With this I agree. It seems that the problem is with the implementation rather than the intent.
For many years, though, it appears that the purpose of speeding tickets has been changed to be a source of revenue. A couple of police officers that I knew a few years ago were complaining to me about having to meet their quotas. One of them told me that he started telling new officers to not write very many tickets in their first six months in the department, as that would become the basline for their monthly quota.
I have heard of police programs where they put fake police cars on the highways to keep people driving within the speed limit, and this seems to fit better with the intent of traffic-policing than the cameras.
Cars have a much shorter stopping distance that large trucks. As long as you're not tailgating, you can easily avoid hitting a jacknifed or overturned truck.
I would prefer to have the problem of having to stop and wait for an accident to be cleared up than to have the problem of having an 18-wheeler run over my car because the driver was asleep. That's why.
Make the government maintaining the camera network cost more than they gain in ticket revenue.
I think you missed the point of the parent post. If the cameras are mis-calibrated, then they will be taking pics of people who ARE NOT speeding, and sending them tickets. Of course these people are going to fight it. If the cost of maintaining the camera network properly (so it does not screw innocent people) outweighs the revenue generated by the cameras, then that should be cause for a review of the validity of the program.
Yeah, that advice really helps when I'm trying to pass an 18-wheeler whose driver is nodding off.
Personally, I would rather be behind the 18-wheeler in this case than in front. My reaction time would be a lot shorter than theirs. The same applies to being behind someone who is swerving all over the road and may be drunk.
BSD and Linux need to stop fighting, because they're both open source, and because they really have a common enemy.
That is exactly what I was trying to say too. I guess I could have been more clear. Sometimes, you could hit me upside the head with a brick....:)
The problem with these "holy wars"* is that there are seemingly brainwashed people on both sides who think that they can win the other side over by arguing, while only using sweeping generalizations with nothing to back them up.
* Holy wars in this context: - vi -vs- emacs - Windows -vs- Linux / BSD - BSD -vs- Linux - Other stuff which would be OT.
Ok. I understand now. You do have a point there, as the article seems more geared towards the larger businesses.
Things like Open Office, TurboCash (Windows only) which includes POS for retail folks. I'm not too sure about tax software. Even closed source tax applications for business are pretty difficult to maintain.
It would be interesting if somebody were to write an article that included absolutely everything a business could need, from the desktop applications, through database, financial, reporting, tax, web, OS, etc..., maybe categorized by small business, meduim-sized, and enterprise.
The list of packages seems to be the sort of stuff that PHBs piss company money away on after they already have the bare essentials. How about a list of the bare essentials instead?
So are you implying that ERP (specifically Financial), telephony, and CRM are not part of the bare essentials? Retailers don't need POS? Every business where I've worked has had many of these types of applications. What, in your mind, is critical (bare essentials) to business that is not on the list (besides database, and web - which was pointed out in an earlier thread)?
Disclaimer: I'm not a PHB. Not even a B. Just a lowly lackey.
Even better, a lot of those legal fees for delaying tactics go to his brother.
If this is true (and I have not researched it so I don't know), then the shareholders can file a class against him for breach of fiduciary duty. Also, there may even be a criminal case against both brothers for fraud.
Because essentially, the more support an OS has (especially an open source one), the more usability it creates, the more new ideas flow into it, the more hardware vendors create drivers for it, etc.
I think the point that the GP was trying to make was that everybody involved in these BSD -vs- Linux flame wars already supports their favorite OS, and one is not likely to convert the other. The important thing here is that they all support something that IS open source (be it BSD or Linux), and not something that is closed source. This energy would be better expended by converting users of closed source OSs to open source, rather than preaching to the converted. IMHO, these "holy wars" are really pointless, as everybody really is on the same side (as pointed out by the OP).
Seems like you are both in violent agreement. As am I. The cycle of government party leadership appears to go something like this:
republicans in power - "reduce" government by outsourcing and privatizing everything (basically, giving the governmenet away to their friends). Give tax breaks to said friends.
democrats in power - enlarge government by having it buy back all of the departments (from their friends), at enormous profit. Give tax breaks to said friends.
The worst thing about this is that the referenced friends are the same for both parties. Corruption at maximum efficiency.
The only way to break this cycle is to get THEM ALL out of office, from the local levels all the way through federal. The citizens of this country need to be informed, angry, and get off of their asses.
Many distros, like deadrat or mandrake, are designed to be edited with tools, and you can see that easily, by looking at the way some config files are written.
That's a good point. Going from one distro to another is usually a PITA since all of the config files are in different places. And I have found most vendor-provided tools fairly lacking, and script things myself too.
