AG ("Grand Inquisitor") Gonzales admitted that Bush ordered his Justice Department lawyers not to perform their required investigations of Bush's illegal domestic spying operations. So DoJ has lots of time to prosecute popular gambling websites.
I wonder how many gambling sites that do have other actually criminal activities will be prosecuted to make this project look good. Crimes that were discovered by Bush's unconstitutional NSA dragnet, rather than the due process America used to have when its government wasn't a criminal gang.
Why is gambling illegal? Because god says so? Because compulsive adults hurt other people? Because serious criminals commiting other crimes also make and spend money gambling? Because illegal gambling makes the business more lucrative for the illegal "house", while keeping its customers from using police when something goes wrong?
Is gambling inherently any more criminal than drugs? Does criminalizing it help society more than it hurts?
Across the LAN (100+Mbps/<10ms), I just want to expand the RAID across multiple hosts in a single virtual filesystem that every app in the VM fabric addresses thru kernel filesystem calls.
Across WANs mobile processes and filesystem subtrees could be well supported by caches and pause/copy ops.
It seems like VMWare running the same SW RAID in its OS instances can do at least that basic config. Hotswappable virtual "network computer" seems already here.
I'd like to see a "thermometer" on the page, showing how hotly it's been edited. Maybe a graph, linked to user-supplied events.
And moderation letting people with IDs assign trust scores (-/?/+), with metamoderation underwriting those scores' weighting. Meta/moderation requiring links to outside citations to count.
I didn't say it would be useful for rendering games or movies. I thought it would give better control and retouching to general app graphics. "Realtime" not in FPS but as opposed to exporting to an interactive or scripted retouching shell.
Would that support a software RAID fabric that lets me distribute both processes and storage across a single virtual host, backed by lots of $150 PCs stuffed with cheap IDE drives? How big can such a beast get?
Is there a VMWare that distributes tasks across a network of VMWare hosts automatically? So I can just add new hosts to a network to make all the apps run faster? And install apps on a single machine, from where VMWare redistributes the load without my direct intervention?
What are you talking about? The story has 2 links: one to the AAAS website with the original NIST PR, another to Piquepalle's page at ZDNet telling the story. So he submitted the story to Slashdot himself, rather than some random user submitting his story? His name is on it. It's not spam - you are the one reading the Slashdot page, clicking the links.
Piquepalle is doing nothing wrong, except making Slashdotters jealous that he submits so many newsworthy stories. And gets some money without it costing Slashdotters anything, just like every other Slashdot story. And, I suppose, continuing to run afoul of Slashdot groupthink that attacks him with the same gusto with which it generates endless "Soviet Russia" posts.
But I'm already doing sysadmin on the rest of my LAN. A few more boxes in the closet that don't host users, just a RAID, aren't going to significantly increase my workload, once I've installed it.
But then, I find occasionally setting up a PC for myself relaxing. I guess because I'm both geeky and cheap. That's why the cheap PC approach seems better, especially for home systems that don't need the performance/manageability of an enterprise RAID.
The role of commodity HW actually makes the cheap PC RAID more interesting. Because it's so cheap, while the Thecus isn't cheap. Which indicates there's a market for geeks to distribute bigger distributed RAIDs like I described for less money, bundled cheap.
Why spend $1100 to get 5 drives when you can spend $150 for practically any cheap PC with 4 IDE slots? That's $600 for 8 slots, 6TB raw @750GB for another $3000 or 2TB @250GB for $500. It might not be as fast, but if you distribute the data right, you're getting access times across 8 IDE switches instead of 5 - and it's just as reliable. Spending all $1100 gets you 6 hosts, 24 slots; $1500 for 6TB @250GB or $9K for 18TB. You might spend more time replacing drives and components, but that might be worth the money.
And you get 6 hosts on which to distribute other processes when not fetching data. Quite a nice compute/storage fabric.
You've still got to boot, and decide which Linux distro to run your SW RAID. Maybe off a CD - whose distro?
The problem is not "open content", Wikipedia, or vandals. The problem is people who rely on a single unaccountable source for any knowledge. That is a recipe for failure.
This has also been the problem with "authoritative" sources, like the Encyclopedia Britannica, NY Times or White House Spokesman. Those sources are highly managed, consciously or unconsciously, so they don't usually go as obviously haywire. Instead they mislead to usually workable misconceptions. In the service of the writer/speaker or the organization that produces/publishes them.
Now that the world is finally filling with lots of smalltime publishers, as publishing has become so cheap, easy and scaleable, we're all seeing the limits of sources. So we all must learn what the past publishers learn: power of the press belongs to people with presses, and power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. The only way to handle the corruption is to match power against power, cross-reference information from independent (of each other) sources.
