don't see too many of them anyway.
And it's not like Gates or Lauren actually *drive* ANYWHERE very much, they're likely driven in limos or something. I have a hard time believing any of them including Allen is going to jump in the 959 and drive anywhere.
And if they absolutely had to have a 959 and they have the money, why not simply buy a sacrificial GT2 or GT3, import the 959 as parts, re-assemble it in the US and register it under the GT2/3 VIN number?
Or just bring it in as parts and register it as a home-built vehicle? Surely the zillions of rod-n-custom cars out there that are essentially built from scratch and driven on the street have some loophole or other for registration as a custom vehicle -- they can't all be registered under a junkers VIN.
It's not that there aren't many challenging disciplines in business or that IT people are so much smarter than everyone else. It's the arbitrary valuation of the many disciplines by management that seems to hold marketing as the sine qua non of the business world, and everything else is down below there someplace.
If you read between the lines, it's not about the money. It's about business busting the balls of skilled workers. We were scarce, expensive, and worth our weight in gold. We had them over the back of a barrel, and they knew it.
It seems conspiratorial, but I can't help believe it. I had a debate with my wife (who is a high-level marketing exec) about the wages of engineers vs. marketing staff, who ultimately end up dominating corporate management. The crux of her argument came down to: engineering salaries should never be more than marketing salaries, as marketing is "more important" than engineering -- never mind that without engineering you wouldn't have products to market, or with shoddy engineering you're working harder to sell shoddy products.
I think this cultural aspect is quite telling, and I think there are a lot of "suits" who think the same way. Whether or not IT salaries during the dot-bomb era were too high for economic reasons is immaterial, they had become too high for socio-cultural reasons ("Why is the IT guy driving a better BMW than ME?!?!"), and rather than see their businesses dominated by IT people, they sought to "control" this phenomenon by various means -- outsourcing, H1-Bs, lower quality packaged software, and so on.
The cultural explanation may not be the only reason, but I think its a significant one.
I had a cell phone experience in a hospital. Mom was in intensive care, and I was standing by her bed which was directly accross a hallway from a nurse's station.
Mom had been in intensive care less than 24 hours, and myself and my dad were getting tons of calls about her status. As I'm standing there talking to my wife, a doctor is on his cell phone at the nurse's station. My phone rang and I answered it (a relative calling to ask about mom), and the nurse walked up to berate me for using a cell phone (which were "banned" according to some signage).
I pointed to the doctor on his cell phone and told her that unless she wanted to discuss the cell phone policy and its enforcement with me, the hospital administration, the news media and my attorney, she should stop bothering me and care for patients.
I don't mind a policy, but I will not follow one that isn't universally enforced.
The way I've read it, I don't see how the open standard couldn't still be implemented in an open source settop box or tuner; the only place it wouldn't be open source would be inside the smart card.
Although it's likely that there would be some requirements ala DVD for ensuring that whatever copy protection schemes are supposed to be implemented get implemented.
...it doesn't matter what you submit, the goal is having the longest and most provocative comment on the Slashdot main page. Extra credit is given for extended rants on continuations the story page, but at a lesser rate than for comments on the main page.
Slashdot Warlording would be an amusing thesis paper subject for someone trying to kill some sociology credits.
If I walked down the street and cornered people and asked them to give me money, would that be illegal? Especially if I essentially ignored their refusals and became rude, aggressive and demanding?
I'd wager that at minimum they'd bust you for agressive panhandling, perhaps someone might even stretch it into a form of mugging or robbery.
And this is exactly what telemarketers do. On the street, the more aggressive and strong-willed people would walk away or otherwise rebuke them and walk away, but I'd bet that the same people who are bullied into buying from telemarketers would fork over money to someone just demanding it on the street.
What amazes me is why the media doesn't spend more time and effort exposing this "sales technique" for what it is. Surprisingly most articles on DNC lists focus on the "irritation" of the calls, or worse, the untold damage to be done to our economy through the loss of telemarketing jobs. None of them seem to focus on the decepetion, bullying and probably outright fraud associated with telemarketing.
In my mind is inextricably linked to the same business ethos that fueled Enron, WorldCom and host of other "lying your way to wealth" business models that seem to have prospered.
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Bzzt wrong answer.
You can make a bootable DVD-ROM, I've done it, and booted a number of systems with DVD-Rs. We migrated a number of our system imaging CDs (which with Win2k were spanned) onto DVD-Rs, and its almost like the good ol' Win95 days again; multiple system images on a single bootable DVD-R.