Perhaps the only real use for these tools (not homegrown) is as part of the attempts to make the OSs more user-friendly for the average Joe-Sixpack. Even in that regard, there is still a long way to go.
You are correct (obviously) about Linux being the kernel. I disagree with your comment about "a real sysadmin," however.
Tools that come with most distributions may or may not provide full control / functionality, but a real sysadmin understands what these tools do, and can choose not to use the tools and do things manually if the tools cannot perform the necessary tasks. If necessary, a real sysadmin can write their own tools.
Automating redundant tasks enables real sysadmins to focus on more important and critical things. Not everything has to be done the hard way all the time.
From my experience, that's true. I went this weekend with a friend to see the movie, and the majority of the people there were in the 20-40 range and they did not have kids with them. Of about 50 people in the theater, maybe 10 kids.
The distance between overzealous defense and terrorism, no matter (and more likely especially) how intense your sense of righteous indignation is, is a short one.
I agree with you wholeheartedly there. It is a very fine line. I try very hard not to cross it, and this time, it may be possible that I jumped the gun. There are, however, many things that I read/see/hear about from international and independent media that never seems to get any coverage in the US (I covered this all in this comment).
Maybe my tinfoil hat fits a bit too tightly;)
I do think that it is a citizen's duty to keep an eye on their government, though, and to make sure that said gov't knows that the people are watching. Even withour the tinfoil hats, this can be useful.
This applies to governments too: The distance between overzealous defense and terrorism, no matter (and more likely especially) how intense your sense of righteous indignation is, is a short one.
If only I could live my life as a bimbo... Ahhhh, the blissful peace of ignorance. Sometimes I think that would be nice.
Ok. Flame being finished, I can see the flaw in my logic regarding the request for logs -vs- the seizure of servers. If you had bothered to read this comment, you would have already known that I have already admitted that I may be wrong.
No reason to flame, though. It does not help your argument in the slightest.
"...consistent with the Telecommunications Act, to provide for a procompetitive, deregulatory national policy framework; on how to simplify and reduce common carrier reporting requirements..."
spent billions of dollars over many years to build and an infrastructure
Taxpayer's dollars.
some other company will come along and find a way to provide the same or better service for a lower price
If only this were the case. Any other company that wants to compete will find it difficult if not impossible to have access to the public rights-of-way in order to lay their own infrastructure. That is the reason that these regulations were originally put in place: an attempt to level the playing field, and make the market more competitive.
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For many years, though, it appears that the purpose of speeding tickets has been changed to be a source of revenue. A couple of police officers that I knew a few years ago were complaining to me about having to meet their quotas. One of them told me that he started telling new officers to not write very many tickets in their first six months in the department, as that would become the basline for their monthly quota.
I have heard of police programs where they put fake police cars on the highways to keep people driving within the speed limit, and this seems to fit better with the intent of traffic-policing than the cameras.
I would prefer to have the problem of having to stop and wait for an accident to be cleared up than to have the problem of having an 18-wheeler run over my car because the driver was asleep. That's why.
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'Nuff said
Are you telling me that a webserver actually logs a requesting IP address? Does this apply to all websites?
Man, I'm trading in my computer for an abacus.
BTW, what does a webserver logging IP addresses have to do with the CEO's personal information?
I think you missed the point of the parent post. If the cameras are mis-calibrated, then they will be taking pics of people who ARE NOT speeding, and sending them tickets. Of course these people are going to fight it. If the cost of maintaining the camera network properly (so it does not screw innocent people) outweighs the revenue generated by the cameras, then that should be cause for a review of the validity of the program.
Personally, I would rather be behind the 18-wheeler in this case than in front. My reaction time would be a lot shorter than theirs. The same applies to being behind someone who is swerving all over the road and may be drunk.
BSD and Linux need to stop fighting, because they're both open source, and because they really have a common enemy.
That is exactly what I was trying to say too. I guess I could have been more clear. Sometimes, you could hit me upside the head with a brick.... :)
The problem with these "holy wars"* is that there are seemingly brainwashed people on both sides who think that they can win the other side over by arguing, while only using sweeping generalizations with nothing to back them up.
* Holy wars in this context:
- vi -vs- emacs
- Windows -vs- Linux / BSD
- BSD -vs- Linux
- Other stuff which would be OT.
Could even be a site run by an employee-owned company that does implementation and support consulting for such things.
Things like Open Office, TurboCash (Windows only) which includes POS for retail folks. I'm not too sure about tax software. Even closed source tax applications for business are pretty difficult to maintain.
It would be interesting if somebody were to write an article that included absolutely everything a business could need, from the desktop applications, through database, financial, reporting, tax, web, OS, etc..., maybe categorized by small business, meduim-sized, and enterprise.
