Murdoch Senior had a nasty habit at kicking the BBC in a similar manner. Nice to see Junior hasn't bothered to develop his own consciousness and has merely cloned his dad's. Seriously these rants translate as little more than a vain attempt to undermine the competition with cheap rhetoric designed to increase profit and feed ignorance. I mean when Dad's worth an estimated $4 billion world domination is about the only thing left to try, and the BBC as an a mostly impartial and independent media service is obviously standing in the way.
Anyone who is in any way swayed by Murdoch Junior's argument needs to read Noam Chomsky's book Manufacturing Consent and then needs to wake up to the fact that the BBC is perhaps the one media outlet that stands in the way of the frightening picture this book paints. After all the BBC is in a different industry in that they're about providing media to their audiences and news to the public, not audiences to their advertisers and propaganda to their punters.
I have an Atom here requesting recognition under the United Nations Universal Declaration of Rights. It's Hydrogen in a three way indeterminate state right now. I is currently uncertain what this means. Whatever the case it's got the power to go bang!
I'm with Virgin, so far all the download music I have is 'legal', but simply reading about this has me wondering how I could go about downloading illegal music to bring myself to their attention. Not that I especially wish to download illegal music. However, ISPs doing thing like this has me itching to cross the line, because it's simply so wrong. That said, I wonder if announcements like this don't make ISPs legally liable... after all, ISPs that don't spy on customers packets can claim neutrality, ISPs that do simply can't.
Of course ISPs in the UK are so caught up with their lack of bandwidth they are trying to get the BBC to cough up cash to expand their networks to cope with the traffic 'caused by iPlayer'. Odd that, the capability to do what the marketing has always claimed now exists and the suits are now crying foul.
As for the suits; I've found more acceptable forms of life stuck to the bottom of my boots.
If Safari becomes the default browser on these systems, you end up with critical vulnerabilities in a browser installed on non-tech-savvy individuals' computers.
Making it a perfect swap out replacement for IE then.
Seriously though, Apple's behaviour here is industry standard for the Windows world. So the story behind the story is actually Bitching and Whinging Confirms: Morons Without Clue Continue To Use Critically Vulnerable OS Family.
What's this going to do to the place where your mind lives? I only ask because in my universe this flip has already happened. Reality is broken, causality works in both directions, events in the past cause things in the future as before, but now I can see events in the future causing things in the past. I hear voices which come to me through the eternal now; and when I go looking I can see additional messages encoded within "fictional media". Simply trying to overcome the memetic virus embeded in my consciousness by my upbringing (you'd probably know it as Judeo-Christian religion) had me throwing myself of a bridge convinced I was the reincarnation of Judas. And when I discovered 'the beast' I found myself able to shapeshift, percieve the future, bend space and time, and unlock the secrets of the unconscious.
And if you think I've merely been watching Heroes and gotten confused, this all kicked off months before that show started, but somehow I've gotten entangled with it. The oddest thing in that regard has to be the conversation I had with the voice of Malcom McDowell then having him crop up as Mr Linderman several days later.
I do have an explination, but you're not going to like it.
Personally I simply wish I could fix my teeth so I could come to terms with all this without the distraction.
Hell, only a fool would accept a single source as authoritative. Wikipedia is great as a starting point, but then Googling is required to authoritatively ensure you're not passing along bogus info.
In short, over the years I've seen all sorts of communications technology (email, IM, cell phones, and so on) being blamed for various social maladies.
I think they do cause maladies. And they will continue to do so. Until we all develop the knack of ignoring things... and the realisation that being ignored does not imply rudeness.
> He says that the trick is to make the technology work for you
It seems to me the human race is hopeless at putting technology to work. Indeed, we'd rather we let technology put us to work.
An amusing anecdote to highlight the point.
I was standing in a queue at the doctors the other day, waiting to make an appointment. Only every time the phone rang the recepionist get flustersd and would take the call, and the queue got larger. Ten minutes I stood there. So I pulled out my mobile (getting several dirty looks and the odd outraged whisper from others in the queue)... When I finally got through asking for seven appointments shocked the receptionist somewhat. When I explaind I was calling on behalf of the queue which was right in front of her she was more than a little annoyed with me. But at least she stopped answering the phone.