Wikipedia will be even better when it includes an independent "fact checking" feature, like automated Google/Yahoo/MSN searching of citations. Until then, its superior power to managed press is just raw power that requires users to do that for ourselves.
Roland is back with the accepted stories you wish you'd submitted, and no one is wasting time with any bullshit about how he's robbing us with his good editing.
I was reading through a _Warriors_ game "strategy" (cheats) book at Blockbuster today, thinking "why aren't there more little movies with good stories using these game engines?" All it takes is one killer video to get everyone doing it.
These anonymous fascists aren't "asleep". There's no one left with the excuse that they don't notice Bush's tyranny. They're in on it, even though they're probably just getting screwed like the rest of us. They're part of the big chunk of Americans who call themselves "Conservatives" but are really just sicko authoritarians. Like the TrollMods who mod me down when I discuss Bush's torture and murder in our Terror War gulags. They hate America, they hate me, they hate themselves. It's a nightmare, but no one's sleeping.
Practically all of the recordings I enjoy were produced over a generation ago. Many were produced 2-5 generations ago.
The musicians didn't produce them because copyright protected them. They produced them because, bless their pointed little heads, they're compulsive communicators, like most artists. The record companies that produced them had absolutely no expectations of selling them more than 20 years later, almost no expectations of selling them a year later. In fact, my favorites were recorded live by people who paid for a ticket, the only compensation any of the producers expected. Which then combined with the work of recorders, archivists and distributors who expected at most a transaction fee the first time they released their product. And which are typically enjoyed by people who spend many thousands of dollars in their lives on official releases and appearances of the artists. And who turn those recordings into the folk music that gets licensed as jingles to sell products.
Everyone I know (and there are dozens) who has a brain in Hollywood, who is honest with me, tells me that they don't think selling recorded content is a business with a future. Giving away recordings for free to promote merchandise, ticket sales and licensed jingles is where all the survivors are going. The smartest wish they were already there - selling to the people who still buy is a hassle, and keeps the industry from just taking over the advertising industry, where the real easy money is at.
Anyone demanding these permanent copyrights to ensure we get art from artists is just singing themselves a lullabye.
Why would I want a DVD of old news when I can download new news for much less money?
Maybe if I banded together with 359 other people to archive all of our 15 minutes each of fame, it would be worth seven cents apiece for the official disc. Which we would then copy across the Net and burn for ourselves.
The more Microsoft wedges everyone's desktop into the narrower needs of a one-size-fits-all corporate IT model, the more opportunities Linux has to suit the increasingly diverse Personal Computer userbase.
How about a Blender upgrade to a window manager that pipes graphics to Blender in realtime? Not just screengrabs, but any rendering being sent to the screen, before getting dressed in the widgets, or including them. With loopback to let us Blendo our desktops as we use them.
the deal would put the court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, in the unusual position of deciding whether the wiretapping program is a legitimate use of the president's power to fight terrorism.
Lichtblau says the FISA Court's position would be "unusual". The FISA Court is the ONLY venue that is ALWAYS in the position of deciding whether US persons are legitimate wiretap subjects. It's position is not just not "unusual", it is absolutely required every time.
Anyone who isn't complicit in creating a "unitary executive" from Bush's imperial presidency can tell that SPECTRE is just papering the discarding of Congress as the lawmaking body in the USA.
When Congress passed the CAN-SPAM Act, it made spam extinct, disappeared from every inbox. Now they'll wave a magic law and the world's online gambling compulsion will also disappear. The US is always much safer when Intarwebs experts like Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) are protecting us from evil. >/SNARK<
Of course that law is BS. It won't even stop outed Republican hypocrites like Bill Bennett from gambling. It will get Christaliban to pull the lever (or touch the screen) for Republicans this November, along with Bush's threatened stemcell veto. As usual, its real power will lie in all the other unrelated corporate welfare clauses stuck under its figleaf that pass in stealth, while the mass media talks about only its sexy title.
For one, they weren't free when the state first tried to require them. Though the state amended the law after that obvious problem was fixed, there were still more problems that made Black Georgians underrepresented.
They still require time. They require accessing the bureaucracy. They require literacy, or possibly more bureaucracy instead.
The kinds of problems the state of Georgia has been expert in creating, which is why the Voting Rights Act was passed, specifically monitoring Georgia, and obviously still needs to be operated. And why Georgia is trying to stop it.
They present a burden to voting that is more likely for poor, illiterate and (therefore) Black Georgians. As the judge decided on the evidence.
A situation that anyone who knows either fairly recent American history, or just knows Georgia, should expect, but not tolerate.
