The basic dispute was NOT that the information should not be released to Karl but rather whether Karl had absolute discretion to decide what information could be released on the public.
So Cerf didn't allow a director to have the information because he was afraid the director might disclose some of it to the public, despite the law (as the judge found) clearly giving any director the right to that information? The only legal and proper course would have been to release the information immediately to the director with - if considered necessary - a warning about which sections were claimed to be proprietary by one party or another. Then if the director released any of that "proprietary" info the party claiming it would have a right to file suit against the director.
Cerf should be ashamed. ICANN should be shut down. His defense - that other not-for-profits are even shadier - should not be tolerated in the current business climate. It's like saying we should give a blank check to corruption at any company that's less corrupt than Enron!
In six months of being on the New York State Do Not Call List I've found it quite affective, especially against AT&T cellular, which was calling at least every week despite being asked every time to take me off their list. You'd think a phone company would know federal law on this? Naturally I will NEVER buy anything from AT&T - and urge you not to either. Meanwhile, this is one gov. program NYS actually runs well - perhaps the only one.
Given that computing is an area where your best programmer or sysadmin is worth ten of your average programmers or sysadmins (at least), the question for success isn't "Should company A outsource or handle function X inhouse?" but "Under what arrangement can company A get the most best programmers and sysadmins stroking its systems?"
The answer to this might be succeptible to empirical study. On the one side, some bright, capable people like regular hours and good benefits; on the other some like irregular hours and independence. And - a different question - some may be more bright and capable in the one circumstance than the other.
But the central question is: What business model brings in the best IT people, in whatever formal (or informal) capacity? And on the informal side, if you bring in open source techies, to what extent are they bringing in a large part of the open source community as unpaid accomplices, and how much brilliant capability comes in by that route?
Of course, your business model also has to consist of - well - a business. The.com VC model of "Pile a bunch of sugar here and let the bright, capable ones feed on it, the concentration of them will be enough for success" was stupid, stupid, stupid. Still, given a going business, it's getting the best crew on the oars that matters, not whether their economic relationship to you is that of slaves or sportsmen or enlisted men - except insofar as the relationship type is coherent with engaging a superior crew.
And the faster more business crew effectively, the more their competitors will try to emulate them, and the happier techies in general will be with our prospects - except for the incompetents (many of whom seem to presently have jobs with hosting services) who should be driven out of the field.
So, if all we have with this new thingie is the second largest Kuiper Belt object after Pluto - so what? Isn't the news play just about trying to get more funding from the fine fellows who've identified it, which is more likely if the headlines scream "Tenth Planet!" What a cynical abuse of the press. Science should stop grubbing, and strive for purity of purpose, lest the results themselves be corrupted. Prostitution just isn't the same as free love.
This must be a big part of the reason why HIV rates among black women are way up. With more black men going to prison than college - usually for violating drug prohibition (for which mostly blacks, not whites are arrested, despite drug use being fairly constant across populations) - and then getting involved in prison sex either willingly or not - and then going back to heterosexuality when they're out, and not telling their wives and girlfriends about the shame of prison... we have a government which is damn close to conducting genocide against the black population. This is cleverer than giving blankets with smallpox to the Indians.
But massive public displays of pot smoking in the 60s didn't do much for reforming the laws. Civil disobedience may be overrated. All that happens is the cops make their quota going after the minorities and the poor - those without the political connections to give them trouble over it.
Treeline is a very usable outliner/PIM/simple database that runs on both Windows and Linux. It's author, Doug Bell also has several other programs including a very nice calculator, a unit conversion utility, and a route planner for pilots.
Yeah, in my logs that stuff is from the same IPs that there's then the buffer overflow attempt from. Unfortunately, those spurious handshakes also create a short-term DOS situation - they keep Apache awfully busy. Has anyone come up with a way to block the spurious attempts with, say, iptables, while keeping legitimate 443 service open?