Now. It seems to me that the receptionist was all to eager to let technology to dictate her behaviour. And in the process got stressed. A little bit of thought and she could have taken control... and been happy.
> He says that the trick is to make the technology work for you
It seems to me the human race is hopeless at putting technology to work. Indeed, we'd rather we let technology put us to work.
An amusing anecdote to highlight the point.
I was standing in a queue at the doctors the other day, waiting to make an appointment. Only every time the phone rang the recepionist would take the call, and the queue got larger. Ten minutes I stood there. So I pulled out my mobile (getting several dirty looks and the odd outraged whisper from others in the queue)... When I finally got through asking for seven appointments shocked the receptionist somewhat. When I explaind I was calling on behalf of the queue which was right in front of her she was more than a little annoyed with me. But at least she stopped answering the phone.
Now. It seems to me that the receptionist was all to eager to let technology to dictate her behaviour. And in the process got stressed. A little bit of thought and she could have taken control... and been happy.
WHY OH WHY are the only fuckers who realise this not resident in the UK? the public tide in this country (UK) is more anti than pro, and Labour/TB have been doing their level best to destroy the BBC's credibility*.
Personally I think the anti-BBC sentiment is spin. And just who who are the biggest spinners in the country? And which government friendly media mogul dislikes competition with the Beeb?
Most people I know think the BBC is good for us. Yet, sadly, most people I know also believe what they're told by the media. So they truly believe the majority of public opinion is anti-BBC.
Which leaves poor old Aunty rather defenceless when President Blair comes along with his chopper.
It seems to me that the religions of the world exist merely to provide people with reasons to hate - it's what they do best. So picking on the lil' beastie is to be expected. Sad, but expected.
Reading the article, one of the reasons for the change is: Has negative cultural, and religious ramifications.
Then under the judgement criteria: "Due to the issues identified above, the current NetBSD daemon character cannot be used. " and "It must be distinctive in the quality and originality of its visual image and not offend any national, cultural or religious sensitivity."
So I'd say, having read the article, that the NetBSD crowd consider the lil' beastie IS an issue.
Hitting them directly for routine queries is wasteful, inconsiderate, and expensive.
But could you not also say that running your own cache at the end of a leased line is better than everyone in your network querying your ISP to resolve every request?
I'd say it's cacheing and reasonable TTLs that contribute most to reducing the load on the DNS. But I've met DNS administrators who didn't have a clue about TTLs, setting them to "300" to make sure data that had not changed in years would always be "fresh". I've even seen implementations on DNS from an SQL DB that didnt even support the changing of the TTL.
Of course, ideally, you'd set your cache to forward first.
DNS time > Unix time... a lot of DNS systems (bind does this for example) will take the record with the largest number
But surely this applies only to the secondaries that transfer via AXFR? Most people deny general AXFRs and add explicit IPs of those who can, so they should know EXACTLY who needs to refresh the zones manually.
A couple of years ago I switched two standard DNS clusters onto a third unix epoch based DNS with no problems.
Gaffer's tape is completely different from Duct Tape.
Yes it is isnt it. Which is why I mentioned it not.
I may have foolishly used a possessive apostrophe where one was not called for ("it's") for which I'll obviously burn in hell. But I never once referred to the tape of the Gaffer. Although, confusingly, a Gaffer is an electrician, and the sparks are are always a good bet for obtaining a roll of gaffa.
Unfortunately, patching a leak in a space station is somewhat similar to taping a duct. And the only thing that duct tape is bad for is taping ducts
Which is why people who know call it by it's correct name "Gaffa Tape". Or simply "gaffa".
The rest of the world would call it gaffa tape too if only we could stop the persistent bickering on whether gaffa is spelt "gaffa" or "gaffer". Internecine battles asside, gaffa is without a doubt the most useful substance in the universe.