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AG ("Grand Inquisitor") Gonzales admitted that Bush ordered his Justice Department lawyers not to perform their required investigations of Bush's illegal domestic spying operations. So DoJ has lots of time to prosecute popular gambling websites.
I wonder how many gambling sites that do have other actually criminal activities will be prosecuted to make this project look good. Crimes that were discovered by Bush's unconstitutional NSA dragnet, rather than the due process America used to have when its government wasn't a criminal gang.
Why is gambling illegal? Because god says so? Because compulsive adults hurt other people? Because serious criminals commiting other crimes also make and spend money gambling? Because illegal gambling makes the business more lucrative for the illegal "house", while keeping its customers from using police when something goes wrong?
Is gambling inherently any more criminal than drugs? Does criminalizing it help society more than it hurts?
You're insane.
Across the LAN (100+Mbps/<10ms), I just want to expand the RAID across multiple hosts in a single virtual filesystem that every app in the VM fabric addresses thru kernel filesystem calls.
Across WANs mobile processes and filesystem subtrees could be well supported by caches and pause/copy ops.
It seems like VMWare running the same SW RAID in its OS instances can do at least that basic config. Hotswappable virtual "network computer" seems already here.
I'd like to see a "thermometer" on the page, showing how hotly it's been edited. Maybe a graph, linked to user-supplied events.
And moderation letting people with IDs assign trust scores (-/?/+), with metamoderation underwriting those scores' weighting. Meta/moderation requiring links to outside citations to count.
Can it do all that across the Internet, or even just a WAN with guaranteed bandwidth and latency, even if low bandwidth and high latency?
I didn't say it would be useful for rendering games or movies. I thought it would give better control and retouching to general app graphics. "Realtime" not in FPS but as opposed to exporting to an interactive or scripted retouching shell.
Would that support a software RAID fabric that lets me distribute both processes and storage across a single virtual host, backed by lots of $150 PCs stuffed with cheap IDE drives? How big can such a beast get?
Is there a VMWare that distributes tasks across a network of VMWare hosts automatically? So I can just add new hosts to a network to make all the apps run faster? And install apps on a single machine, from where VMWare redistributes the load without my direct intervention?
What are you talking about? The story has 2 links: one to the AAAS website with the original NIST PR, another to Piquepalle's page at ZDNet telling the story. So he submitted the story to Slashdot himself, rather than some random user submitting his story? His name is on it. It's not spam - you are the one reading the Slashdot page, clicking the links.
Piquepalle is doing nothing wrong, except making Slashdotters jealous that he submits so many newsworthy stories. And gets some money without it costing Slashdotters anything, just like every other Slashdot story. And, I suppose, continuing to run afoul of Slashdot groupthink that attacks him with the same gusto with which it generates endless "Soviet Russia" posts.
But I'm already doing sysadmin on the rest of my LAN. A few more boxes in the closet that don't host users, just a RAID, aren't going to significantly increase my workload, once I've installed it.
But then, I find occasionally setting up a PC for myself relaxing. I guess because I'm both geeky and cheap. That's why the cheap PC approach seems better, especially for home systems that don't need the performance/manageability of an enterprise RAID.
The role of commodity HW actually makes the cheap PC RAID more interesting. Because it's so cheap, while the Thecus isn't cheap. Which indicates there's a market for geeks to distribute bigger distributed RAIDs like I described for less money, bundled cheap.
Why spend $1100 to get 5 drives when you can spend $150 for practically any cheap PC with 4 IDE slots? That's $600 for 8 slots, 6TB raw @750GB for another $3000 or 2TB @250GB for $500. It might not be as fast, but if you distribute the data right, you're getting access times across 8 IDE switches instead of 5 - and it's just as reliable. Spending all $1100 gets you 6 hosts, 24 slots; $1500 for 6TB @250GB or $9K for 18TB. You might spend more time replacing drives and components, but that might be worth the money.
And you get 6 hosts on which to distribute other processes when not fetching data. Quite a nice compute/storage fabric.
You've still got to boot, and decide which Linux distro to run your SW RAID. Maybe off a CD - whose distro?
The problem is not "open content", Wikipedia, or vandals. The problem is people who rely on a single unaccountable source for any knowledge. That is a recipe for failure.
This has also been the problem with "authoritative" sources, like the Encyclopedia Britannica, NY Times or White House Spokesman. Those sources are highly managed, consciously or unconsciously, so they don't usually go as obviously haywire. Instead they mislead to usually workable misconceptions. In the service of the writer/speaker or the organization that produces/publishes them.
Now that the world is finally filling with lots of smalltime publishers, as publishing has become so cheap, easy and scaleable, we're all seeing the limits of sources. So we all must learn what the past publishers learn: power of the press belongs to people with presses, and power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. The only way to handle the corruption is to match power against power, cross-reference information from independent (of each other) sources.