Let's say you notice that my Ford Pinto is likely to explode. But there's a law in place that says that Ford can sue you if you tell me, because that violates their crash security, which consists in not letting people who might be malicious know that the rear end of a Pinto could be a tempting target.
Now let's say you notice that my HP server is likely to be compromised. But there's a law in place that says HP can sue you if you tell me, because that violates their cracker security, which consists in not letting people who might be malicious know that the rear door of an HP could be a tempting target.
Exactly why should HP deserve a legal protection that no sane person would give to Ford, when in both cases the customers are far better off with the knowledge?
Some years ago I was returning to this fine country on a round-the-world set of tickets and entering through LAX with a backpack. I was singled out and taken into a small room by a large agent (I'm 6'6", but he had a hundred pounds on me). The interrogation basically consisted of his asking a couple of dumb questions, then grabbing my balls. Then he ordered me to hold my hand out. He said, "See, it's shaking." What could I say? "Oh I always get excited when a large black man grabs my balls", or "Yes, that's because I'm terribly guilty, just tell me of what"? I said nothing; he let me go.
Anyway, that's what passed for sophisticated screening back when they were real concerned about young tourists coming back from Taiwan, where my passport showed I'd spent the last few months. Consider where it goes when they not only look to see if you're somehow unusual, but make sure your credit history is thoroughly mainstream, and you're not behind on college loans, and they haven't correlated your/. handle and posts with your passport ID... a whole lot of people getting grabbed by the balls for nothing but the fun of the customs a*holes, and a lucky few getting indefinite detention without charges or legal representation, or even publication of their names.
Of course 80% of Americans don't even have a passport, so it's just the coastal elites and foreigners who will complain. Who needs foreign travel when we can always visit Texas? To view anything more primitive, colorful or barbaric than what we can find in Texas you'd have to find the last tribe of canibals in the last acre of rain forest... and that's about gone anyway. Ah, America, fast becoming the Texas of the world.
If Joe Stupid sets up his Win box so that there are some public shares exposed to the Net, and everything in those shares is owned by Joe, then isn't it the case that there is no theft of IP until someone like Ishikawa comes along and steals a copy? Can we ask his ISP to shut him down for this pattern of theft? Doesn't the DMCA impell them to comply?
Is it really this case that I can't keep goods I own anywhere they might be stolen from, if those goods involve someone else's IP? There are buildings that are trademarked (the Space Needle in Seattle, for instance). You can't take commercial photos of them without the trademark owners' permissions. And they keep those buildings right out in the open, where anyone could just take a snapshot. But no-one blames the building owner who hasn't done a Cristo on his building for the theft of the IP when this happens.
2) Journalled file systems mean fast re-boots on power outages
They mean faster reboots period because they never need to be checked on boot - so you don't get that annoying "Ahem, you've rebooted too many times, I'm going to check your hard drive while your client, who's looking over you shoulder, wonders why you re-assured him you'd only have his production server down for half a minute to install the new kernel, and I'm spending 5 minutes scanning his drives."
Of course you can turn off those checks on ext2 too, but that would be stupid.
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In response to those posting stuff like, "Clinton appointed tree huggers; turnabout is fair play": There's a real question of whether our leaders want to lead from a "commanding position." A commanding position is one in which they have the best perspective, which requires the best advice from all sides. If you look at Clinton's compromise on the NW forests, you'll see that whatever you think of how the compromise was balanced, he had advice from all sides, and showed evidence of awareness of that advice in his own final position.
The point is, the leader needs an overview. That's why the general stands on the hill over the battle; why the CEO has a corner office high on the tower; why the pharoah is symbolized by the pyramid, and the pyramid crowned by the eye.
Instead, in Bush, we have someone who wants to lead not from a high perspective that folds into itself the partial perspectives from those with lower vantages, but from the trenches, convinced that the only higher perspective he needs is that of the God who put him there - a God at whose right hand, if you trace the money, was Enron.