We can realistically only fit about 3 of the newest images (which are pigged out with every application the desktop support crew can think of adding), but it kind of rox0rs, as kids are fond of saying these days.
The round hole is HTTP, and the square peg is the notion that a web site is a video or movie, an animated entity, an event-driven application, interactive somethingorother, or any of the other things it really isn't.
Where I work they put someone in charge of our web site who has done video production, and lo and behold, she wanted to make the web site into a video. She eventually got her way, and a zillion bytes of flash later, the site sucks to look at, is hard to navigate and they bitch that they can't tell what people are looking at from site reports since...it's all a huge flash "application".
Unfortunately it almost does the right thing. Instead of each desktop appearing to be on the outside of a shape, the desktops should be on the INSIDE of a multi-sided spherical shape.
That way you could "back up" to see multiple desktops arrayed adjacent to each other, which in itself would be more meaingful if the surfaces of the spherical shape fit some multiple of desktops (like 4).
No, actually I was thinking of printing on the paper at a high resolution with those bar-code characters that look like dot arrays.
At 600 dpi you could fit 75k 256 bit dot arrays on a 8x11 sheet of paper. If the arrays used 16 bits per array for redundancy, you have 30 bytes of information per array or around 2.1 megs of data per single-sided sheet. A ream of paper is 500 sheets, so you'd have a gig per ream. Assuming it holds compressed data @ 4:1, you've got 4 gigs in a ream of paper.
I'd imagine that color inks could increase the data capacity by at least a factor of four, so now we're talking 8 gigs of data in the space of a ream of paper. Assuming good storage and reasonable handling, and you have a high capacity archival storage system with a known lifetime of centuries.
I never said that, and such rhetoric on your part is neither more honest or justifiable than their actions.
I certainly don't expect everyone to care about their job, that's just not realistic, though a smaller company can shoot for that and hit a good majority. But only the lamest or most gullible employees hang around an operation like SCO.
OK, well, imagine this scenrio. Your job at SCO is as a newly promoted leader in a development group, which came with a good salary increase. Your wife just had her second child, who happened to be born with Down Syndrome. She has been fortunate enough to be allowed to take an extended leave of absence from her job to care for this child, but its unpaid. You have a car payment and a mortgage payment.
Now, is this employee "lame and gullible" for staying at a job he most certainly needs? Yes, SCO is involved in "extortion" but it's also an IP business strategy that goes on transparent to many employees at a lot of companies, and, furthermore, show me ONE "community member" who thinks SCOs claims are valid or that if they are shown to be valid, don't represent a teensy snippet of code that could be re-engineered in a weekend.
Now, would you consider hiring that person if you knew about that background, or are you insisting on using neo-political absolutist standards?
All jobs have a negative element associated with them, whether the company is polluting the environment, selling something unsafe or unhealthy, lying to customers, and on and on and on. Even jobs like working at a nonprofit giving away stuff to poor people could potentially be construed as bad -- you're enabling a lack of self-sufficiency.
At that point, no one's job is innocent except for the person who lives by themselves and farms organically.
I don't know about you, but quitting your job in a bad overall economy and a truly horseshit IT economy can seriously endanger the well-being and stability of one's home and family.
As much as I think SCO is a bad company and what they're doing is reprehensible, do you really think that someone should risk their home and family over it?
I might be inclined to do it if I was literally fighting for my community against some real threat (ie, armed invasion or military coup d'etat), but over the SCO/Linux debacle?
I think you have to have a serious lack of perspective if you think that committing economic suicide over SCO is the right thing to do.
Is there any reason you couldn't design a "book" that would actaully be a machine-readable optically scanned card deck. You'd get the advantages of a durable paper stock, and the decks could be bound in such a way that they could be mechnically unbound, read, and returned in the way similar to a tape library.
I'm not sure what kind of data density you could get, though, although I suspect it would be slightly more than you might think. It creates a storage problem, but then it has great durability, and the machine to read it would arguably be easier to re-make in the future than the ones used to read traditional optical media, since you could include a card in each deck explaining in human terms how the deck is encoded.
Desipte the PC radar reading you're having, in many European countries gypsies are a major pain in the ass, from a lying and stealing perspective -- which is why they still get shit on by most European police departments.
It's not an issue as much in the US, since we don't have Roma gypsy populations like they do in Europe (especially Eastern Europe). But we have had run-ins with "Irish Travelers" in the US who usually perpetrate a lot of common scams.
It's not like someone dreams these nasty things to say about other people up just to be nasty, they often have a very accurate basis in reality. Of course, this isn't PC to admit, but it is true.
