The difference is cooperation. The examples you mentioned all cooperate when takedown notices are served; the law states that as a hosting provider, you're off the hook as long as you meet certain criteria. TPB, OTOH, didn't comply, thus, are treated more harshly.
Why, because we should just roll over and allow a "standard" with no independent review, and outside foresight to be determining international standards? Especially considering that the nation creating the standards has a well-known history of spying and firewalling their own people to ensure they don't read "objectionable" material. I'm sorry, but china's actions in this case are suspicious and should be scrutinized.
The idea if diversification is threat mitigation. If one part of the company is down with a virus, the rest of the company can continue as normal; instead of telling everyone in the city to stay inside, you tell, for example, people with red hair to stay inside. Everyone else is unaffected and can continue normally. Yes, you may be at risk from more vectors, but each individual vector is less threatening to the continued survival of the system as a whole. It's simple business continuity practices, really.
Speak for yourself, not this nebulous "us". Some of us don't care if a product is GPL. Many slashdotters are more concerned about productivity than ideology, and Mr. Zimmerman is one of the good guys here.
Yes, national security is important. However, national security is different from warrantless wiretaps of millions of people, quite possibly in violation of the constitution, and of federal privacy laws. Don't forget about the rights of the nearly 300 million living innocent citizens when remembering the 3000 dead citizens; failing to remember peoples' rights makes you no better than Osama.
So I should be able to borrow your clothes anytime I want, right? After all, your clothes are part of your culture, therefore they should be free too, non? Face it, shit costs money, and $10/month is not astronomical, unless of course you've got some crappy job because you never bothered to apply yourself in your desire to stick it to the man.
Actually, Fujitsu was promoting COBOL, more specifically, a few of their extensions, as a CGI type language back in the late 90s. I picked a book on COBOL back in the day, course I never programed even hello world, because COBOL has a syntax only its mother could love.
So wait a minute, you're saying you don't have anything to prove that we're killing the earth, just that you've got this feeling? Sorta like how fundamentalist christians have a feeling that the rapture is around the corner? Explain how your beliefs are different from fundamentalist zealotry.
From what the article implies, it sounds like the firm is going to be doing most of the work themselves, and will probably just hire fieldhands to work the crop. They've probably got more than a few horticulturalists working for them, and keeping that part of the production line in-house is better for business -- higher yields would probably be attained, etc.
Yes, the long-term goal is to fix infrastructure. But that will take many decades. Is it not more ethical to fix the most horrid symptoms first, to ensure that some children have a better quality of life, than to be a pie in the sky idealist and say, "oh noes, that rice has human dna, run for the hills"?
Explain, oh great sagely prophet, how all life on earth will end if we perform genetic engineering. Be sure to cite examples as how our engineering is different from natural genetic engineering, ie, mutation.
Actually, most telcos offer an unlimited long distance plan as well. It's not as well-advertised as other plans, but is available. Usually costs about $30/month.
It's in a significant number of the daily papers; hell, USA Today, which is pretty much the most pulp of the big dailies, is even all over this story. Newsweek is giving extensive coverage of the issue. There's a lot of people who are indifferent, but a considerable number who are quite pissed off about the issue.
Dunno about the "scientific" ID people, but the new world creationists use this as part of the evidence that the world must be less than 10000 years old. The logic goes that this is just more evidence of the descent into chaos, and that the constant dynamo theory is bullshit and that we must all repent.
True, but I imagine that during the period where solar radiation would be problematic, we'd just have greater sales of substances like zinc oxide to block solar rays, Putting on sunscreen would be just like putting on a shirt in the morning.
Education is inexpensive, especially for those of moderate incomes. Pretty much everyone is eligible for grants, loans, etc, and there is always community colleges as well in order to get the basics out of the way.
Y'know, the more I read this thread, the more I come to the conclusion that you're a responsibility-shirking asshole who doesn't want to make the effort to ensure your own happiness. You'd rather blame your own stagnation on someone else than make an effort to improve your fare in life. You reap what you sow, and it appears you've sown a huge field of crabapples.
I tried running that IIS thing on my box. Doesn't seem to like FreeBSD for some reason. Is there some patch you know of that'll let me run it, because I really like my uptime and stability; I don't want to run on an inferior operating system.
The big issue is that SL is very bandwidth intensive. You'll increase performance a/lot/ if you give it more bandwidth to play with. At less than 100kbps, it's pretty much unplayable, and 250kbps is about minimal for decent performance.
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The difference is cooperation. The examples you mentioned all cooperate when takedown notices are served; the law states that as a hosting provider, you're off the hook as long as you meet certain criteria. TPB, OTOH, didn't comply, thus, are treated more harshly.