From the article:
"It's always a matter of qualifications first and foremost," Pierce said. "There's no quotas on any of this stuff. There's no litmus test of any kind."
At least one nationally renowned academic, who was recently called by an administration official to talk about serving on an HHS advisory committee, disagreed with that assessment. To the candidate's surprise, the official asked for the professor's views on embryo cell research, cloning and physician-assisted suicide. After that, the candidate said, the interviewer told the candidate that the position would have to go to someone else because the candidate's views did not match those of the administration.
Asked to reconcile that experience with his previous assurance, Pierce said of the interview questions: "Those are not litmus tests."
This being a consensus reality, the next likeable person who comes along with 118, we should just all agree, "She's got it!"
Skepticism is the main impediment to the progress of science; that and jealousy in the profession, where there are a dozen naysayers to everyone who'd discover something obvious (like: after 117 the elements should just stop - of course there's a 118, so let's let someone have the fun of declaring it discovered). Compare computer science, where Windows is a great OS simply because so many people believe in it. Science should sometimes humble itself before the example of technology.
The whole reason the Web took off is that HTML started not only as a standard, but as a simple and forgiving standard, thus allowing people to publish to the Web according to their passion rather than according to their ability to cross the t and dot the i in some bureaucrat's scheme of compliance.
But actually Mozilla is still quite forgiving as long as you don't specify a doctype you haven't actually written to. IE isn't really so bad, either.
HTML should return to its original strength of simplicity. HTML code should have a minimum of noise, and maximize content. Good design is not the same thing as gimmicky fluff. Plan words with a few pictures can tell almost any story worth telling among human beings. Good design gets out of the way and lets the words and pictures speak. It's only the gimmicks which go obsolete, never good design.
I was right with you until you said, "May the victims of 9/11, the starved to death children of Iraq, and online rights all rest in peace." Man, it's clear you think the US has starved children to death in Iraq. If you can believe that, you are the enemy. As you should be well aware, the UN has allowed Iraq to sell all the oil it wants in exchange for food. The Iraqui government has instead chosen to starve some of its own people to make a propaganda point. And there you are repeating it like a nitwit.
Let's get this right. People who consent to live under tyrany deserve both the tyrany and their own distruction if that tyrany threatens the world. I know this one cuts both ways - we've got to get the tyranical tendencies of our Attorney General and Vice President under control. But so far we're still running a democracy, and forgive us if we get a bit pissed off when idiots like you side with the Iraqui propaganda machine. You do not deserve an American education or any other favors from us while you embrace that sort of - not just idiocy, but a moral stance as bad as Hitler's. You take care of Saddam and the foul swine promoting Wahabbi-ism out of Saudi Arabia, and we'll get back to our naturally angelic natures. Otherwise, Allah have mercy on you.
Who wants to go to 2 and discover you've got your pants down? With the only point of 2.0 being to have an Apache that runs faster on Windows, the only upgrade that makes sense is for Windows admins to go to *nix. Why would *nix admins go to a less-tested, less-secure, less-understood server? Hope the major module writers never port to this bastard child.
Manufacturers who provide Linux support are enabling their users. In my modest life experience, those people and organizations that are more generous in enabling others are also more likely (not a perfect correlation, but a significant one) to be honest and straightforward in other ways. Openness tends to generalize across dimensions.
So why isn't there more than one god? Keep in mind that the Qaeda don't want to kill us because we worship a different, single god, but because they see us as worshipping a number of gods - as being polytheists. But if there's one god, why not many? And when Jehovah says "Worship no other god before me," isn't he agreeing that there are many? But if there are many, why should any one of them be singled out to be worshipped, and the rest condemned? (Check out Milton's Paradise Lost on this big question.) Some of us might prefer to believe that the universe was created by a single architect, rather than a committee - but that's our preference, not the necessary reality. And maybe the committee just, whatever its conflicts, made up a really good team. Just because we do committees poorly, does that mean gods might not be better at it?