I'm sure it's not a major problem. And I'm sure it will be fixed soon. So "oh Bugger..." has nothing to do with the facts of the story.
The major problem with this story is that the British press will once again resort to rabid jingoism. Not once have I heard the name Michael Foale without the prefix "British-born". See what I mean on the BBC. I mean at no point do they mention that Alexander Kaleri was born in Latvia. Do they?
FFS he left the UK 1983... and I really don't care where he was born. It's not important, has no relevance, and is bloody annoying.
Seems to me that 75% of these suggestions are pure nonsense. Most are wishful thinking, are down to individuals (not the "powers that be") to amend their behaviour, or apply only to one part of the world. The rest seem to indicate a distinct lack of joined-up thinking. Take this one:
46 Free the Beeb The BBC is dragging its feet on a plan to put its vast archives online. Come on, chaps, it's your best idea since Monty Python.
Aunty really really wants to put it's archive online. But the legal issues are vast - it's going to take years to sort out. Yes, it's a pity, but we may as well wish for an end to copyright, the death of money, and world peace.
England is working on a remote control for cars...
What a damn stoopid idea. I mean when we all have personal jet-packs, the police will be left with all this useless technology. We should develop remote control chips for people... Much more cost effective... Indeed don't see people being obsoleted by robotic consumers for at least 100 years. It should also help at election time to prevent voter apathy, and people from voting for the wrong party.
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Murdoch Senior had a nasty habit at kicking the BBC in a similar manner. Nice to see Junior hasn't bothered to develop his own consciousness and has merely cloned his dad's. Seriously these rants translate as little more than a vain attempt to undermine the competition with cheap rhetoric designed to increase profit and feed ignorance. I mean when Dad's worth an estimated $4 billion world domination is about the only thing left to try, and the BBC as an a mostly impartial and independent media service is obviously standing in the way.
Anyone who is in any way swayed by Murdoch Junior's argument needs to read Noam Chomsky's book Manufacturing Consent and then needs to wake up to the fact that the BBC is perhaps the one media outlet that stands in the way of the frightening picture this book paints. After all the BBC is in a different industry in that they're about providing media to their audiences and news to the public, not audiences to their advertisers and propaganda to their punters.
Free will? Really?
I have an Atom here requesting recognition under the United Nations Universal Declaration of Rights. It's Hydrogen in a three way indeterminate state right now. I is currently uncertain what this means. Whatever the case it's got the power to go bang!
I'm with Virgin, so far all the download music I have is 'legal', but simply reading about this has me wondering how I could go about downloading illegal music to bring myself to their attention. Not that I especially wish to download illegal music. However, ISPs doing thing like this has me itching to cross the line, because it's simply so wrong. That said, I wonder if announcements like this don't make ISPs legally liable... after all, ISPs that don't spy on customers packets can claim neutrality, ISPs that do simply can't.
Of course ISPs in the UK are so caught up with their lack of bandwidth they are trying to get the BBC to cough up cash to expand their networks to cope with the traffic 'caused by iPlayer'. Odd that, the capability to do what the marketing has always claimed now exists and the suits are now crying foul.
As for the suits; I've found more acceptable forms of life stuck to the bottom of my boots.
Okay I claim prior art on "Wireless Wire";
Been banging on about it for years;
But it's Heinlen who really gets the award;
Waldo and Magic inc.;
Me? I've got a problem with Dark Matter.
And I've built a quantum interface 10 chars long and three wide and can operate in just three dimensions;
I'm currently working on the psychology of GSVs;
I'll need to add a fourth dimension to get volume, but it works.
If Safari becomes the default browser on these systems, you end up with critical vulnerabilities in a browser installed on non-tech-savvy individuals' computers.
Making it a perfect swap out replacement for IE then.
Seriously though, Apple's behaviour here is industry standard for the Windows world. So the story behind the story is actually Bitching and Whinging Confirms: Morons Without Clue Continue To Use Critically Vulnerable OS Family.