Why, because we should just roll over and allow a "standard" with no independent review, and outside foresight to be determining international standards? Especially considering that the nation creating the standards has a well-known history of spying and firewalling their own people to ensure they don't read "objectionable" material. I'm sorry, but china's actions in this case are suspicious and should be scrutinized.
The idea if diversification is threat mitigation. If one part of the company is down with a virus, the rest of the company can continue as normal; instead of telling everyone in the city to stay inside, you tell, for example, people with red hair to stay inside. Everyone else is unaffected and can continue normally. Yes, you may be at risk from more vectors, but each individual vector is less threatening to the continued survival of the system as a whole. It's simple business continuity practices, really.
Speak for yourself, not this nebulous "us". Some of us don't care if a product is GPL. Many slashdotters are more concerned about productivity than ideology, and Mr. Zimmerman is one of the good guys here.
Yes, national security is important. However, national security is different from warrantless wiretaps of millions of people, quite possibly in violation of the constitution, and of federal privacy laws. Don't forget about the rights of the nearly 300 million living innocent citizens when remembering the 3000 dead citizens; failing to remember peoples' rights makes you no better than Osama.
So I should be able to borrow your clothes anytime I want, right? After all, your clothes are part of your culture, therefore they should be free too, non? Face it, shit costs money, and $10/month is not astronomical, unless of course you've got some crappy job because you never bothered to apply yourself in your desire to stick it to the man.
Actually, Fujitsu was promoting COBOL, more specifically, a few of their extensions, as a CGI type language back in the late 90s. I picked a book on COBOL back in the day, course I never programed even hello world, because COBOL has a syntax only its mother could love.
So wait a minute, you're saying you don't have anything to prove that we're killing the earth, just that you've got this feeling? Sorta like how fundamentalist christians have a feeling that the rapture is around the corner? Explain how your beliefs are different from fundamentalist zealotry.
From what the article implies, it sounds like the firm is going to be doing most of the work themselves, and will probably just hire fieldhands to work the crop. They've probably got more than a few horticulturalists working for them, and keeping that part of the production line in-house is better for business -- higher yields would probably be attained, etc.
Yes, the long-term goal is to fix infrastructure. But that will take many decades. Is it not more ethical to fix the most horrid symptoms first, to ensure that some children have a better quality of life, than to be a pie in the sky idealist and say, "oh noes, that rice has human dna, run for the hills"?
Explain, oh great sagely prophet, how all life on earth will end if we perform genetic engineering. Be sure to cite examples as how our engineering is different from natural genetic engineering, ie, mutation.
Actually, most telcos offer an unlimited long distance plan as well. It's not as well-advertised as other plans, but is available. Usually costs about $30/month.
It's in a significant number of the daily papers; hell, USA Today, which is pretty much the most pulp of the big dailies, is even all over this story. Newsweek is giving extensive coverage of the issue. There's a lot of people who are indifferent, but a considerable number who are quite pissed off about the issue.
Dunno about the "scientific" ID people, but the new world creationists use this as part of the evidence that the world must be less than 10000 years old. The logic goes that this is just more evidence of the descent into chaos, and that the constant dynamo theory is bullshit and that we must all repent.
It's doing a pretty good job. Degaussing takes a second, and things go all wonky during that time. 2000-3000 years is nothing on a geological scale.
No, because we don't use jupiter's pole in the interim. This is more of a RAIP - Redundant Array of Independent Poles.
True, but I imagine that during the period where solar radiation would be problematic, we'd just have greater sales of substances like zinc oxide to block solar rays, Putting on sunscreen would be just like putting on a shirt in the morning.
Education is inexpensive, especially for those of moderate incomes. Pretty much everyone is eligible for grants, loans, etc, and there is always community colleges as well in order to get the basics out of the way.
So move. Sometimes the most prudent choice is to go someplace that doesn't suck.
Y'know, the more I read this thread, the more I come to the conclusion that you're a responsibility-shirking asshole who doesn't want to make the effort to ensure your own happiness. You'd rather blame your own stagnation on someone else than make an effort to improve your fare in life. You reap what you sow, and it appears you've sown a huge field of crabapples.
We're also in a) a housing bubble and b) a period of economic growth. Of course construction jobs are going to be up.
Most of us didn't vote for bush, dumbshit.
Have you tried using 2.2 with mod_security as the frontend to handle the vulnerabilities, with 2.0.55 handling the coldfusion support on the backend?
I tried running that IIS thing on my box. Doesn't seem to like FreeBSD for some reason. Is there some patch you know of that'll let me run it, because I really like my uptime and stability; I don't want to run on an inferior operating system.
The big issue is that SL is very bandwidth intensive. You'll increase performance a /lot/ if you give it more bandwidth to play with. At less than 100kbps, it's pretty much unplayable, and 250kbps is about minimal for decent performance.