If there are many gods - and again, if there's one, why not many; what kind of ecological niche has but a single individual in it? - then while some gods may be preferable to others in various contexts, the most evil of gods is a god who insists that the other gods are not worthy of worship and respect. I'll leave deduction of the names of these evil gods as an exercise for the reader (but pay attention to who our worst enemies (domestically as well as internationally) worship, and look to ideologies other than "religion" too).
But isn't Wall really a polytheist? Looks to me like he's made the sow's ear of Christianity into a purse that can hold the treasures of many gods, rather than being the exclusive sort of evil I've despised above. Similarly the midaeval Xians retained a healthy dose of polytheism by transforming many of the old gods into archangels and saints - a kludge, but a good one until free worship of the many gods can be fully restored.
"Private" & "public" are not monoliths or monocultures. I've seen very good work conditions in both sectors - nice people, challenging work, reasonable rewards, good work environment; and very sucko conditions in both sectors - dominated by people scamming to get by without honestly doing much that's useful. On the sucko side, the most ambitious scam artists gravitate to the private sector until they have advanced far enough there to get elected or appointed into the higher levels of the public sector. Folks scamming the public sector at the lower levels are lazy, not greedy - so if you can stay out of the departments where they predominate you're cool. And most public institutions have some departments that, locally speaking, are good places. Keep your ear to the ground and you can transfer into them, especially once they recognize your own attitude is good, so you'll be a fit.
On the private sector side, if you want less stress, choose your industry wisely. A friend switched from investment banking to insurance here in NYC, and, guess what, insurance is still the same old lazy industry it's been for centuries, quite resembling the ideal government backwater, for those attracted to such locales.
With all the former customers for fiber hardware gone south for an extended winter, how many adjacent homes with a common interest in fiber would it take to make it economical, using hardware that ought to be presently available cheap? I'm not talking public right-of-way, but private, if say I and 20 of my neighbors can work out to string a local fiber net between our properties. So the cost would be fiber plus hardware plus leasing a line in plus some Linux boxen for routing and whatever local services the co-op wanted to run. What would the local fiber plus hardware come to? How many ways would a fiber line into the block need to be split before rent on the thing got under $100 a month per co-op member?
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So Cerf didn't allow a director to have the information because he was afraid the director might disclose some of it to the public, despite the law (as the judge found) clearly giving any director the right to that information? The only legal and proper course would have been to release the information immediately to the director with - if considered necessary - a warning about which sections were claimed to be proprietary by one party or another. Then if the director released any of that "proprietary" info the party claiming it would have a right to file suit against the director.
Cerf should be ashamed. ICANN should be shut down. His defense - that other not-for-profits are even shadier - should not be tolerated in the current business climate. It's like saying we should give a blank check to corruption at any company that's less corrupt than Enron!
In six months of being on the New York State Do Not Call List I've found it quite affective, especially against AT&T cellular, which was calling at least every week despite being asked every time to take me off their list. You'd think a phone company would know federal law on this? Naturally I will NEVER buy anything from AT&T - and urge you not to either. Meanwhile, this is one gov. program NYS actually runs well - perhaps the only one.
Lately it's been in the news that polar bears are showing up hermaphroditic due to being at top top of the food chain at the top of the world. It's also reported that the melting polar ice cap may make polar bears extinct. So there's really no need to worry about the hermaphroditic thing, see? Doubtless Nature has a similar plan to take care of the discarded cell phone "problem."
The answer to this might be succeptible to empirical study. On the one side, some bright, capable people like regular hours and good benefits; on the other some like irregular hours and independence. And - a different question - some may be more bright and capable in the one circumstance than the other.
But the central question is: What business model brings in the best IT people, in whatever formal (or informal) capacity? And on the informal side, if you bring in open source techies, to what extent are they bringing in a large part of the open source community as unpaid accomplices, and how much brilliant capability comes in by that route?