What's this going to do to the place where your mind lives? I only ask because in my universe this flip has already happened. Reality is broken, causality works in both directions, events in the past cause things in the future as before, but now I can see events in the future causing things in the past. I hear voices which come to me through the eternal now; and when I go looking I can see additional messages encoded within "fictional media". Simply trying to overcome the memetic virus embeded in my consciousness by my upbringing (you'd probably know it as Judeo-Christian religion) had me throwing myself of a bridge convinced I was the reincarnation of Judas. And when I discovered 'the beast' I found myself able to shapeshift, percieve the future, bend space and time, and unlock the secrets of the unconscious.
And if you think I've merely been watching Heroes and gotten confused, this all kicked off months before that show started, but somehow I've gotten entangled with it. The oddest thing in that regard has to be the conversation I had with the voice of Malcom McDowell then having him crop up as Mr Linderman several days later.
I do have an explination, but you're not going to like it.
Personally I simply wish I could fix my teeth so I could come to terms with all this without the distraction.
> Everybody needs to stop looking at operating systems as a religious issue and discuss things rationally
Could not agree more.
And when igniting a holy war we need to do so tactfully and with respect for the opinions of others.
And when we are done we should embrace in the spirit of brotherly love and agree that both sides benefit from such discourse.
Hell, only a fool would accept a single source as authoritative. Wikipedia is great as a starting point, but then Googling is required to authoritatively ensure you're not passing along bogus info.
In short, over the years I've seen all sorts of communications technology (email, IM, cell phones, and so on) being blamed for various social maladies.
I think they do cause maladies. And they will continue to do so. Until we all develop the knack of ignoring things... and the realisation that being ignored does not imply rudeness.
> He says that the trick is to make the technology work for you
It seems to me the human race is hopeless at putting technology to work. Indeed, we'd rather we let technology put us to work.
An amusing anecdote to highlight the point.
I was standing in a queue at the doctors the other day, waiting to make an appointment. Only every time the phone rang the recepionist get flustersd and would take the call, and the queue got larger. Ten minutes I stood there. So I pulled out my mobile (getting several dirty looks and the odd outraged whisper from others in the queue)... When I finally got through asking for seven appointments shocked the receptionist somewhat. When I explaind I was calling on behalf of the queue which was right in front of her she was more than a little annoyed with me. But at least she stopped answering the phone.
Now. It seems to me that the receptionist was all to eager to let technology to dictate her behaviour. And in the process got stressed. A little bit of thought and she could have taken control... and been happy.
> He says that the trick is to make the technology work for you
It seems to me the human race is hopeless at putting technology to work. Indeed, we'd rather we let technology put us to work.
An amusing anecdote to highlight the point.
I was standing in a queue at the doctors the other day, waiting to make an appointment. Only every time the phone rang the recepionist would take the call, and the queue got larger. Ten minutes I stood there. So I pulled out my mobile (getting several dirty looks and the odd outraged whisper from others in the queue)... When I finally got through asking for seven appointments shocked the receptionist somewhat. When I explaind I was calling on behalf of the queue which was right in front of her she was more than a little annoyed with me. But at least she stopped answering the phone.
Now. It seems to me that the receptionist was all to eager to let technology to dictate her behaviour. And in the process got stressed. A little bit of thought and she could have taken control... and been happy.
WHY OH WHY are the only fuckers who realise this not resident in the UK? the public tide in this country (UK) is more anti than pro, and Labour/TB have been doing their level best to destroy the BBC's credibility*.
Personally I think the anti-BBC sentiment is spin. And just who who are the biggest spinners in the country? And which government friendly media mogul dislikes competition with the Beeb?
Most people I know think the BBC is good for us. Yet, sadly, most people I know also believe what they're told by the media. So they truly believe the majority of public opinion is anti-BBC.
Which leaves poor old Aunty rather defenceless when President Blair comes along with his chopper.
any excuse to spread hate
It seems to me that the religions of the world exist merely to provide people with reasons to hate - it's what they do best. So picking on the lil' beastie is to be expected. Sad, but expected.
frankly I'm sick of it.
Me too.
