what's more... if you play along with that game, it hurts everyone else at your company, and it hurts yourself in the long run.
Management must learn that if they don't treat people *fairly*, they won't get second chances.
If they learn that they can underpay everyone until they're called on it, then they *will* underpay everyone until they're called on it, which will save them a substantial amount of money and pulls down everyones overall compensation.
There IS something wrong with creating the desire in the first place. It's an intentional scheme to emotionally manipulate people into being dissatisfied, for one's own profit, at the disadvantage of the "mark". It's selfish and immoral.
Knowing that, it is also immoral to profit indirectly from that offense, even if you didn't perpetrate the offense yourself.
Bah. I've been doing it for twenty years, and I haven't even been scratched. Besides, I figure that anyone who can't see well enough to avoid rear-ending me NEEDS to be taken off the road. So my policy is, the first guy who rear-ends me at speed on the highway is gonna get shot, in pure self-defense.
yeh, the email I use to post to usenet has nospam in the name. The catch is, it's not obfuscated, that's the correct address. It never gets spam -- the spammers seem to scrape out the 'nospam', and the resulting address does not exist.
I dunno, I run Quicken inside Win4Lin on my home machine with the X server running on a laptop in my hotel room. The trick is LBX - the low-bandwidth extensions.
X has had this for YEARS, long before XP came out.
Over any long period, the stock market more or less tracks the growth in the GNP. Tax revenues track the growth in the GDP. In either case, they can't outperform some broad measure of economic growth over the long run.
Exactly. I'd also like to see a distinction between local and long-distance. Bandwidth that stays local to the ISP doesn't cost them nearly as much.
If so-called community wireless nets are going to be successful, application protocols and usage patterns must be developed that can understand that access gets much more expensive with every additional hop.
And in Pittsburgh, a US Air pilot was arrested, and then suspended when he objected to having his tweezers confiscated by security. He said something along the lines of "What do you think I'm going to do with those tweezers. Hell, I'm the PILOT, for chrissakes. I could crash the plane if I wanted."
Man had a point, there. But it's not a good time to tell people the truth, they REALLY don't want to hear it, and will do anything possible to avoid it.
I don't know about each of the journaled fileysystems in question, but at least some of them do not journal user data, only metadata changes. In other words, they journal block allocation and deallocation (size changes), and other changes to the inode.
If the filesystems aren't making the allocation optimization I mentioned, then shred is fine as is.
That said, the best place to implement a secure remove operation is in the filesystem code itself, rather than trying to trick it from user code.
These filesystems optimize for full block overwrites. If the application is writing a full block, it may be faster to allocate a new block at a more convenient location, and deallocate the old block. However, if the application is writing less than a full block, the filesystem will have to read the contents of the old block anyway. So in that case, it will usually just write the new data back to the same location as the old.
The implication is that shred could work (slowly) on fancy filesystems if it did writes in a funny size, such as 3113 bytes
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I would love to see Philips sue record companies for deceptively using their certification logo!
Can't anyone bring trademark infringement charges in Germany? Wasn't that the gist of the whole Killustrator flap? Does the EFF or EPIC or CDT or have a.de branch? Howabout the CCC? I'll send them a couple hunnert marks towards legal fees!
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what's more ... if you play along with that game, it hurts everyone else at your company, and it hurts yourself in the long run.
Management must learn that if they don't treat people *fairly*, they won't get second chances.
If they learn that they can underpay everyone until they're called on it, then they *will* underpay everyone until they're called on it, which will save them a substantial amount of money and pulls down everyones overall compensation.
There IS something wrong with creating the desire in the first place. It's an intentional scheme to emotionally manipulate people into being dissatisfied, for one's own profit, at the disadvantage of the "mark". It's selfish and immoral.
Knowing that, it is also immoral to profit indirectly from that offense, even if you didn't perpetrate the offense yourself.
Bah. I've been doing it for twenty years, and I haven't even been scratched. Besides, I figure that anyone who can't see well enough to avoid rear-ending me NEEDS to be taken off the road. So my policy is, the first guy who rear-ends me at speed on the highway is gonna get shot, in pure self-defense.