Wikipedia will be even better when it includes an independent "fact checking" feature, like automated Google/Yahoo/MSN searching of citations. Until then, its superior power to managed press is just raw power that requires users to do that for ourselves.
Why should we care about any of that? How is his personal page any sleazier than ZDNet's summary? It's not. It's all bullshit.
Roland is back with the accepted stories you wish you'd submitted, and no one is wasting time with any bullshit about how he's robbing us with his good editing.
I was reading through a _Warriors_ game "strategy" (cheats) book at Blockbuster today, thinking "why aren't there more little movies with good stories using these game engines?" All it takes is one killer video to get everyone doing it.
These anonymous fascists aren't "asleep". There's no one left with the excuse that they don't notice Bush's tyranny. They're in on it, even though they're probably just getting screwed like the rest of us. They're part of the big chunk of Americans who call themselves "Conservatives" but are really just sicko authoritarians. Like the TrollMods who mod me down when I discuss Bush's torture and murder in our Terror War gulags. They hate America, they hate me, they hate themselves. It's a nightmare, but no one's sleeping.
Moderation -1
100% Troll
TrollMods actually want Bush to spy on them like a tyrant.
Practically all of the recordings I enjoy were produced over a generation ago. Many were produced 2-5 generations ago.
The musicians didn't produce them because copyright protected them. They produced them because, bless their pointed little heads, they're compulsive communicators, like most artists. The record companies that produced them had absolutely no expectations of selling them more than 20 years later, almost no expectations of selling them a year later. In fact, my favorites were recorded live by people who paid for a ticket, the only compensation any of the producers expected. Which then combined with the work of recorders, archivists and distributors who expected at most a transaction fee the first time they released their product. And which are typically enjoyed by people who spend many thousands of dollars in their lives on official releases and appearances of the artists. And who turn those recordings into the folk music that gets licensed as jingles to sell products.
Everyone I know (and there are dozens) who has a brain in Hollywood, who is honest with me, tells me that they don't think selling recorded content is a business with a future. Giving away recordings for free to promote merchandise, ticket sales and licensed jingles is where all the survivors are going. The smartest wish they were already there - selling to the people who still buy is a hassle, and keeps the industry from just taking over the advertising industry, where the real easy money is at.
Anyone demanding these permanent copyrights to ensure we get art from artists is just singing themselves a lullabye.
Why would I want a DVD of old news when I can download new news for much less money?
Maybe if I banded together with 359 other people to archive all of our 15 minutes each of fame, it would be worth seven cents apiece for the official disc. Which we would then copy across the Net and burn for ourselves.
The more Microsoft wedges everyone's desktop into the narrower needs of a one-size-fits-all corporate IT model, the more opportunities Linux has to suit the increasingly diverse Personal Computer userbase.
How about a Blender upgrade to a window manager that pipes graphics to Blender in realtime? Not just screengrabs, but any rendering being sent to the screen, before getting dressed in the widgets, or including them. With loopback to let us Blendo our desktops as we use them.
Lichtblau says the FISA Court's position would be "unusual". The FISA Court is the ONLY venue that is ALWAYS in the position of deciding whether US persons are legitimate wiretap subjects. It's position is not just not "unusual", it is absolutely required every time.
Anyone who isn't complicit in creating a "unitary executive" from Bush's imperial presidency can tell that SPECTRE is just papering the discarding of Congress as the lawmaking body in the USA.
When Congress passed the CAN-SPAM Act, it made spam extinct, disappeared from every inbox. Now they'll wave a magic law and the world's online gambling compulsion will also disappear. The US is always much safer when Intarwebs experts like Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) are protecting us from evil.
>/SNARK<
Of course that law is BS. It won't even stop outed Republican hypocrites like Bill Bennett from gambling. It will get Christaliban to pull the lever (or touch the screen) for Republicans this November, along with Bush's threatened stemcell veto. As usual, its real power will lie in all the other unrelated corporate welfare clauses stuck under its figleaf that pass in stealth, while the mass media talks about only its sexy title.
For one, they weren't free when the state first tried to require them. Though the state amended the law after that obvious problem was fixed, there were still more problems that made Black Georgians underrepresented.
They still require time. They require accessing the bureaucracy. They require literacy, or possibly more bureaucracy instead.
The kinds of problems the state of Georgia has been expert in creating, which is why the Voting Rights Act was passed, specifically monitoring Georgia, and obviously still needs to be operated. And why Georgia is trying to stop it.
They present a burden to voting that is more likely for poor, illiterate and (therefore) Black Georgians. As the judge decided on the evidence.
A situation that anyone who knows either fairly recent American history, or just knows Georgia, should expect, but not tolerate.