Of course, your business model also has to consist of - well - a business. The .com VC model of "Pile a bunch of sugar here and let the bright, capable ones feed on it, the concentration of them will be enough for success" was stupid, stupid, stupid. Still, given a going business, it's getting the best crew on the oars that matters, not whether their economic relationship to you is that of slaves or sportsmen or enlisted men - except insofar as the relationship type is coherent with engaging a superior crew.
And the faster more business crew effectively, the more their competitors will try to emulate them, and the happier techies in general will be with our prospects - except for the incompetents (many of whom seem to presently have jobs with hosting services) who should be driven out of the field.
So, if all we have with this new thingie is the second largest Kuiper Belt object after Pluto - so what? Isn't the news play just about trying to get more funding from the fine fellows who've identified it, which is more likely if the headlines scream "Tenth Planet!" What a cynical abuse of the press. Science should stop grubbing, and strive for purity of purpose, lest the results themselves be corrupted. Prostitution just isn't the same as free love.
But massive public displays of pot smoking in the 60s didn't do much for reforming the laws. Civil disobedience may be overrated. All that happens is the cops make their quota going after the minorities and the poor - those without the political connections to give them trouble over it.
Treeline is a very usable outliner/PIM/simple database that runs on both Windows and Linux. It's author, Doug Bell also has several other programs including a very nice calculator, a unit conversion utility, and a route planner for pilots.
Yeah, in my logs that stuff is from the same IPs that there's then the buffer overflow attempt from. Unfortunately, those spurious handshakes also create a short-term DOS situation - they keep Apache awfully busy. Has anyone come up with a way to block the spurious attempts with, say, iptables, while keeping legitimate 443 service open?
Now let's say you notice that my HP server is likely to be compromised. But there's a law in place that says HP can sue you if you tell me, because that violates their cracker security, which consists in not letting people who might be malicious know that the rear door of an HP could be a tempting target.
Exactly why should HP deserve a legal protection that no sane person would give to Ford, when in both cases the customers are far better off with the knowledge?
Anyway, that's what passed for sophisticated screening back when they were real concerned about young tourists coming back from Taiwan, where my passport showed I'd spent the last few months. Consider where it goes when they not only look to see if you're somehow unusual, but make sure your credit history is thoroughly mainstream, and you're not behind on college loans, and they haven't correlated your /. handle and posts with your passport ID ... a whole lot of people getting grabbed by the balls for nothing but the fun of the customs a*holes, and a lucky few getting indefinite detention without charges or legal representation, or even publication of their names.
Of course 80% of Americans don't even have a passport, so it's just the coastal elites and foreigners who will complain. Who needs foreign travel when we can always visit Texas? To view anything more primitive, colorful or barbaric than what we can find in Texas you'd have to find the last tribe of canibals in the last acre of rain forest ... and that's about gone anyway. Ah, America, fast becoming the Texas of the world.
Is it really this case that I can't keep goods I own anywhere they might be stolen from, if those goods involve someone else's IP? There are buildings that are trademarked (the Space Needle in Seattle, for instance). You can't take commercial photos of them without the trademark owners' permissions. And they keep those buildings right out in the open, where anyone could just take a snapshot. But no-one blames the building owner who hasn't done a Cristo on his building for the theft of the IP when this happens.
Do you expect a real pot of gold at the end of this rainbow?
They mean faster reboots period because they never need to be checked on boot - so you don't get that annoying "Ahem, you've rebooted too many times, I'm going to check your hard drive while your client, who's looking over you shoulder, wonders why you re-assured him you'd only have his production server down for half a minute to install the new kernel, and I'm spending 5 minutes scanning his drives."
Of course you can turn off those checks on ext2 too, but that would be stupid.
The point is, the leader needs an overview. That's why the general stands on the hill over the battle; why the CEO has a corner office high on the tower; why the pharoah is symbolized by the pyramid, and the pyramid crowned by the eye.
Instead, in Bush, we have someone who wants to lead not from a high perspective that folds into itself the partial perspectives from those with lower vantages, but from the trenches, convinced that the only higher perspective he needs is that of the God who put him there - a God at whose right hand, if you trace the money, was Enron.