I wonder how many people want to do research on something non-military related, find that the easiest money is military-related, and then claim some kind of bogus "dual use" application just to get the.mil money?
I periodically peek at the MythTV site, and it strikes me that the biggest obstacle to Myth TV is the apalling small list of reliable, inexpensive MPEG hardware on PCs and the fairly bad support that does exist has for Myth TV functionality (tuners, TV in and out, MPEG hardware capture) under Linux.
Somebody (and NOT Hauppage) needs to make an inexpensive MPEG2/tuner card with:
DVD-compatible MPEG2 capture and playback at various bitrates
MPEG2 engine usable for accelerating video file conversion to MPEG2 in at least real time
At least 4 inputs, including two with component connectors
At least 4 outputs, including two with component connectors
Support for 16:9 ratios
Under $300, no proprietary codecs.
I say not Hauppage (hodge-podge as my friends and I call it), because I've owned the PVR-350 and suxored big time. I had to get "beta" drivers from support to get it to work at all; MPEG playback and recording, which was supposed to be hardware accelerated, dragged my system (a PIII-933 Dell) to an unusable crawl; their MPEG2 files were NOT compatible with the generic DVD MPEG2 codec.
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Were I coding this patch, for example, the IPs for which to return NXDOMAIN would be specified in a config. That config would be able to take single IPs and also ranges.
That's what I was hoping the patch would do as well, since it's only a futher hack on the part of Verisign to wildcard the entire DNS transaction, although I think from a maintenance standpoint the patch is probably cleaner since you're not having to maintain a list of IPs. But even a list of IPs has a mitigation factor, since their lame sitefinder service would be tough to move around on IPs alot if it is expected to be reliable.
Yes, it is only state law, but most marijuana posession isn't a federal offense because it doesn't involve interstate transportation or federal property, rendering the federal law moot.
And then there's local enforcement. The cop on my block says that he has to bust somebody with over a 1/4 lb of marijuana before the DA will even look at the case, and there are a number of municipaliities (often college towns), where getting busted means confiscation and a $10 fine. I'd wager that there's a lot of places where getting busted is confiscation and a browbeating by the cops, and I know people who have been busted who just get half their stash lifted!
Ironically, I found this news article panning Health Canada's official dope supply for ill people. What's even funnier is that some company has a $7 million contract to supply them with it! As I read the article, I wondered how they do quality control -- just lab tests for delta-9 THC, or do they actually give samples to people to try? I'm sure its all BS lab tests and some rocket scientist is trying to mix/blend it to average out the potency.
Are they that lax? When I looked into the recent publicity campaign surrounding the new decriminalization laws, it didn't sound all that lax to me, merely becoming what many American states have now.
Where I live, around 42 grams (1.5 oz) is considered a petty misdemeanor and the Canadian law didn't seem much if any better than that.
From the hype, it made is sound like Canada was doing Dutch-style decriminalization, which would be awesome, especially since I live ~3 hours from the border. Plus it would be chaos for the American drug control people, since it would likely flood the US with dope.
Very nearly the same performance numbers and probably a better drive than the 959. Not as "exclusive", but at $130k, I don't see too many of them anyway.
And it's not like Gates or Lauren actually *drive* ANYWHERE very much, they're likely driven in limos or something. I have a hard time believing any of them including Allen is going to jump in the 959 and drive anywhere.
And if they absolutely had to have a 959 and they have the money, why not simply buy a sacrificial GT2 or GT3, import the 959 as parts, re-assemble it in the US and register it under the GT2/3 VIN number?
Or just bring it in as parts and register it as a home-built vehicle? Surely the zillions of rod-n-custom cars out there that are essentially built from scratch and driven on the street have some loophole or other for registration as a custom vehicle -- they can't all be registered under a junkers VIN.
It's not that there aren't many challenging disciplines in business or that IT people are so much smarter than everyone else. It's the arbitrary valuation of the many disciplines by management that seems to hold marketing as the sine qua non of the business world, and everything else is down below there someplace.
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Competing is fine, but I can't compete on wages. You can't live with any dignity in the US on $8k/year.
If you read between the lines, it's not about the money. It's about business busting the balls of skilled workers. We were scarce, expensive, and worth our weight in gold. We had them over the back of a barrel, and they knew it.
It seems conspiratorial, but I can't help believe it. I had a debate with my wife (who is a high-level marketing exec) about the wages of engineers vs. marketing staff, who ultimately end up dominating corporate management. The crux of her argument came down to: engineering salaries should never be more than marketing salaries, as marketing is "more important" than engineering -- never mind that without engineering you wouldn't have products to market, or with shoddy engineering you're working harder to sell shoddy products.
