Top Secret!'s plot was more of an excuse to get from scene to scene.
Yes, but oh what scenes! From skeet-surfing to throwing darts at the RAF roundel, it's hilarious. The large phone. The East German National Anthem. "Let me know if his condition changes. He's dead." "It took the doctors two hours to get the smile off his face." The fatal car crash in the Ford Pinto. The cow. Deja-vu: "Haven't I seen you somewhere before?". The narrative. The unholy hand grenade. Playing tic-tac-toe. The map in the sand. The...
You can select striping or contiguous data storage when you setup the LVM volume. If you're doing contiguous, you only lose what's on the dead drive, the rest of the data is (should be, anyway) recoverable.
My main gripe with RAID5 is that there's no reliable mechanism for growing the array unless you buy really, really expensive hardware for it. I have a cheap JBOD with LVM for storing my camcorder clips, photos, MP3 collection and stuff (almost no pr0n, sadly) and sometimes I throw a new disk in there.
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Read the freaking law yourself. You still need to inform the user, no matter what you use the cookies for:
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According to PTS, the next paragraph (the exception for requested services) does not apply to the requirement to inform the user, it applies to the service itself - this requirement should not prevent the user from getting the service, which is the delivery of information. In the case of PTS, this is fulfilled by giving an e-mail address and a phone number for further contacts since their website obviously is useless without cookies.
For the record, I think this is possibly the most stupid law I have seen in a long time (or at least PTS' interpretation of it).
Magnetic stripe readers are now quite common and could be installed on public terminals at minimal expense.
By anyone. Most banks are moving away from magnetic stripes exactly because the readers are so inexpensive and easy to install on public terminals and ATMs. In addition to the official readers. The smartcards are coming.
If you want further clarification read copyright law
Oh, I have. I read it extensively during Twirlip's last JE debate. That part isn't really the issue here.
owning the CD does not give you the right to copy and redistribute to many. Even if it's a corporation.
What I think Cringely is going for is the notion that a corporation is a single legal entity, just like a person, and the shareholders could be construed as being co-owners of the CDs and the corporation may (or it's subsidiary, I don't know enough about US corp law to figure out why he lets the daughter dole out the music instead of the parent) have the right to let them listen in on the corporate assets. If the corporation is a single entity, it should have the right to allow shareholders access to the corporation's assets since they are the same people, legally. It doesn't have to do it, but it has the right to do so.
A corporation certainly has the right to (as some have suggested otherwise in this thread) give their own stuff away to their shareholders - Microsoft has every right to make copies of Windows and give to shareholders. But can Microsoft buy a CD and play it to shareholders during a shareholder meeting? Would it make a difference if MS set up a mutual trust fund with a lot of beneficiaries and played the CD to them?
However, this loophole could be plugged pretty quickly, if it isn't already. I'd rather see the RIAA get a clue and start reforming their business model or artists abandoning the major labels, alternatively seeing the major labels getting clues and leaving the RIAA, reforming their business models in the process. This is just a hack to patch up a bad system - for the long haul, we really need a new system.
Even if all your emplyees were shareholders, you couldn't buy just one copy of Photoshop and copy it to ALL their computers -- even if they all technically "own" it.
That's only because Photoshop has a license that you (allegedly) agrees to when purchasing the CD. Many RIAA stooges say that you also buy a "license to listen" when you purchase an audio CD, but this is simply not the case. No shrinkwrap EULA, no signature, no license. It's a clear transfer of ownership.
The best part of his idea is that all this crap about corporations being legally persons FINALLY comes back to bite them, really, really hard. Hoo-yah!
Oh, and BTW:
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So, any "middle eastern man" is a terrorist now? Perhaps he was simply a businessman looking to make a quick buck? (Oh no, capitalism! The horror, the horror!)
Actually, Philips has historically been the more open of those two - see DAT and the Compact Cassette, not to mention the CD. Philips is probably one of the best and most vocal defenders against warping the CD Audio format into a DRM-enabled content delivery platform.
* Read-Copy Update mechanism for mutual exclusion * * (GPL boilerplate) * * Copyright (c) International Business Machines Corp., 2001 * Copyright (C) Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> SuSE, 2001 * * Author: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>, * Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> * * Based on the original work by Paul McKenney <paul.mckenney@us.ibm.com> * and inputs from Andrea Arcangeli, Rusty Russell, Andi Kleen etc. * Papers: * http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/paper/rclockpdc sproof.pdf * http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rclock_OLS.2001.05.01c.sc.pdf (OLS2001) * * For detailed explanation of Read-Copy Update mechanism see - * http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rcupdate.html * */
Let me run that one by SCO again: Based on the original work by Paul McKenney (paul.mckenney@us.ibm.com)
I don't really know. However, my (meager) experience is that the tools aren't important - getting the developers to use them is. I have first-hand experience with a "developer" that routinely turned off all compiler warnings and when the code compiled without errors - simply shipped it. This was on the Windows platform, BTW. And yes, I'm pretty sure he re-defined atleast a few errors to warnings. Which he already had suppressed.
Some of us jokingly referred to this practice as "[company name withheld] Tested and Approved" as a spoof off the Novell Tested and Approved stickers.
Microsoft has spent a good deal of time and money on educating their deveopers about seemingly simple things like buffer overruns, but still they creep into shipping code. Why? Because they're human (contrary to popular belief, not all Microsoft employees are gnarly evil trolls, just the legal and marketing departments - the remaining 3% of the company are actually human beings, some of them are even rather nice persons) and excrement occurs.