Drive carefully...
yeh, the email I use to post to usenet has nospam in the name. The catch is, it's not obfuscated, that's the correct address. It never gets spam -- the spammers seem to scrape out the 'nospam', and the resulting address does not exist.
at least, up until right before the plane crashed. So I guess we don't really know whether the phones were dangerous to the avionics.
damned easy choice. Buy two 32X burners for $80, and get the job done in just a smidgen over half the time the 48X burner would take.
it's legal *and* moral.
"new" applies to the media, not the license, and indicates that the media has no scratches or defects.
there's no such thing as a "used" license, the concept is meaningless.
I dunno, I run Quicken inside Win4Lin on my home machine with the X server running on a laptop in my hotel room. The trick is LBX - the low-bandwidth extensions.
X has had this for YEARS, long before XP came out.
I say mail it to the consumers and let them bury it in their own backyards. Instant incentive to make less of it.
The cream rises to the top.
But so does the scum.
Over any long period, the stock market more or less tracks the growth in the GNP. Tax revenues track the growth in the GDP. In either case, they can't outperform some broad measure of economic growth over the long run.
To believe otherwise is a fantasy.
re: price-per-bit, plus time-of-day charges
Exactly. I'd also like to see a distinction between local and long-distance. Bandwidth that stays local to the ISP doesn't cost them nearly as much.
If so-called community wireless nets are going to be successful, application protocols and usage patterns must be developed that can understand that access gets much more expensive with every additional hop.
The perspective is f'd up, too.
The photo is taken at an angle to the building, so the lines aren't square, but the logo is.
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.And in Pittsburgh, a US Air pilot was arrested, and then suspended when he objected to having his tweezers confiscated by security. He said something along the lines of "What do you think I'm going to do with those tweezers. Hell, I'm the PILOT, for chrissakes. I could crash the plane if I wanted."
Man had a point, there. But it's not a good time to tell people the truth, they REALLY don't want to hear it, and will do anything possible to avoid it.
NIMBA a NIMBA stupid NIMBA coding NIMBA bug NIMBA NIMBA left NIMBA many NIMBA NIMBA NIMBA systems NIMBA NIMBA open NIMBA NIMBA NIMBA NIMBA NIMBA
I wonder what this acronym is supposed to stand for. At first, I thought it meant "Not In My Backyard", but that's usually spelled NIMBY.
Not In My Butt AGAIN ?
Oops. Well, you know, those lawyers all look alike to me.
I don't know about each of the journaled fileysystems in question, but at least some of them do not journal user data, only metadata changes. In other words, they journal block allocation and deallocation (size changes), and other changes to the inode.
If the filesystems aren't making the allocation optimization I mentioned, then shred is fine as is.
That said, the best place to implement a secure remove operation is in the filesystem code itself, rather than trying to trick it from user code.
A student in a dorm room could broadcast a rented DVD to every other student in their building
you mean, instead of showing it on the widescreen TV in the lounge, the way college students have been doing ever since the invention of the VCR.
I'm just waiting for Hilary and friends to start raiding college dorms looking for DVD players in public spaces.
These filesystems optimize for full block overwrites. If the application is writing a full block, it may be faster to allocate a new block at a more convenient location, and deallocate the old block. However, if the application is writing less than a full block, the filesystem will have to read the contents of the old block anyway. So in that case, it will usually just write the new data back to the same location as the old.
The implication is that shred could work (slowly) on fancy filesystems if it did writes in a funny size, such as 3113 bytes
Note, those are Imperial gallons, not US gallons.
The name was probably a sop to rabid ST fanbois though
Duh!
Who do you think built the thing?
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(Get some help with the actual contract, and don't use the software until you get the returned check)
I would love to see Philips sue record companies for deceptively using their certification logo!
.de branch? Howabout the CCC? I'll send them a couple hunnert marks towards legal fees!
Can't anyone bring trademark infringement charges in Germany? Wasn't that the gist of the whole Killustrator flap? Does the EFF or EPIC or CDT or have a
when you can run a webserver from a PDA that is extremely cool
'course, Jim Rees wrote a web server for the Palm ages and ages ago.