I think this cultural aspect is quite telling, and I think there are a lot of "suits" who think the same way. Whether or not IT salaries during the dot-bomb era were too high for economic reasons is immaterial, they had become too high for socio-cultural reasons ("Why is the IT guy driving a better BMW than ME?!?!"), and rather than see their businesses dominated by IT people, they sought to "control" this phenomenon by various means -- outsourcing, H1-Bs, lower quality packaged software, and so on.
The cultural explanation may not be the only reason, but I think its a significant one.
I had a cell phone experience in a hospital. Mom was in intensive care, and I was standing by her bed which was directly accross a hallway from a nurse's station.
Mom had been in intensive care less than 24 hours, and myself and my dad were getting tons of calls about her status. As I'm standing there talking to my wife, a doctor is on his cell phone at the nurse's station. My phone rang and I answered it (a relative calling to ask about mom), and the nurse walked up to berate me for using a cell phone (which were "banned" according to some signage).
I pointed to the doctor on his cell phone and told her that unless she wanted to discuss the cell phone policy and its enforcement with me, the hospital administration, the news media and my attorney, she should stop bothering me and care for patients.
I don't mind a policy, but I will not follow one that isn't universally enforced.
The way I've read it, I don't see how the open standard couldn't still be implemented in an open source settop box or tuner; the only place it wouldn't be open source would be inside the smart card.
Although it's likely that there would be some requirements ala DVD for ensuring that whatever copy protection schemes are supposed to be implemented get implemented.
...it doesn't matter what you submit, the goal is having the longest and most provocative comment on the Slashdot main page. Extra credit is given for extended rants on continuations the story page, but at a lesser rate than for comments on the main page.
Slashdot Warlording would be an amusing thesis paper subject for someone trying to kill some sociology credits.
If I walked down the street and cornered people and asked them to give me money, would that be illegal? Especially if I essentially ignored their refusals and became rude, aggressive and demanding?
I'd wager that at minimum they'd bust you for agressive panhandling, perhaps someone might even stretch it into a form of mugging or robbery.
And this is exactly what telemarketers do. On the street, the more aggressive and strong-willed people would walk away or otherwise rebuke them and walk away, but I'd bet that the same people who are bullied into buying from telemarketers would fork over money to someone just demanding it on the street.
What amazes me is why the media doesn't spend more time and effort exposing this "sales technique" for what it is. Surprisingly most articles on DNC lists focus on the "irritation" of the calls, or worse, the untold damage to be done to our economy through the loss of telemarketing jobs. None of them seem to focus on the decepetion, bullying and probably outright fraud associated with telemarketing.
In my mind is inextricably linked to the same business ethos that fueled Enron, WorldCom and host of other "lying your way to wealth" business models that seem to have prospered.
Bzzt wrong answer.
You can make a bootable DVD-ROM, I've done it, and booted a number of systems with DVD-Rs. We migrated a number of our system imaging CDs (which with Win2k were spanned) onto DVD-Rs, and its almost like the good ol' Win95 days again; multiple system images on a single bootable DVD-R.
We can realistically only fit about 3 of the newest images (which are pigged out with every application the desktop support crew can think of adding), but it kind of rox0rs, as kids are fond of saying these days.
The round hole is HTTP, and the square peg is the notion that a web site is a video or movie, an animated entity, an event-driven application, interactive somethingorother, or any of the other things it really isn't.
Where I work they put someone in charge of our web site who has done video production, and lo and behold, she wanted to make the web site into a video. She eventually got her way, and a zillion bytes of flash later, the site sucks to look at, is hard to navigate and they bitch that they can't tell what people are looking at from site reports since...it's all a huge flash "application".
Unfortunately it almost does the right thing. Instead of each desktop appearing to be on the outside of a shape, the desktops should be on the INSIDE of a multi-sided spherical shape.
That way you could "back up" to see multiple desktops arrayed adjacent to each other, which in itself would be more meaingful if the surfaces of the spherical shape fit some multiple of desktops (like 4).
No, actually I was thinking of printing on the paper at a high resolution with those bar-code characters that look like dot arrays.
At 600 dpi you could fit 75k 256 bit dot arrays on a 8x11 sheet of paper. If the arrays used 16 bits per array for redundancy, you have 30 bytes of information per array or around 2.1 megs of data per single-sided sheet. A ream of paper is 500 sheets, so you'd have a gig per ream. Assuming it holds compressed data @ 4:1, you've got 4 gigs in a ream of paper.