Reading the article, one of the reasons for the change is: Has negative cultural, and religious ramifications.
Then under the judgement criteria: "Due to the issues identified above, the current NetBSD daemon character cannot be used. " and "It must be distinctive in the quality and originality of its visual image and not offend any national, cultural or religious sensitivity."
So I'd say, having read the article, that the NetBSD crowd consider the lil' beastie IS an issue.
Hitting them directly for routine queries is wasteful, inconsiderate, and expensive.
But could you not also say that running your own cache at the end of a leased line is better than everyone in your network querying your ISP to resolve every request?
I'd say it's cacheing and reasonable TTLs that contribute most to reducing the load on the DNS. But I've met DNS administrators who didn't have a clue about TTLs, setting them to "300" to make sure data that had not changed in years would always be "fresh". I've even seen implementations on DNS from an SQL DB that didnt even support the changing of the TTL.
Of course, ideally, you'd set your cache to forward first.
DNS time > Unix time... a lot of DNS systems (bind does this for example) will take the record with the largest number
But surely this applies only to the secondaries that transfer via AXFR? Most people deny general AXFRs and add explicit IPs of those who can, so they should know EXACTLY who needs to refresh the zones manually.
A couple of years ago I switched two standard DNS clusters onto a third unix epoch based DNS with no problems.
"Bread and circuses." A tried and tested method of keeping the population in line.
In the very same article you link to, they state "US mission commander Michael Foale" and "Russian colleague Alexander Kaleri".
Ooooh! I knew it! Just you... oooooh! I will you know, I WILL! I just knew somebody would mention that. I did. Just you wait. Ooooh!
Gaffer's tape is completely different from Duct Tape.
Yes it is isnt it. Which is why I mentioned it not.
I may have foolishly used a possessive apostrophe where one was not called for ("it's") for which I'll obviously burn in hell. But I never once referred to the tape of the Gaffer. Although, confusingly, a Gaffer is an electrician, and the sparks are are always a good bet for obtaining a roll of gaffa.
Unfortunately, patching a leak in a space station is somewhat similar to taping a duct. And the only thing that duct tape is bad for is taping ducts
Which is why people who know call it by it's correct name "Gaffa Tape". Or simply "gaffa".
The rest of the world would call it gaffa tape too if only we could stop the persistent bickering on whether gaffa is spelt "gaffa" or "gaffer". Internecine battles asside, gaffa is without a doubt the most useful substance in the universe.
I'm sure it's not a major problem. And I'm sure it will be fixed soon. So "oh Bugger..." has nothing to do with the facts of the story.
The major problem with this story is that the British press will once again resort to rabid jingoism. Not once have I heard the name Michael Foale without the prefix "British-born". See what I mean on the BBC. I mean at no point do they mention that Alexander Kaleri was born in Latvia. Do they?
FFS he left the UK 1983... and I really don't care where he was born. It's not important, has no relevance, and is bloody annoying.
Seems to me that 75% of these suggestions are pure nonsense. Most are wishful thinking, are down to individuals (not the "powers that be") to amend their behaviour, or apply only to one part of the world. The rest seem to indicate a distinct lack of joined-up thinking. Take this one:
46 Free the Beeb The BBC is dragging its feet on a plan to put its vast archives online. Come on, chaps, it's your best idea since Monty Python.
Aunty really really wants to put it's archive online. But the legal issues are vast - it's going to take years to sort out. Yes, it's a pity, but we may as well wish for an end to copyright, the death of money, and world peace.
Is there a good listing of all the ports and what they do?
/usr/ports/INDEX
I know a script could be written to searchcd /usr/ports/
make search key=foo
Or, in answer to both your questions, try the FreeBSD website
England is working on a remote control for cars...
What a damn stoopid idea. I mean when we all have personal jet-packs, the police will be left with all this useless technology. We should develop remote control chips for people... Much more cost effective... Indeed don't see people being obsoleted by robotic consumers for at least 100 years. It should also help at election time to prevent voter apathy, and people from voting for the wrong party.