How about a list of the bare essentials instead?
So are you implying that ERP (specifically Financial), telephony, and CRM are not part of the bare essentials? Retailers don't need POS? Every business where I've worked has had many of these types of applications. What, in your mind, is critical (bare essentials) to business that is not on the list (besides database, and web - which was pointed out in an earlier thread)?
Disclaimer: I'm not a PHB. Not even a B. Just a lowly lackey.
Please explain how you make this connection. Really, I'm curious.
What makes open source better, just that fact?
You answered part of that with your next question. Just for S&Gs, I'll point out a few other reasons why FOSS is better:
- Free, as in beer.
- Faster availability of patches / updates
- Availability of source for customization
- Applications and OSs written by people out of the love of doing it, rather than fear of being fired, usually leading to better quality
Performance and reliability are unimportant?RTFP. Neither I nor the GGGP said that.
Down with corporations, drag the moneylenders into the streets and lynch them?
Get a clue. This has nothing to with the discussion at hand. Who said anything about corporations, or moneylenders?
Please.
Finally, something on which we can agree ;)
If this is true (and I have not researched it so I don't know), then the shareholders can file a class against him for breach of fiduciary duty. Also, there may even be a criminal case against both brothers for fraud.
That would be Karma. :)
I think the point that the GP was trying to make was that everybody involved in these BSD -vs- Linux flame wars already supports their favorite OS, and one is not likely to convert the other. The important thing here is that they all support something that IS open source (be it BSD or Linux), and not something that is closed source. This energy would be better expended by converting users of closed source OSs to open source, rather than preaching to the converted. IMHO, these "holy wars" are really pointless, as everybody really is on the same side (as pointed out by the OP).
Seems like you are both in violent agreement. As am I. The cycle of government party leadership appears to go something like this:
The worst thing about this is that the referenced friends are the same for both parties. Corruption at maximum efficiency.
The only way to break this cycle is to get THEM ALL out of office, from the local levels all the way through federal. The citizens of this country need to be informed, angry, and get off of their asses.
That's a good point. Going from one distro to another is usually a PITA since all of the config files are in different places. And I have found most vendor-provided tools fairly lacking, and script things myself too.
Perhaps the only real use for these tools (not homegrown) is as part of the attempts to make the OSs more user-friendly for the average Joe-Sixpack. Even in that regard, there is still a long way to go.
It has already been proven that the moon is made of cheese.
Man, I've really got to slow down while reading. I misread this as, "worms searching for PHB urls are bad, m-kay."
Hmmmm... :)
Tools that come with most distributions may or may not provide full control / functionality, but a real sysadmin understands what these tools do, and can choose not to use the tools and do things manually if the tools cannot perform the necessary tasks. If necessary, a real sysadmin can write their own tools.
Automating redundant tasks enables real sysadmins to focus on more important and critical things. Not everything has to be done the hard way all the time.
Seems ot me that this has more appeal to adults.
They may have died because they don't understand German. :)
I agree with you wholeheartedly there. It is a very fine line. I try very hard not to cross it, and this time, it may be possible that I jumped the gun. There are, however, many things that I read/see/hear about from international and independent media that never seems to get any coverage in the US (I covered this all in this comment).
Maybe my tinfoil hat fits a bit too tightly ;)
I do think that it is a citizen's duty to keep an eye on their government, though, and to make sure that said gov't knows that the people are watching. Even withour the tinfoil hats, this can be useful.
This applies to governments too:
The distance between overzealous defense and terrorism, no matter (and more likely especially) how intense your sense of righteous indignation is, is a short one.
If only I could live my life as a bimbo... Ahhhh, the blissful peace of ignorance. Sometimes I think that would be nice.
Ok. Flame being finished, I can see the flaw in my logic regarding the request for logs -vs- the seizure of servers. If you had bothered to read this comment, you would have already known that I have already admitted that I may be wrong.
No reason to flame, though. It does not help your argument in the slightest.
"...consistent with the Telecommunications Act, to provide for a procompetitive, deregulatory national policy framework; on how to simplify and reduce common carrier reporting requirements..."
Here is the text of the act.
Perhaps the real effect of this was regulation of these companies; I can see that too.
I thougt it quite humorous, and some may even argue that going from XP to Win2K is an upgrade. :)
Taxpayer's dollars.
some other company will come along and find a way to provide the same or better service for a lower price
If only this were the case. Any other company that wants to compete will find it difficult if not impossible to have access to the public rights-of-way in order to lay their own infrastructure. That is the reason that these regulations were originally put in place: an attempt to level the playing field, and make the market more competitive.