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Modpoints! Modpoints! My kingdom for some modpoints! (-;
Yes, but oh what scenes! From skeet-surfing to throwing darts at the RAF roundel, it's hilarious. The large phone. The East German National Anthem. "Let me know if his condition changes. He's dead." "It took the doctors two hours to get the smile off his face." The fatal car crash in the Ford Pinto. The cow. Deja-vu: "Haven't I seen you somewhere before?". The narrative. The unholy hand grenade. Playing tic-tac-toe. The map in the sand. The...
Damn, I'll have to go watch it again...
Tell him the database is mauve-coloured. Mauve has more RAM.
My main gripe with RAID5 is that there's no reliable mechanism for growing the array unless you buy really, really expensive hardware for it. I have a cheap JBOD with LVM for storing my camcorder clips, photos, MP3 collection and stuff (almost no pr0n, sadly) and sometimes I throw a new disk in there.
The specs say 4 seconds, but I admit that it feels more like 10 when you're standing there, waiting for the box to die.
Check out the cookie warning on www.pts.se and then tell me why they seem to think they need to have people explicitly accept cookies or go away.
Read the freaking law yourself. You still need to inform the user, no matter what you use the cookies for: According to PTS, the next paragraph (the exception for requested services) does not apply to the requirement to inform the user, it applies to the service itself - this requirement should not prevent the user from getting the service, which is the delivery of information. In the case of PTS, this is fulfilled by giving an e-mail address and a phone number for further contacts since their website obviously is useless without cookies.For the record, I think this is possibly the most stupid law I have seen in a long time (or at least PTS' interpretation of it).
By anyone. Most banks are moving away from magnetic stripes exactly because the readers are so inexpensive and easy to install on public terminals and ATMs. In addition to the official readers. The smartcards are coming.
in the colos of the night,
What immortal ping of DDOS
could crash thy fearful RAID array?
A happy Vogon, am I. Sorry, Blake.
Nevermind, we rarely have experience in any area, but we still comment on them. After all, it's the way of the Slashdot.
Oh, I have. I read it extensively during Twirlip's last JE debate. That part isn't really the issue here.
owning the CD does not give you the right to copy and redistribute to many. Even if it's a corporation.
What I think Cringely is going for is the notion that a corporation is a single legal entity, just like a person, and the shareholders could be construed as being co-owners of the CDs and the corporation may (or it's subsidiary, I don't know enough about US corp law to figure out why he lets the daughter dole out the music instead of the parent) have the right to let them listen in on the corporate assets. If the corporation is a single entity, it should have the right to allow shareholders access to the corporation's assets since they are the same people, legally. It doesn't have to do it, but it has the right to do so.
A corporation certainly has the right to (as some have suggested otherwise in this thread) give their own stuff away to their shareholders - Microsoft has every right to make copies of Windows and give to shareholders. But can Microsoft buy a CD and play it to shareholders during a shareholder meeting? Would it make a difference if MS set up a mutual trust fund with a lot of beneficiaries and played the CD to them?
However, this loophole could be plugged pretty quickly, if it isn't already. I'd rather see the RIAA get a clue and start reforming their business model or artists abandoning the major labels, alternatively seeing the major labels getting clues and leaving the RIAA, reforming their business models in the process. This is just a hack to patch up a bad system - for the long haul, we really need a new system.
That's only because Photoshop has a license that you (allegedly) agrees to when purchasing the CD. Many RIAA stooges say that you also buy a "license to listen" when you purchase an audio CD, but this is simply not the case. No shrinkwrap EULA, no signature, no license. It's a clear transfer of ownership.
The best part of his idea is that all this crap about corporations being legally persons FINALLY comes back to bite them, really, really hard. Hoo-yah!
Oh, and BTW:
So, any "middle eastern man" is a terrorist now? Perhaps he was simply a businessman looking to make a quick buck? (Oh no, capitalism! The horror, the horror!)
May I recommend lying down corrected, then? Or atleast reclining corrected?
Pathetic excuse accepted (per Slashdot standards), BTW.
Dead.
Actually, Philips has historically been the more open of those two - see DAT and the Compact Cassette, not to mention the CD. Philips is probably one of the best and most vocal defenders against warping the CD Audio format into a DRM-enabled content delivery platform.
So it's actually not the GPL that's viral so much as corporate mergers and aquisitions. Anyone told the Ferengis yet?
The part of Sweden where I'm from (Härjedalen) is just under 1. There's a rumour that we're defined as uninhabited by the EU. :-)
I take it your humor.dll just had a BSOD, then?
Oh, I used to work in tech support too.
Bah, I want USB 2.0 Ludicrous Speed!
Mmmm, kiss. Simple as that. :-)
So who'll be the first to make a Gentoo ebuild for it?
Not really. Just some kick-ass space crusades.
Some of us jokingly referred to this practice as "[company name withheld] Tested and Approved" as a spoof off the Novell Tested and Approved stickers.
Microsoft has spent a good deal of time and money on educating their deveopers about seemingly simple things like buffer overruns, but still they creep into shipping code. Why? Because they're human (contrary to popular belief, not all Microsoft employees are gnarly evil trolls, just the legal and marketing departments - the remaining 3% of the company are actually human beings, some of them are even rather nice persons) and excrement occurs.