I'd imagine that color inks could increase the data capacity by at least a factor of four, so now we're talking 8 gigs of data in the space of a ream of paper. Assuming good storage and reasonable handling, and you have a high capacity archival storage system with a known lifetime of centuries.
So that makes what SCO is doing right?
I never said that, and such rhetoric on your part is neither more honest or justifiable than their actions.
I certainly don't expect everyone to care about their job, that's just not realistic, though a smaller company can shoot for that and hit a good majority. But only the lamest or most gullible employees hang around an operation like SCO.
OK, well, imagine this scenrio. Your job at SCO is as a newly promoted leader in a development group, which came with a good salary increase. Your wife just had her second child, who happened to be born with Down Syndrome. She has been fortunate enough to be allowed to take an extended leave of absence from her job to care for this child, but its unpaid. You have a car payment and a mortgage payment.
Now, is this employee "lame and gullible" for staying at a job he most certainly needs? Yes, SCO is involved in "extortion" but it's also an IP business strategy that goes on transparent to many employees at a lot of companies, and, furthermore, show me ONE "community member" who thinks SCOs claims are valid or that if they are shown to be valid, don't represent a teensy snippet of code that could be re-engineered in a weekend.
Now, would you consider hiring that person if you knew about that background, or are you insisting on using neo-political absolutist standards?
...in a box in the back room where we keep the unused equipment.
And somehow they have violated entropy and managed to tie the cables of *all* of them together, on their own.
All jobs have a negative element associated with them, whether the company is polluting the environment, selling something unsafe or unhealthy, lying to customers, and on and on and on. Even jobs like working at a nonprofit giving away stuff to poor people could potentially be construed as bad -- you're enabling a lack of self-sufficiency.
At that point, no one's job is innocent except for the person who lives by themselves and farms organically.
I don't know about you, but quitting your job in a bad overall economy and a truly horseshit IT economy can seriously endanger the well-being and stability of one's home and family.
As much as I think SCO is a bad company and what they're doing is reprehensible, do you really think that someone should risk their home and family over it?
I might be inclined to do it if I was literally fighting for my community against some real threat (ie, armed invasion or military coup d'etat), but over the SCO/Linux debacle?
I think you have to have a serious lack of perspective if you think that committing economic suicide over SCO is the right thing to do.
Is there any reason you couldn't design a "book" that would actaully be a machine-readable optically scanned card deck. You'd get the advantages of a durable paper stock, and the decks could be bound in such a way that they could be mechnically unbound, read, and returned in the way similar to a tape library.
I'm not sure what kind of data density you could get, though, although I suspect it would be slightly more than you might think. It creates a storage problem, but then it has great durability, and the machine to read it would arguably be easier to re-make in the future than the ones used to read traditional optical media, since you could include a card in each deck explaining in human terms how the deck is encoded.
Desipte the PC radar reading you're having, in many European countries gypsies are a major pain in the ass, from a lying and stealing perspective -- which is why they still get shit on by most European police departments.
It's not an issue as much in the US, since we don't have Roma gypsy populations like they do in Europe (especially Eastern Europe). But we have had run-ins with "Irish Travelers" in the US who usually perpetrate a lot of common scams.
It's not like someone dreams these nasty things to say about other people up just to be nasty, they often have a very accurate basis in reality. Of course, this isn't PC to admit, but it is true.
I wonder how many people want to do research on something non-military related, find that the easiest money is military-related, and then claim some kind of bogus "dual use" application just to get the .mil money?
I periodically peek at the MythTV site, and it strikes me that the biggest obstacle to Myth TV is the apalling small list of reliable, inexpensive MPEG hardware on PCs and the fairly bad support that does exist has for Myth TV functionality (tuners, TV in and out, MPEG hardware capture) under Linux.
Somebody (and NOT Hauppage) needs to make an inexpensive MPEG2/tuner card with:
DVD-compatible MPEG2 capture and playback at various bitrates
MPEG2 engine usable for accelerating video file conversion to MPEG2 in at least real time
At least 4 inputs, including two with component connectors
At least 4 outputs, including two with component connectors
Support for 16:9 ratios
Under $300, no proprietary codecs.
I say not Hauppage (hodge-podge as my friends and I call it), because I've owned the PVR-350 and suxored big time. I had to get "beta" drivers from support to get it to work at all; MPEG playback and recording, which was supposed to be hardware accelerated, dragged my system (a PIII-933 Dell) to an unusable crawl; their MPEG2 files were NOT compatible with the generic DVD MPEG2 codec.