From the article:
Skepticism is the main impediment to the progress of science; that and jealousy in the profession, where there are a dozen naysayers to everyone who'd discover something obvious (like: after 117 the elements should just stop - of course there's a 118, so let's let someone have the fun of declaring it discovered). Compare computer science, where Windows is a great OS simply because so many people believe in it. Science should sometimes humble itself before the example of technology.
Now if we can just get them to recognize that the legitimate government of China sits in Taipei....
But actually Mozilla is still quite forgiving as long as you don't specify a doctype you haven't actually written to. IE isn't really so bad, either.
HTML should return to its original strength of simplicity. HTML code should have a minimum of noise, and maximize content. Good design is not the same thing as gimmicky fluff. Plan words with a few pictures can tell almost any story worth telling among human beings. Good design gets out of the way and lets the words and pictures speak. It's only the gimmicks which go obsolete, never good design.
Let's get this right. People who consent to live under tyrany deserve both the tyrany and their own distruction if that tyrany threatens the world. I know this one cuts both ways - we've got to get the tyranical tendencies of our Attorney General and Vice President under control. But so far we're still running a democracy, and forgive us if we get a bit pissed off when idiots like you side with the Iraqui propaganda machine. You do not deserve an American education or any other favors from us while you embrace that sort of - not just idiocy, but a moral stance as bad as Hitler's. You take care of Saddam and the foul swine promoting Wahabbi-ism out of Saudi Arabia, and we'll get back to our naturally angelic natures. Otherwise, Allah have mercy on you.
Also, Pinocchio, the one Disney cartoon masterpiece.
Then they can stop. Human civilization will have been completed.
As the map shows, about anywhere you go in Toronto, there's open access. Since there is no crime in Canada, this is not a problem, it's a feature.
Who wants to go to 2 and discover you've got your pants down? With the only point of 2.0 being to have an Apache that runs faster on Windows, the only upgrade that makes sense is for Windows admins to go to *nix. Why would *nix admins go to a less-tested, less-secure, less-understood server? Hope the major module writers never port to this bastard child.
Manufacturers who provide Linux support are enabling their users. In my modest life experience, those people and organizations that are more generous in enabling others are also more likely (not a perfect correlation, but a significant one) to be honest and straightforward in other ways. Openness tends to generalize across dimensions.
If there are many gods - and again, if there's one, why not many; what kind of ecological niche has but a single individual in it? - then while some gods may be preferable to others in various contexts, the most evil of gods is a god who insists that the other gods are not worthy of worship and respect. I'll leave deduction of the names of these evil gods as an exercise for the reader (but pay attention to who our worst enemies (domestically as well as internationally) worship, and look to ideologies other than "religion" too).
But isn't Wall really a polytheist? Looks to me like he's made the sow's ear of Christianity into a purse that can hold the treasures of many gods, rather than being the exclusive sort of evil I've despised above. Similarly the midaeval Xians retained a healthy dose of polytheism by transforming many of the old gods into archangels and saints - a kludge, but a good one until free worship of the many gods can be fully restored.
On the private sector side, if you want less stress, choose your industry wisely. A friend switched from investment banking to insurance here in NYC, and, guess what, insurance is still the same old lazy industry it's been for centuries, quite resembling the ideal government backwater, for those attracted to such locales.
With all the former customers for fiber hardware gone south for an extended winter, how many adjacent homes with a common interest in fiber would it take to make it economical, using hardware that ought to be presently available cheap? I'm not talking public right-of-way, but private, if say I and 20 of my neighbors can work out to string a local fiber net between our properties. So the cost would be fiber plus hardware plus leasing a line in plus some Linux boxen for routing and whatever local services the co-op wanted to run. What would the local fiber plus hardware come to? How many ways would a fiber line into the block need to be split before rent on the thing got under $100 a month per co-op member?